Science Fuse / spark your neurons

This summer we’re working with Pakistan’s finest artist & her colleagues at to bring you a Summer Camp for 8 - 12 year olds where children learn how to express their thoughts & ideas!

During the 2-week long program, children explore hands-on Science Inquiry in the most fun way possible while also exploring the world of theatre.

We’re camping at Downtown in Gulberg, Lahore.

Our holiday STEAM programs nurture children’s confidence to investigate, explore & think critically. They get to do All of this while building social skills, and nurturing a sense of belonging in science!

This year they get a chance to be mentored directly by Kanwal Khoosat to learn the art of storytelling!

We’re keeping it small with only 25 children. To book a slot, DM or WhatsApp us at 0333-1217721 Lahore!

Over the past three weeks our Master Trainer has been spending every Friday inside a classroom at ’s newly built Center of Excellence for Disability Inclusion in Korangi, Karachi.

She is bringing Science Fuse’s hands-on STEAM curriculum to NOWPDP’s neurodiverse learners as part of our joint project: STEAM Together. 🌸

We’ve worked with NOWPDP’s wonderful school teachers & children with disabilities earlier but this is our first long-term partnership with a partner that reimagines inclusion with every single project since it came into being in 2008.

STEAM Together is our 3-Month program that aims to rethink what it means to make children with disabilities feel a sense of belonging in science.

Every week our group of neurodiverse learners explore science through a play-based & sensory STEAM curriculum designed by our core team & customised for their needs in partnership with NOWPDP’s expert educators.

We’re proud to be partnering with an organisation that supports our vision of making “science sab kay liye” and in this program apart from students, we’re also working closely to build the capacity of resident educators at NOWPDP. So that they can carry this work forward independently with many more students.

This post is only the 1st chapter! Stay with us as we keep sharing more stories from this journey, the people shaping it & what this partnership is continuing to teach us. 🍃

🎈What if science wasn’t just something you studied… but something you performed, felt, and lived?

This summer the Performing Science Summer Camp brings Science Fuse & together to help children explore science through theatre, storytelling, and creativity especially with Miss 🍃

This learning experience is for children aged 7–12 | from June 8–19 | at Daftarkhwan Downtown Gulberg, Lahore. 🌸✨

Because science is not just learned, it is lived. Register using the link in Bio or simply WhatsApp at:
0333 121-7721 or 0321 128-8701.

We celebrated Mothers’ Day yesterday, and it felt like an important moment to talk about something that lies at the heart of our work at Science Fuse: broadening who counts as a scientist and what counts as science.

Have you ever stopped to think about how often our mothers use STEM skills, both inside and outside the home?

Many of us in Pakistan have grown up watching our mothers cook, budget, mend clothes, repair things, grow plants, organise resources, solve problems, and make countless decisions every single day.

Outside the home, women have long been working in hospitals, schools, farms, factories, salons, newsrooms, and so many other spaces. When your mother cooks the perfect biryani or bakes a birthday cake, she is using STEM skills: measuring ingredients, testing methods & machines, adjusting based on experience, and working with precision and observation.

At Science Fuse, we often say that all of us already have a relationship with science and science sarmaya. The problem is that many of the skills women use every day, measuring, budgeting, gardening, fixing, observing, tinkering, are rarely recognised as “real” STEM skills.

But NOT all scientists wear lab coats. Some wear aprons at home. And they are still exercising STEM skills every day. Why does this conversation matter? Because the moment we begin recognising these skills as STEM skills, we begin changing who feels seen, valued, and capable of belonging in science.

We begin shifting science from something distant and elite into something human, familiar, and already present in people’s lives. Even beyond conventional STEM fields, women working in agriculture, education, journalism, the beauty industry, film, and many other sectors are constantly observing, testing, analysing, collaborating, and iterating based on what they learn.

When we broaden what counts as science, more people, especially women and young girls will begin to see themselves as capable of participating in it, shaping it, and leading within it.

“Doing” science can look pretty!

It doesn’t have to be dull of boring. At Science Fuse we make learning & teaching science a joyful & equitable experience.

We want everyone no matter who they are to feel that they can belong in science. Those who like to dress up, wear jhumkas & those with diverse abilities.

We’re broadening who counts as a scientist. For us 12 year old Gul Rukh is a scientist & so is a physicist like Nergis Mavalvala.

We’re also broadening “what” counts as science. Play is science, tehqeeq is science, exploration & finding answers to questions also counts as science! When we cook, bake, plant, fix, mend or tinker we’re engaging with science! ✨🍃🌸🫧💥

Tell us how you engage with science in your daily life?

Most people say they care about equity in education.
Few can walk into a room and make others care enough to act.

We’re hiring those few.

This is an entry-level role based in Karachi. It entails nurturing partnerships with organisations working in underserved communities and turning those conversations into funded science learning programs for children and teachers.

You will be speaking to schools, NGOs, and organisations that may not know Science Fuse yet. Your job is to help them understand who we are, what we do, and how our work can support the underserved communities they serve.

We are looking for someone who is willing to start from scratch, learn on the job, and take ownership of relationships that take time to build.

How to Apply
Read the full JD before applying (link in bio)

Apply via form in bio

WhatsApp / Email: 0321 128 8701 | [email protected]

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From packing standees to collecting stories. From trying something new to becoming part of the space.

We’ve been part of this festival movement since 2016 — back when it was the Children’s Literature Festival. Watching it grow into the Pakistan Literature Festival - - and growing alongside it, has been quite a journey.

Here’s a little then vs. now: the things that changed, and the things that stayed the same.

We’re heading to PLF Lahore on 21st & 22nd April | 9 AM – 4 PM PKT at the Civil Services Academy, Walton Road.

Come find us & our Gul Rukh 🌸✨🍃💕
Come engage with science through our interactive Science Tamasha.

Will you be there? Entry is free. Bring your students, grandparents, teachers - ہم اپ کے منتظر رہیں گے

This is the power of community 🍃 which is why we’ve always focused on nurturing a community around our mission. And our community shows up when it matters the most!

Here’s a reintroduction of our mission: “we work to make science learning experiences equitable for those who are often left out with an aim to enhance their Science Capital (Sarmaya)”.

We design & deliver inspiring STEAM educational programs for teachers, children & young people from low-income households, girls, children with disabilities & those who’re persecuted or come from minority backgrounds. To make them feel a sense of belonging in science.

We nurture Science Sarmaya which goes beyond getting good grades in school.

Science Capital or Sarmaya is a collection of science-related knowledge, experiences, skills, attitudes & social connections a person builds over time through school, family, work & everyday life. The more science sarmata you gather over time, research says the more you will be able to confidently use STEM skills & succeed in life.

We’re deeply grateful for community members like who’re willing to walk on this path with us, so that we don’t feel alone.

Without Zahra, & coming together, we could not have curated JHOOM.

This is our first ever fundraising event so it will always stay special in our hearts & memories. But we’re not stopping here. We need YOU all to nurture the Science Sarmaya of 50 million children in Pakistan 🇵🇰 & beyond.

Lahore thank you for your generosity. This event is now closed for bookings, it’s sold out. All proceeds from the tickets will go directly towards our project “Healing through Science” where we will engage with children battling cancer & other ailments in hospitals.

This project will unfold at the hospitals for the next 2 years in Karachi & Lahore, engaging almost 100 children each month. Shukrya ♥️🙏

A madrasa rooftop in Islamabad. A community centre in Lahore. A foster care home where children asked some of the most thoughtful questions we’ve heard.

Over the past few weeks, Science Fuse’s spring fellows have been taking our Science Tamasha into spaces where science rarely arrives like this — not as a lesson, but as an equitable learning experience.

In Islamabad, Sayyeda Maryam Fatima & Faiza Sayyed engaged 54 students on a Madrassas’s rooftop. At first students assumed this would be another routine science class. But as soon as the experiments began, something shifted.

The anti-gravity water activity held everyone in place — focused & surprised. And when the wind disrupted the bubble experiment, instead of stepping back, students leaned in, offering their own ideas to make it work.

In Lahore, Anusheh Mahmood, Anum Shafi & Manahil Aanas led a session at the Altaf Mahmood Foundation for children aged 7–17. At first, when asked who considered themselves a scientist, no one responded. But the shift was gradual — through questions, small experiments, and moments of participation — until, by the end, every child confidently said they were a scientist!

At Holistic Foster Care in Lahore, fellows Fajr, Swaleha and Aleena spent the day with children whose curiosity was unfiltered. One girl said she wanted to become a doctor because doctors couldn’t save her father. Another shared she wanted to become Chief Minister Punjab to help stop child kidnapping in her area.

In line with the equity-focused training our fellows receive, they were intentional about ensuring participation was not dependent on mobility or ease of access — even when a child with an injured ankle was unable to move freely, the team brought the experiments to him so he could remain fully part of the experience.

Seen in these photos are powerful moments: children asking questions without hesitation, experiments failing and being tried again, and fellows learning just as much as they were teaching. ✨

What happens when ideas travel across borders?

Sometimes they turn into laughter-filled classrooms in Kathmandu. 🇳🇵

Science Fuse’s work is now expanding beyond Pakistan. 🌍 We’re engaging with organisations & practitioners in the UK, parts of Asia, and beyond. In the coming months, we’ll be sharing stories of how our community members and team have been travelling across the world to share our work and our stories of impact.

We’ve been exchanging knowledge & stories of lived experiences with teachers, children, and young people from different countries — and in some cases, people from other parts of the world have travelled to visit us in Lahore to witness & support our mission.

Our first story in this series begins in Nepal, through our collaboration with

At a time when the world often feels divided, we believe borders should not separate us — they should connect us. South Asian countries share enormous potential and similar challenges. When we exchange knowledge and lived experiences, we can co-create solutions together.

Smart Cheli works in Nepal to introduce young girls — and boys — to science and technology, especially robotics and coding, in underserved communities.

Through this collaboration, the Smart Cheli team took our curriculum of hands-on experiments to hundreds of students across Kathmandu. 🙏🇳🇵💕👏

Browse through these photos and notice the smiles, the curiosity, and the excitement in Nepal’s classrooms!

These small experiments turned classrooms into spaces of discovery — where science felt less distant and more accessible.