TECT Community Awards Recognise Inaugural Festival Held in October 2019 TAURANGA, NZ – 26 JUNE, 2020 — TECT Community Awards have announced Tauranga STEM Festival (STEMFest) as the winner of the Event Excellence Award. The Festival was the first-ever community driven STEM event to be held in New Zealand....
By Qi-Wern Lim – STEM Champion / Aspiring TeacherPublished Last Wednesday 6th May 2020 I was lucky enough to get to chat with Chris Lintott along with Alyssa Minshall and student ambassadors Micaela, Thomas, Anthony, Michael and Elliot from Otumoetai College. This talk was the first event in the Conversations in STEM series and...
Watch our online session on Wednesday 6th May 2020 Astronomers have gotten very good at finding planets around other stars. In this informal online session you will be able to get up close and personal with one of the world’s leading science communicators and find out how you can...
Tauranga STEM Festival 2019 has been shortlisted as a finalist in the TECT Community Awards under the category of Event Excellence. The team are thrilled to have been nominated by so many people and to be a finalist in our very first year is a real honour. Founder, Tia...
The STEMFest Elves have been busy working on a STEMFestive experience for STEM lovers of all ages. We have two awesome events for your diary… Saturday 14th December – 11am to 2pm If you missed out on attending STEMFest this year, or if you just want to re-live the...
“An outrageous success!” — Professor Chris Battershill, Coastal Marine Field Station.New Zealand Herald. WOW. What an amazing STEMFest that was! One week on and things are still very busy at HQ (no time to rest) while we start collecting and analysing all of the data, information, and feedback to...
The last debate of the STEM Debate Series, sponsored by Zespri International, was held on Monday at Zespri’s shiny new headquarters in Mount Maunganui. Zespri were our hosts for the evening and had arranged a ‘Presidential-style’ debate which saw two teams of four pitted against each other in 8...
By Debs Begbie New Zealand families brought their curiosity to Tauranga STEMFest to celebrate our city’s first, world-class gathering of innovators, educators, and cutting-edge technologists from the Bay of Plenty and beyond. Team STEMFest are grateful for the community’s contribution and commitment toward making the 12th October 2019 event...
We are launching a Tauranga, and New Zealand, first this year with the inaugural Tauranga STEM Festival (STEMFest) this Saturday the 12th October. STEMFest is a celebration of science, technology, engineering and science, and children and whānau from all over Tauranga (and New Zealand!) are coming to attend this...
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...