Author: STEMFest Team
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Learn about DNA
What makes us all unique? Come and learn about DNA and genetics and make some cool accessories with our team of eager scientists and educators.
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AR Sandbox
Build mountains and make it rain. Get interactive with our augmented reality sandbox, create topographical maps and land formations and talk with our engineers and scientists who are working in Geo engineering and environmental sciences!
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Zespri Innovation Zone
Want to make a smoothie on a bike? Extract DNA from a kiwifruit? Get the most Vitamin C from your 5+ a day? Come see us!
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Solving Water
A world where water issues are no longer a barrier to human health, prosperity and sustainable development.
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STEM Debate at UoW
STEM Debate Series 2019: Does having too much empathy constrain good science? To mark Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday, 8th October, we held our second STEM Debate which was kindly sponsored by Zespri International. The event was enthusiastically organised by Jackie Evans, Head of Research at Comvita and held at the University of Waikato-Tauranga. In…
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Get a hands with an introduction to computer science through coding and Internet of Things with JuniorDevTGA.
Get Inside a Laptop – Making and unmaking laptops Internet of Fabulous Things – Learn stuff from Things connected to the Internet Code your Game – Get started with Minecraft Machine Learning in Action – Watch machines actually learn!
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Walk inside the Colossal Colon
Join us in an incredible experience walking through Cancer Society’s “colossal colon” (a giant inflatable bowel). Guided by Aspire2 International’s Health Services Management students, you will increase your knowledge about the signs and symptoms of cancer and also learn about healthy lifestyles. This is a very interactive experience and there is a fun quiz and…
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STEM Challenge Day 2019
Last Wednesday 18th September, I had the absolute privilege of being a STEM Champion and MC at the very first STEM Challenge Day in Tauranga. This STEM Challenge Day was a fringe event of the main Tauranga STEM Festival which will be held on Durham Street on Saturday 12th October. The STEM Champions and other…
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STEM Debate Series 2019: Data Colonisation
On Tuesday 10th September saw the first event in our STEM Debate Series which is kindly sponsored by Zespri International. It was organised and hosted by STEMFest 2019 sponsor and friends at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology and also formed part of Wiki O Te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week. The evening saw a…
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STEMFest at Groundswell 2019 Play and Explore Popup
We are so thrilled to be involved in this year’s Groundswell Festival of Innovation programme of activities spanning two weeks from 26th August to 9th September 2019. Our FREE popup Play & Explore session was held on Tuesday 3rd September from 10am to 1pm at Basestation in Durham St. We invited those who worked in the CBD to pop…
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Excitement building for STEMFest at Canvas Career Expo
Team STEMFest were in full play mode at last weekend’s Canvas Career Expo held at Tauranga’s Trustpower Arena. Hundreds of visitors, from toddlers to grandparents, stopped by the interactive stand to learn about STEMFest Tauranga and the exciting opportunities to interact with new technologies being developed right here in the Bay of Plenty region. The…
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Early Bird Tickets To Tauranga’s First STEM Festival Released
Free event will take place on Saturday 12 October, 2019 Tickets to Tauranga’s first Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Festival are now available. The free street festival will be the first of its kind in Tauranga, with the closure of the newly upgraded block of Durham Street (from Elizabeth Street to Spring Street) dedicated…