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School Science Residency Programme

Multi-day visits to schools combining planetarium sessions, instrument workshops, data exploration, and teacher training.
Planned

Audience: Schools, primarily outside Kathmandu

Science that arrives at the school

The School Science Residency brings HICS to schools — especially those far from Kathmandu — for several days at a time. It is not a visit with a slide deck: students step inside a portable planetarium, build and use real instruments, analyse live data, and their teachers are trained alongside them. Every residency leaves something behind, and begins a relationship that lasts.

2–3days
on site
immersive, not a one-off visit
planetarium
+ instruments
the night sky and real measurement
lasting
relationship
data access and support continue after
Planetarium sessions

The portable dome brings the night sky indoors — constellations from Nepal's own latitude, planetary motion, and Nepali astronomical traditions.

Instrument workshop

Students build and use real sensors, seeing how measurement actually works rather than reading about it.

Data analysis

Hands-on work with live HICS data — the same datasets researchers use.

Teacher training

Teachers are trained during the residency so the science continues long after HICS leaves.

Current status

Launching 2026–27, alongside the portable planetarium build. Schools outside Kathmandu are the priority. Get in touch to register interest.

→ info@himalayansciences.org
Subject: School residency