Category: News
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Tauranga STEM Festival Wins Event Excellence Award
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. The TECT Community Awards honor those…
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A recap for our Conversation in STEM with Chris Lintott
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 was organised by the STEM Wana Trust in…
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Conversation in STEM with Professor Chris Lintott
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 discover weird worlds! Get involved! Tauranga…
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Inaugural STEMFest a finalist in TECT Community Awards
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 Lush says “To receive this awesome…
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STEMFestive and Hour of Code
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 wonder of the day, then we…
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STEMFest 2019 An Outrageous Success
“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 share with our sponsors and partners.…
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STEM Debate at Zespri
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 rounds of questions. Teams took turns…
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Tauranga STEMFest showcases the best of our community spirit
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 a tremendous success! With a fresh…
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Tauranga launches the first ever world-class STEM Festival in NZ
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 free event. STEMFest will see hands-on…
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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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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…