The Build Studio | Salik Riyaz

Case studyEntrepreneurship / Web development

Zoonigia Pvt. Ltd.

Building a home for frontier science and interdisciplinary learning.

Role

Founder and web developer

Salik Riyaz

01 · Founding vision

A place to begin exploring.

I founded Zoonigia Pvt. Ltd. to make frontier sciences and interdisciplinary STEAM opportunities more accessible to underserved communities.

02 · Website & technical development

Building its home on the web.

I independently coded the company’s website.

03 · Workshops & science outreach

Science, within reach.

Through Zoonigia, I helped bring science workshops to schools. The organization’s outreach also included collaborative programs where people could take part in scientific work together.

Moments from a Zoonigia workshop

A presenter holds a microphone beside a projected Zoonigia introduction slide. — 01 · Introducing Zoonigia

Workshop photograph: a participant looking through a telescope. — A glimpse of Zoonigia’s science outreach.
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Rows of students seated at desks during a classroom workshop. — 02 · In the classroom

A participant bends toward a telescope eyepiece as a presenter and other participants look on outdoors. — 03 · At the eyepiece

Students gather around a telescope while a presenter gestures beside the instrument. — 04 · Demonstrating the instrument

A participant wears a virtual reality headset while others gather around during a Zoonigia workshop. — 05 · Exploring virtual realityA participant experiences VR while others gather around during the Zoonigia workshop.

A student looks through the telescope eyepiece while another student waits nearby. — 06 · Looking for yourself

04 · Collaborative science

Zoonigia Asteroid Search Campaign

Participants came together through Zoonigia to take part in an asteroid search in the context of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC).

This organizational campaign is distinct from my individual research and team-leadership contributions. Candidate reports require follow-up before they can be described as discoveries.

Read my asteroid-search account in EXPLORE ↗

Campaign context: participation in the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC). An introduction, rather than a record of confirmed discoveries.

Zoonigia · IASC participation context

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From the archive · An introduction to Zoonigia

An archival introduction to the organization’s vision.

Zoonigia

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