Work with HICS

We are forming the first IESH school cohort for 2026–27: a small number of schools that host a station and work with us as the first real users. A host school gets a working environmental station, the onboard learning portal — 25+ curriculum-aligned activities that run with no internet — a teacher orientation, and its own station on this site with public, citable data. We ask for a safe mounting spot, power, one teacher who wants to own it, and the patience of working with a prototype that is still improving.

Private schools, NGOs, and institutions can commission a built, calibrated, supported IESH station, a science camp, or a school residency programme. We build on commission — typically half advance, half on delivery — rather than selling from stock. HICS is currently a very small team with a workshop, so we take on few commissions at a time and do each one properly.

The deployments that matter most are the ones least able to pay for themselves. A sponsorship covers the hardware, transport, installation, a teacher training day, and first-year maintenance for a station at a rural school — starting with the schools we have worked with for years in Dolpo. The station's data is public and citable, the sponsorship is acknowledged on the station's page, and spending is reported in our annual transparency reports.

HICS offers what is hard to build from outside Nepal: established community relationships, high-altitude field logistics, locally built and locally repairable instrumentation, and validation environments up to 4,000 m. Visiting researchers and partner institutions get field access and infrastructure; HICS gets technical depth and co-authorship. All resulting data is published open (CC BY 4.0).

Educational deployments expand the research-grade sensing grid; research services and commissions fund educational accessibility. Where we actually are: company registered (2026), KTM-001 station live in Kathmandu, the IESH v0.1 prototype field-tested (sensors, offline logging, onboard learning portal), a thermal sensor array being installed at 4,000 m in Dolpo, and a muon detector in bench development. We are looking for pilot funding, component funding for reference-grade air-quality modules, and partners to validate the model with us.