Author: STEMFest Team
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Electric Cart Showcase
EVolocity – A showcase of a finalist team’s cart for a nationwide EV building competition! Our display is an electric cart built by high school students for a nationwide engineering competition. It is built for racing, and has to take into account several race types centred around manoeuvrability, economy, and pure speed. The students have…
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UBCO Bikes
UBCO – A chance to see and learn about the iconic and locally engineered UBCO 2X2, and hear about the exciting things our team are doing in awesome careers.
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Meet The Great InsectBot Mission 2022 Competition finalists
Our finalists are in the midst of their InsectBot build and working hard on 3D printing, coding, and electronics. We thought it might be good for them to take a little break and share a little bit about themselves… Meet our finalists Abby I am Abby and I live in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, The…
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NZ Aquabot challenge
Ministry of Inspiration – NZAquaBots is New Zealand’s only underwater robotics programme. At this workshop, participants will be able to design engineer at ‘hackabot’ to complete a challenge underwater! Can you collect kai? Can you save the trapped dolphin? Test your skills and see if you can! Microbots – This hands-on activity will have participants…
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New Zealand Defence Force
New Zealand Defence Force – Great opportunities for engineering in the NZDF with all training paid for and great deployment opportunities.
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Analytica Laboratories
Analytica Laboratories – Analytica will be running pipetting challenges with full lab gear races. The fastest to pipette primary colours into green wins! This is paired with an interactive puzzle to learn about laboratory work.
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Priority One
Priority One – come and have a go in the photobooth, video/screen with written answer competition!
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Giant bubbles
STEM Wana Trust – Bubble blowing is a fun example of chemistry! We invite visitors to experiment with homemade giant bubble wands and discover a bit of math, engineering, and science (chemistry and physics) as well as having lots of fun.
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Science at Home with Rebecca
STEM Wana Trust x Rebecca Prestidge – Science at home! A fun and interactive workshop where we bring the science lab to you where you become the scientist and participate in different experiments that are not only science but can also be done at home using items you will find in the pantry!
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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.