Category: Competition
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STEMFest 2023 x Tourism Bay of Plenty Competition
GIVEAWAY TIME WIN A WEEKEND IN TAURANGA AT STEMFEST THIS SCHOOL HOLIDAYS! 🧪 🦾 ⚙️ 🔢 We’ve teamed up with Tourism Bay of Plenty and have an amazing family weekend in the Bay to give away! The prize includes: TO ENTER: You must be following @Tauranga STEM Festival and @Bay of Plenty NZ facebook pages…
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Winner of The Great InsectBot Mission announced at STEMFest 2022
Since July 2022, STEMFest has been running a competition open to rangatahi across Aotearoa aged between 10-16 years of age. We challenged them to step into a NASA engineer’s shoes to design and create a robot, inspired from insects’ unique characteristics, with the capability of surviving on Mars. Five Finalists were chosen from all the…
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InsectBot creator can win Rocket Lab tour
New Zealand’s young innovators have been set a mission of creating an InsectBot capable of surviving on Mars for the chance to win an exclusive VIP tour of the Rocket Lab facilities. The Great InsectBot Mission Competition is being led by STEM Wana Trust ahead of Tauranga STEM Festival, New Zealand’s largest science, technology, engineering…
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International Women in Engineering Day 2022 – Meet Alex Altobelli
International Women in Engineering Day is an international awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry. It celebrates the outstanding achievements of women engineers throughout the world. Meet Alex — engineer, adventurer, and STEMFest InsectBot Space Competition judge!…
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Meet the finalists of the STEMFest official mascot superhero competition
We’ve had some amazing entries from tamariki for this year’s STEMFest mascot superhero. We asked tamariki to think about an environmental problem that meant something to them and then to create a superhero who could solve that problem using the awesome powers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Our judges met on Friday 11th…
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InsectBot Space Competition Meet the Panel
David Greig David is the President of the Tauranga Astronomical Society where he has been a member for 11 years, since 2011. He’s had a life-long interest in space / astronomy since when as a child he bought his first telescope at 14 years old, more than 40 years ago. He used to spend many…
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InsectBot Space Competition Terms and Conditions
12 July 2022 1. These terms and conditions (Terms) apply to all participants in The Great InsectBot Mission Competition (Competition) promoted by the STEM Wana Trust (SWT). 2. By entering the Competition, you are deemed to agree to these Terms without qualification. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, you must…
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STEMFest official mascot superhero competition
Terms and Conditions Tauranga STEM Festival Mascot competition is open to residents of the Bay of Plenty aged 8 – 12 years old. All entrants should ask permission from a parent or guardian before entering. Please see the form attached for parents/guardian to sign. Only one artwork per artist may be entered. Parent/guardian are willing…
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STEMFest official mascot competition
This year the organising team wanted our talented STEM whānau to help us come up with a superhero mascot for STEMFest 2021 that solves an environmental problem using STEM superpowers. Entries came in from young people across Tauranga and during the July school holidays we also hosted a special session at Basestation. Our young creatives…
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STEM Explorer Trail Easter Winners
During the school holidays 19th April – 2nd May 2021, we invited our families to take part in the STEM Explorer Trail in Tauranga’s CBD. We had reports of lots of STEM explorers enjoying the activity and getting out and about. There was a very special stop at Craniums (Clever Kids) on Grey Street, with…