01 About

A place where different minds collide.

Not just a competition.

RSIC starts from a simple observation: the most interesting problems don't respect subject boundaries. A question about climate policy is also a question about chemistry, economics and public trust. A courtroom argument is also a piece of theatre. A neural network is also a philosophy of mind.

So RSIC brings STEM into the same room as law, sociology, psychology, and film and drama. Not as a gesture toward "well-roundedness," but because that's closer to how real problems actually behave.

RSIC is run by students. For 2026 the event heads are Khadija Akbar and Sabika Ali, with Laveazay Qasim Khan as executive director, and it all happens from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 November, starting at 1:45 PM PKT.

Think. Test. Create. Repeat.

The idea

Why it exists.

Most competitions ask you to be good at one thing. RSIC asks what happens when eleven different ways of thinking are pointed at the same room, the same weekend, the same pressure.

01 · Collision

Different disciplines, same floor.

A mathematician and a drama student end up in adjacent rooms, not separate events. That proximity is the point.

02 · Rigor

Judged like it matters.

Every realm has its own standard of evidence. A proof, a working prototype, a case, a performance. Held to a real bar.

03 · Curiosity

The unscheduled kind.

Some of what happens at RSIC isn't in the programme. That's intentional. Curiosity doesn't run on a timetable.

04 · Consequence

Ideas that go somewhere.

Work made under pressure, in front of judges, with a result attached. Not a simulation of stakes, but the real thing.

The line-up

Eleven disciplines.

Each realm is its own world, with its own rules. None of them are decoration for the others. Every one is judged on its own terms, by people who take that discipline seriously.