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Would you know what to do in an emergency? Practice your CPR and find out about our Youth Programme, how to learn First Aid and what it is like to work in Emergency Medicine.
Would you know what to do in an emergency? Practice your CPR and find out about our Youth Programme, how to learn First Aid and what it is like to work in Emergency Medicine.
It’s your turn to be the scientist!.Solve science challenges and uncover the mysteries behind the challenges.
Find out how Page Macrae Engineering use STEM to provide engineering solutions for many industries in New Zealand and overseas.
School to Skies is offering young women the chance to spend a week at the Royal New Zealand Air Force camp, to experience pulling apart a plane or picking up a welder for the first time. Come and experience STEM with NZDF.
MOTAT has packed up their museum and brought it to Tauranga! Come try our hands on activities.
Have fun with science with House of Science! Lots of hands-on and practical activities to enjoy.
Learn the science behind fire, and what happens when an oil fire meets water. Be prepared for some flames and heat!
Come and experience hands on engineering with one of STEMFest’s main sponsors.
We have a hands on approach to Science! Suited for kids from Y1, right through to Y13. Come and engage in some hands on activities with our staff and students.
STEM education goes far beyond the tech sector. The Toi Ohomai stand will feature our state-of-the-art forestry simulator, as well as exploring the impact of technology on the marine sector. Join us for a day of interactive fun and giveaways!
Complete the AR scavenger hunt and return to HQ for a chance to win a one year licence to CodeAvengers valued at $250 thanks to Venture Centre (five prizes available).
Set this kinetic sculpture in motion to explore how our decisions affect the world around us. Beautiful cyclic patterns or jumbled chaos? Where is the tipping point?
Experiment with gravity, magnetism, and kinetic energy with marble play! Design, build and play with us.
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.
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!
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!
A world where water issues are no longer a barrier to human health, prosperity and sustainable development.
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...
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!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
You don’t need fancy qualifications to teach your children about science. Science blogger Nanogirl, aka Dr Michelle Dickinson, is a nanotechnologist – working with very small things. She’s also the author of a recipe book for parents and children called The Kitchen Science Cookbook, to teach children about cooking...
The University of Waikato, located in the central North Island cities of Hamilton and Tauranga, is an internationally recognised tertiary institution offering degree programmes designed to produce job-ready graduates. Each year, the University provides more than 2,000 industry placements and internship opportunities, believing its students benefit from the chance to put the theory they have learnt in classrooms, into practice in a real-world...
Beca is one of the largest employee-owned engineering and related consultancy services companies in the Asia-Pacific. They have 20 offices across the Asia Pacific region – eight of them in New Zealand. Beca provides engineering and related consultancy services including architecture, planning, project and cost management, land information, valuations...
Meet our gigabyte sponsors who are supporting us in 2019. Zespri, Trustpower, Sharp Tudhope, Priority One, Toi Ohomoi, and Think.
Meet our megabyte sponsors who are supporting us in 2019. Stratus Blue, Cucumber, Grace Team Accounting, PlantTech, MacDiamid Institute for Advanced Materials and Naotechnology, ProjectBox, EnigmaticGlobal, Xero, Eurofins, ACG Tauranga, and Comvita.
Join the STEMFest team at our FREE Play and Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Popup session where imagination, creativity, and hands-on play take centre stage!
On Thursday 23rd May 2019, we had the pleasure of inviting our STEMFest whānau, sponsors, supporters, and friends to an official launch event. We were fortunate enough to have the evening hosted at the lovely Beca Group offices in Tauranga. Our guests starting arriving around 5pm and pretty soon...
Access to STEM Education and Infrastructure Careers for Women and Girls in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands – CSW63 Side Event 12 Mar 2019 – There are low numbers of women accessing tertiary education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics worldwide. This means fewer women in Technology and...
PARENTS JOIN FORCES TO HOST A WORLD-CLASS STEM FESTIVAL FOR TAURANGA —- Free Event Will Take Place on Saturday 12 October, 2019 TAURANGA, NZ — 21 JANUARY, 2019 — Tauranga’s first-ever Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Festival will be held on Saturday 12th October, 2019. The festival,...
Saturday 12th October 2019. Come and meet the inspiring scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians behind some of today’s coolest ideas and innovations! A celebration that is designed to engage and inspire the whole whānau and community, for children, young people, and adults. Subscribe to our mailing list to be...
Maths Craft New Zealand is a non-profit initiative founded in 2016 and run by mathematicians Dr Jeanette McLeod and Dr Phil Wilson together with the rest of the Maths Craft Team. We are passionate about engaging the public with mathematics through craft. Our aim is to show young and...
House of Science is passionate about inspiring young New Zealanders’ interest in science through tangible learning experiences. We are a charitable trust providing quality science resources to schools and professional learning for teachers to promote positive engagement with science in all its forms.
Alongside the main festival day, we are planning on bringing a series of supporting fringe events to compliment the main day. STEM Challenge Day- Designed for primary and secondary school aged children and home-ed community. STEM Diversity Debate- An open debate with homegrown and international high profile STEM champions and...
If you can imagine it, we can make it happen. We use the latest technologies to turn your ideas into bespoke software solutions that suit your unique business requirements. www.think.co.nz
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STEM Marketplace will be a maker environment to buy and sell innovative ideas, bringing you all the cool STEM products and goodies to help people of all ages in their STEM adventure. If you are interested in bringing your products to the festival, please contact us for more information.
Take part in slime making, exploring non-newtonian fluids with corn starch and getting messy with experiments! Roll up your sleeves and get tucked in. Adults need to be supervised by a responsible child.
We are looking for help with the preparations in the weeks leading up to the event and also on the day itself. If you can spare some time to help in the following areas, we would love to hear from you! Social media ninja We want to make sure...