A permanent home for STEM in Gilgit-Baltistan
A building that stays open throughout the year, in Hunza. Four zones under one winterised, solar-powered roof.
Ability was never the constraint. Infrastructure is.
Gilgit-Baltistan produces capable students, then loses them to a broken pipeline and a closed door for women.
No purpose-driven STEM or skills
Unreliable internet
A narrow sense of what is possible
A building that stays open throughout the year
Purpose-built, four zones, on a 25-year land lease
With 20 kWh storage and hybrid inverters
Insulation, double glazing and heating throughout
Workstations, AV and fabrication tools
Each zone can carry a purpose
STEM Racing Learning Hub
Creator Lab
Incubation Sandbox
AI Centre
A five-course pathway: curious, to capable, to building
- 01
CAD — Parametric Design & Analysis
Design theory and material selection through SolidWorks modeling and stress analysis.
- 02
Electronics & Embedded Systems
Circuits, microcontrollers and sensors, where CAD becomes a functioning device.
- 03
STEM Racing
Entry into the F1-endorsed international STEM Racing competition, run in 60+ countries.
- 04
AI-Assisted Programming
Modern AI tools used the way working engineers actually use them.
- 05
Mechatronic Project
The cohort takes a real-world challenge and applies everything it has learned to build a feasible solution.
Students come to Hunza from across Pakistan
The STEM Racing lab is open to students nationally through a paid fifteen-day immersion. City students work alongside Hunza students; the fees reinvest into free places for the valley. Every cohort, every competition entry and every hosted event carries the hub’s name — and the sponsor’s — to schools and families well beyond Gilgit-Baltistan.
Countries in STEM Racing
National immersion in Hunza
Students per class section
PKR 44.31M, fully equipped and ready to occupy
- Land, 25-year commercial leasePKR 6,000,000
- Construction, 5,800 sq ft at PKR 2,500/sq ftPKR 14,500,000
- Solar, 20 kW array with 20 kWh storagePKR 2,000,000
- Winterisation, insulation and heatingPKR 1,500,000
- Furniture and fitout, all zonesPKR 3,000,000
- Landscaping, drainage and pathsPKR 1,000,000
- Water supply, tank, pump and septicPKR 700,000
- Design, structural, seismic and approvalsPKR 1,500,000
- STEM Racing lab equipment and trackPKR 1,500,000
- Year 1 staffing, 12-month runwayPKR 5,040,000
- IT and tech equipmentPKR 5,570,000
- Contingency, 12%PKR 2,000,000
- Fully equipped, in PKRPKR 44,310,000
READY TO OCCUPY
PKR 38.74M
+ PKR 5.57M IT and tech equipment
From year two, the hub’s paid national track carries a growing share of running costs.
What the Trustee will have stood behind by 2036
Free places for Gilgit-Baltistan students, growing from 50–75 in cohort one
Students travelling to Hunza on the national immersion track
Target share of places held for girls and young women
Student ventures supported through the incubation sandbox
Each year the sponsor receives a written impact report: cohort intake and completion, projects built, competition results, girls’ participation, and photography cleared for their own reporting.
Figures are projections modelled on the published three-year roadmap and its regional expansion, not results to date.
Meet the team
Zain Abid
Help us build the hub, and put your name on it for fifteen years
PKR 55M. PKR 44.31M builds and equips the hub; the balance runs it through year three. Across eleven sponsorship positions, each with fifteen-year naming rights.
Sponsorship terms, naming schedule and fund administration are confirmed in a written agreement at contracting.
Zain Abid, Founder, E47 Foundation · +92 332 786 0017