OQEAY was born out of a lunch discussion in the college between Sreya Krishnakumar and Anushka Adkar on science representation and communication through a better, artistic, and creative medium. The scientific field, being intrinsically detailed and complicated, filled with formulae, Latin names, and code blocks have a core that is born out of intense imagination, curiosity, observation, and its relativity to the objective world- traits that also encompasses most forms of art.
OQEAY expands to “Once, Question Everything Around You”, reflecting our main motto of delving into the very basic core every scientific discovery is built on- curiosity. We believe that science exists everywhere and is found when you look for it and ask the right questions. When everyone saw apples and rainfall to the ground day after passing day, Newton asked a simple question 'why' and that was how the concept of gravity came into the world. He went ahead and asked, 'why not? so we have classical mechanics, and another 'why not'; introduced us to laws of cooling, and today we have created satellites, discovered gravitational waves and invented car radiators out of them. When Kary Mullis was driving on the highway, he was stuck with the idea for the Polymerase Chain Reaction, which dominates medical diagnostics, therapeutics and forensic research today, and although Alexander Fleming might have had serendipity in his favour, what made penicillin a drug, saving millions of lives, was him simply
questioning, 'What is killing my bacteria?' Science is a temple of pondering, and at its altar is the art of questioning. At OQEAY, we make science inclusive. We are committed to adding art to science, and fluidity of how science is communicated to the student community- so every time you say OK, Once, Question Everything Around You and say OQEAY instead.

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