The new year is already in full swing, but we still fondly remember our Christmas celebration in December. It was an afternoon and evening full of fun and good food - all Zooma-style!

Last Thursday we attended the grand opening of the new children's exhibition Raad van de Raaf at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam. This interactive exhibition focuses on the climate crisis and how together we can contribute to a better future for the climate. And Zooma had the honor of developing the accompanying interactive app!

Last Thursday afternoon part of the Zooma team went to Alkmaar for some sim racing at RaceSquare Alkmaar. In a hyper-realistic F1 simulator we competed against each other and for a moment we felt like real racing drivers. Well, some of us did. Others drove around as if they were in the bumper cars at the fun fair :-)

This Thursday, the 19th, Zooma's annual "Open House" festival will take place in our building De Dorus. Expect a relaxed atmosphere with interesting speakers, young up-and-coming bands and tasty drinks. This year there will even be a food truck pulling up!

Starting in the second half of June, the Zooma office will close for a few weeks due to renovations. This is much needed to provide our growing team with a comfortable and flexible office with sufficient calling, concentration and meeting rooms. Plus, it's a great time to give the office a fresh, new look! It does present a challenge that we are temporarily without an office, but that went well during corona too :-)

Zooma has been building state-of-the-art apps for study and student associations under the name Youmie since 2016. The apps quickly became the digital membership platforms for several major student associations.

In the winter of 2023-2024, computer science students Daniël and Katinka of Leiden University of Applied Sciences built a complete narrowcasting system for Zooma's coworking building De Dorus during their third-year internship. On large Sony screens in various places in the building, information is displayed about the various companies in the building, get-togethers and events, solar panel yields, the weather and much more.

Zooma has been working as a tech partner on TMSQR since 2015; now an established name in the interesting world of music festivals and fans of live music. TMSQR started as a platform for festivals apps but recently started offering 'standalone' apps!

In the revolutionary development of BlinkLab, Zooma and the prestigious Princeton University explored the limits of the smartphone. The BlinkLab app uses the iPhone in unconventional ways, turning it into a device suitable for conducting neurobehavioral assessments.

For bookstore De Kler, Zooma developed a new responsive website / webshop in 2023 in five intensive sprints. De Kler is a well-known name in the book trade with no less than twelve physical stores spread over as many cities in the Randstad.