Author: STEMFest Team

  • STEM Debate at UoW

    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…

  • Get a hands with an introduction to computer science through coding and Internet of Things with JuniorDevTGA.

    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!

  • Walk inside the Colossal Colon

    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…

  • STEM Challenge Day 2019

    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…

  • STEM Debate Series 2019: Data Colonisation

    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…

  • STEMFest at Groundswell 2019 Play and Explore Popup

    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…

  • Excitement building for STEMFest at Canvas Career Expo

    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…

  • Early Bird Tickets To Tauranga’s First STEM Festival Released

    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…

  • Simple ways parents can get kids into science at home – Part 1

    Simple ways parents can get kids into science at home – Part 1

    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 and science at the same time.…

  • University of Waikato

    University of Waikato

    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 employment environment. With a diverse student…

  • Beca

    Beca

    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 and software services. They are also…

  • Sponsors 2021

    Meet our gigabyte sponsors who are supporting us in 2019. Zespri, Trustpower, Sharp Tudhope, Priority One, Toi Ohomoi, and Think.