Education Programmes
HICS's education programmes bring instruments, data, and real scientific practice directly into schools. Some of it you can use today: every IESH station carries an offline learning portal — 25+ curriculum-aligned activities, Grades 6 and up — and the same modules are free for any teacher under Learning Resources. The structured programmes below launch from 2026–27; registering interest now helps shape them.
Programmes
Free learning resources
Freely available for teachers, students, and anyone who wants to understand the science behind the instruments and data. Download them, use them, adapt them.
Curriculum modules
Climate & Atmosphere
Temperature, humidity, pressure, and altitude: how the atmosphere works, how Nepal's geography shapes its climate, and how long-term measurement connects to the climate crisis. Activities run on live readings from the station.
Soil
Soil moisture and temperature: why soil holds water, how it drives agriculture, and how to calibrate — and learn to trust — a sensor you set up yourself.
Air Quality
Carbon monoxide and gas sensing, what an air-quality index actually means, why a proxy must be labelled a proxy, and how Kathmandu's air changes through the day.
Data Science
Statistics on real sensor streams: averages, ranges, trends, and anomalies — and the question of what a single station can and cannot tell you.
Environment
Ecology, altitude zones, and environmental policy, grounded in measurements from the place where you live rather than examples from somewhere else.
Instrument build guides
Scientific computing
Python tutorials using real HICS environmental data. Each notebook is ready to download and run.
Notebooks are in preparation — built on real HICS data, from the same open source. They will appear here when they exist, not before.
Open knowledge
All of HICS's public outputs exist for the world, not only for enrolled students. Data is open, designs are open-source, curricula are free.