Author: STEMFest Team
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Listening to Rūaumoko’s Rumbles
Seismocity Ltd – Aotearoa New Zealand experiences many earthquake each and every day! Fortunately we don’t feel most of them and only a very few are strong enough to cause damage. But scientists have networks that can catch all of them. Come and listen to the Earth rumble! You’ll find out how scientists detect earthquakes…
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Volcano Explorer
Geoscience Society of New Zealand – Come and discover what makes volcanoes tick. Play the Magma Pop game to crystallise different minerals out of a magma, then play with real volcanic rocks to find out what makes them different and why some of them even float on water.
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Rock Detectives – Stories in Stone
Geoscience Society of New Zealand – Every stone has a story to tell. Become a Rock Detective and explore our exciting range of rocks from around Aotearoa New Zealand. How many can you identify using our clues?
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Can your building withstand the next New Zealand earthquake?
Geoscience Society of New Zealand – New Zealand is known for its earthquakes. We get them daily, which means when we are building things, we need to ensure our structures can withstand future earthquakes. Come build mini-structures and see if they can withstand the next earthquake. You never know how big the next earthquake might…
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Let’s make a landscape!
Geoscience Society of New Zealand – Come and design your own dynamic 3D landscape in our augmented reality sandbox. Generate virtual rain to learn why lakes, rivers and oceans form where they do, experiment with making new mountains and landmasses, and see where the water flows when you make your own tsunami.
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Discover Electric Vehicles and Car Sharing
GoTo Car Share – Come and explore the fleet and discover more about EVs. Car sharing isn’t only convenient it’s also transforming how many people commute while benefiting our environment. It provides significant financial and social benefits offering forward-thinking public transport solutions to the parking problem in any modern city.
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Pumping for water
Xylem – Discover and learn how water is potentially transported in many countries where availability of electricity is either scarce or not available at all, we will be using the SAAJHI pump in a competition whereby those visiting the stand can fill a tank of water over a period of time. We will measure the…
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A bright future in STEM begins with success in maths today!
NumberWorks’nWords – Tuition, Confidence, Results. Fun maths activities on a computer (suitable for all ages and abilities), and/or enter our Maths competition if you’re a keen mathematician!
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Western Bay Wildlife Trust
Western Bay Wildlife Trust – Learn all about our local seabirds and shorebirds and the work we do to protect them! Find out how we undertake scientific monitoring and have a go at weighing and measuring kororā/little blue penguins.
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Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science (CARES)
The University of Auckland robotics research team will demonstrate some of their latest research projects. wearable human robot interfaces that allow us to operate robot grippers and hands in the execution of grasping tasks and with an all-terrain vehicle.
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Tauranga City Libraries – STEM Craft
Tauranga City Libraries – We offer so much more than just books! Come and see us at STEMFest 2022 to get a grasp on what your local library has to offer. We’ll let you know about our ePlatforms, subsidised broadband, coding classes, makerspace, and computer lessons not to mention our new streaming service Hoopla, which…
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Our Water – From Source to Sea
Tauranga City Council Water – Come along to the Tauranga City Council STEM presentation and learn about the journey of our local water from source to sea. We will look at conservation and sustainability of drinking water, pollution of stormwater, and treatment of wastewater. You will see where our water comes from, how it is…