<h1>Corporate social responsibility enables a new science education centre to expand rural student outreach under a collaborative MoA.</h1> Hindustan Aeronautics Limited entered a Memorandum of Agreement with the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences to establish the HAL Advanced Academic Initiation Centre as a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative at CeNS' Arkavathi Campus, creating a dedicated hub to increase access to advanced scientific concepts for students-particularly from rural areas-and to expand capacity under CeNS' Vigyaani Vidyarthi Vichar Vinimay (V4) programme to accommodate additional school requests and larger outreach.