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Science Fuse / spark your neurons Science Fuse is a Pakistan based social enterprise working to promote STEM education among young leaders

Science Fuse is a social enterprise working to promote STEM education among young learners. Our goal is to make science research an equally viable choice for youngsters to pursue in leisure time as is perhaps indulging in sports, music and arts. To this end we offer young students a unique opportunity to learn science by ‘doing’ at our summer camps, extracurricular science workshops and after-school science clubs. Our mission is to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers, to engage the wider public with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) as part of popular culture, and to strengthen connection between researchers and the public.

💥Science does NOT have to be expensive!🎈What if the starting point of science education isn’t technology but is nurturin...
08/09/2026

💥Science does NOT have to be expensive!
🎈What if the starting point of science education isn’t technology but is nurturing curiosity using ordinary materials?

In these pictures you can see how our summer fellows are learning how to make science engagement inquiry-based using low-cost materials.

There is growing conversation about AI, technology & the skills children will need for the future. Yes, they need those things.

But Scientists at the Royal Society of Chemistry recommend that primary school children should have the opportunity to do simple things like play with clay, knead dough & make ice cream. These don’t require expensive gadgets.

They claim that adding these essential experiences to the primary curriculum will help reduce inequalities in science education while helping children learn fundamental scientific concepts that they should understand at this age.

In Pakistan 26 million children are out of school & 51 million receive subpar science education. Our schools lack resources to buy expensive gadgets, train teachers & build laboratories.

Which is why Science Fuse fellows reflect on HOW we can design a STEAM curriculum that enables children to INQUIRE but doesn’t cost a fortune.

Science Fuse is trying to figure out a solution to make science education equitable- a solution that is BIG, CHEAP, GOOD & SIMPLE enough to scale.

Because a solution that is designed only for the privileged few is not a good enough solution. 💥

We’re sharing this insight as our Summer Fellowship is underway.This year, our Summer Fellows are taking what they’re le...
02/09/2026

We’re sharing this insight as our Summer Fellowship is underway.

This year, our Summer Fellows are taking what they’re learning and putting it into practice. They are curating and delivering 3-day Summer Holiday Workshops, pro bono, for children with fewer opportunities to experience hands-on science and learning.

So while we talk about how we nurture leadership, these photographs show our fellows actually doing it: stepping into new spaces, working with children, figuring things out, making mistakes, and learning along the way.

For us, this is an important part of leadership — not just learning something new, but using what you have learnt to create opportunities for someone else.

29/08/2026

Children in hospital spend so much of their time being patients. We wanted to make room for them to be children, too.

Our Project, Healing With Science began in 2020, during COVID, with the .

We started bringing play-based science to children battling cancer at Indus Kay Sitaray School, and for years created a little space for learning, making, wondering and play alongside their treatment.

We had to pause the project for a few months last year. Then Sophia and her friends — Misha, Saba, Moiz, Armna, Zahra and Tashifa — stepped forward as Science Fuse Dosts and raised funds to bring this work back into hospital wards.

But it wasn’t only the seven of them. So many people from our wider Science Fuse community donated, shared the campaign, encouraged us and helped us raise more than we had set out to. Today 5 months have passed since this project restarted and we are grateful to each one of you! 🙏🌸💕

YOUR support allowed us to sign an MOU with the brilliant teams at Indus Hospital & Health Network and expand Healing with Science from Karachi to include Lahore.

Five months on, children battling cancer and other illnesses are receiving not just care, but regular monthly to learn, play, create and reclaim some of their childhood every month through our program.

This is only a glimpse. Over the next few hours, we’ll start sharing a mini report from Healing with Science, followed by more stories from the project over the coming week.

And then, it’s time for Science Fuse Dost 2.0 — because there is more work we want to make possible, together. ❤️ Please stay with us to learn about the next project we aspire to fundraise for with your support. Shukrya.

| .khan | | Misha Khan | | |

We are grateful to you all. We are also extremely grateful to the wonderful teams at the Indus Hospitals in Lahore & Karachi for believing in this work & for supporting it wholeheartedly. A lot of gratitude especially to our dost from the Indus team! 🙏

Don’t ever shy away from celebrating your work & its impact no matter at which stage you’re at in your journey.This is P...
26/08/2026

Don’t ever shy away from celebrating your work & its impact no matter at which stage you’re at in your journey.

This is Part 1 of our “Kinda Chic” series because honestly we have SO much more to celebrate 🥳 after spending a decade working in Pakistan against all odds! It hasn’t been an easy path to take but we stuck to it. And we have so much more to build.

Dear Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) Teach For Pakistan Jacqueline Novogratz PYCA _shayanmoazzam_ Aleena Baloch NOWPDP Deaf Reach The Happieee Place Sana Nasir sana Umair Najeeb Khan | Illustrator MaRia-WHY Books Falling Walls Foundation TDF MagnifiScience Centre National History Museum Indus Hospital & Health Network thank you for these wonderful memories & for all the work we co-created together!

What does it take to build something that can travel beyond the people who first create it?At Science Fuse, we’ve been t...
25/08/2026

What does it take to build something that can travel beyond the people who first create it?

At Science Fuse, we’ve been thinking a lot about this — how we can make our approach to inquiry-based science teaching simple, good and cheap enough to travel, while still being strong enough to change what happens in classrooms.

Umme Rubab’s story is one small glimpse of what that can look like. Swipe to read. ❤️

Pakistan has more than 2.6 million teachers. If we want to change how 71 million children experience education, we have ...
24/08/2026

Pakistan has more than 2.6 million teachers. If we want to change how 71 million children experience education, we have to think seriously about how we support the people teaching them.

After a decade of running STEM educational programs, we’re asking ourselves a harder question: are we just reaching more teachers, or are we building something that can travel far beyond us?

What would it take to build a solution that is simple, good and cheap enough to spread through the education system — and strong enough to actually change how teachers teach?

We don’t have the answer yet. But this question is changing how we think about our work.

In two hours, we’ll share Rubab’s story to give you all a small glimpse of what this thinking looks like in practice.

In our last post we told you how we spent our June & July. If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do & give it some ♥...
08/08/2026

In our last post we told you how we spent our June & July. If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do & give it some ♥️.

All our months are hectic but the last two were exceptionally busy because we ran multiple summer camps & had to travel to Skardu as well!

Our Core Team is based in Lahore & Karachi while our community of freelance Science Communicators are based all over Pakistan 🇵🇰 & globally around the world.

Work isn’t all that fills our days. In these photos catch our all-female core team members taking time in between work to take care of themselves, their pets, plants & loved ones! ♥️

In the first photo is our assistant project officer, Manahil with her dog Coco! Next you can catch our Head of Partnerships Shayan caring for her favourite plant. Madiha is next practicing her kathak moves. She has recently joined our team in Karachi as Project Officer. Hafsa is our Senior Project Officer in Lahore. She doesn’t like taking too many pictures but here is one of hers enjoying a meal! And last but not the least is our Founder & CEO, Lalah enjoying an ice lolly on a hot day!

We’ll be sharing more about who we are & what we get up to at work & otherwise soon. Stay with us. Enjoy your weekend.

The Science Fuse team & community have been building quietly behind the scenes these past two months and, honestly, we h...
07/08/2026

The Science Fuse team & community have been building quietly behind the scenes these past two months and, honestly, we haven’t had much time to post about it.

In June and July, we travelled from Skardu to Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, bringing science into hospitals, community centres, schools, workplaces and many summer programs.

We welcomed 34 new Fellows through our Summer cycle into our community, continued our monthly Healing With Science sessions for children undergoing cancer treatment at Indus Hospital & Health Network in Karachi and Lahore, and completed the first three months of our program with children with disabilities at NOWPDP in Karachi.

We also piloted a new kind of summer camp this year with support from the wonderful Kitabi Pulao team for the Shad Bagh community in Lahore, took practical STEM learning to 70 young girls through Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) and spent time with children of Foreign Office employees in Islamabad.

We also brought our science-and-art experiments to families at Siemens and children at Jelly Beans Daycare.

And somewhere in between all of that, we spent a week in Skardu with nine other social entrepreneurs as part of the Summit Fellowship organised by Taleemabad & the Mulago Foundation. This week was a chance to step back from the day-to-day operations and learn from people working on some of Pakistan’s most complex challenges.

So, this is our slightly overdue summer update. Swipe through for the news, the people and the moments we haven’t had a chance to share yet. 🌱

We will be sharing more news, updates and deeper stories from these engagements soon. Stay with us & have a lovely weekend!

19/07/2026

Join Science Fuse’s 1-Month long Summer Fellowship to transform Pakistan’s children’s relationship with Science. You don’t need a science degree to apply, only Jazba & Tajasus! Everyone in Pakistan & beyond who is 16 and above is eligible to apply.

Apply using the link in bio or simple DM us for details. You may also WhatsApp us at 0321-128-8701 and we’ll send the application form your way!

19/07/2026

This is a 1 minute 21 second reel. Turn the volume on and spare a minute to hear Hafsa Tauqir talk about Science Fuse’s recent collaborative work with Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) - supported by

A few days ago, we wrote about our decade-long partnership with ITA. More recently, we’ve been designing and delivering a STEM for Livelihood module for around 80 young women and girls from under-resourced communities in Lahore as part of ITA’s Sayani Saheliyaan 2.0 program.

Why STEM skills? And what do we even mean by them?

In this short video, our Senior Project Officer Hafsa offers a small glimpse into one of the aims of this project. But there were many more layers to our work together.

We began by reframing what science is, and who it belongs to. Before introducing anything new, we helped the girls recognise the Science Sarmaya (Science Capital) they already carry within them & then explored how they can keep nurturing it.

From there, we explored STEM skills such as tehqeeq (research) and the universality of these skills. They’re not just for doctors, engineers or people working in laboratories. Tehqeeq is a fundamentally transferable skill. It’s a powerful way of turning curiosity into understanding, and problems into solutions.

None of this was created in isolation. We co-designed this work with ITA’s team and reached these young women through their deep relationships with communities. We’re especially grateful to ITA’s founder, Baela Raza Jamil - - whose trust in our work made it possible to bring these ideas to life.

We’re also thankful to ITA’s Senior Program Manager and Science Fuse Advisory Council Member, Arooj Khalid, - for her constant guidance.

Stay with us as we unfold more layers of this project with you all. Here’s a big round of applause 👏 for our colleague Hafsa for her leadership & to our assistant project officer & fellow for supporting so well.

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