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Next Gen Builders

Expanding access to learning, real-world experiences, and professional networks that help young people build confidence, skills, and pathways for the future.

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Z → A Holmes Club 

Observe. Question. Investigate. 

Students investigate real questions, strengthen the foundations behind their interests, use responsible AI thoughtfully, and connect learning with real-world experiences and future pathways.

Z → A  Arts | Sports  Lab 

Experience. Explore. Create.

Students discover the careers and industries behind arts and sports by connecting with professionals, experiencing real-world environments, and seeing how creativity, performance, and expertise translate into opportunity.

Z → A Incubator Series
Ideas. Journeys. Possibilities.

Students hear directly from founders, researchers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs, gaining insight into how ideas grow, careers evolve, and knowledge is applied in the real world.

About ZIKSA INC.

OUR SERVICES

This Is How We Create Transformation

Z → A Arts/ Sports Lab

Students explore career pathways in arts and sports through direct interaction with professionals and real-world environments. The focus is on discovering opportunities that often sit behind the scenes, from sports analytics and sports medicine to creative production and performance.

Z → A Holmes Club

Helping Peninsula students in grades 5–8 and high school strengthen the foundations behind their interests, investigate real questions, use responsible AI thoughtfully, and connect learning with real-world experiences and future pathways.

Z → A Incubator Series

Connecting students with founders, researchers, creators, and industry professionals so they can understand real career journeys, how ideas become organizations, and the many pathways behind the work they see around them.

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Our Values

Curiosity

Confidence

Responsibility

Impact

Community

Real-World Learning. Human Connection. Future Pathways

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Lavanyaa Surendar

Founder

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Sridevi Buddi

Nonprofit Consultant/ VP 

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Surendar Narasimhan 

Advisor

Sponsors and partners

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