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  • Inaugural STEMFest a finalist in TECT Community Awards

    Inaugural STEMFest a finalist in TECT Community Awards

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    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…

  • STEMFestive and Hour of Code

    STEMFestive and Hour of Code

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    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…

  • STEMFest 2019 An Outrageous Success

    STEMFest 2019 An Outrageous Success

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    “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.…

  • STEM Debate at Zespri

    STEM Debate at Zespri

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    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…

  • Tauranga STEMFest showcases the best of our community spirit

    Tauranga STEMFest showcases the best of our community spirit

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    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…

  • Tauranga launches the first ever world-class STEM Festival in NZ

    Tauranga launches the first ever world-class STEM Festival in NZ

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    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…

  • STEM Debate at UoW

    STEM Debate at UoW

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    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…

  • STEM Challenge Day 2019

    STEM Challenge Day 2019

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…