Category: Popups & Outreach
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Women in Engineering school visit with Renee Young
By Rachael Pratt Did you know Women only make up 14% of engineers in Aotearoa? At STEM Wana, it is statistics like these that we are aiming to change. How do we go about making a change? We go straight to the source! On Friday 28th of July, STEM Wana Founder, Tia Lush and I…
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STEM in the Community and NASA at Tauranga
Tuesday 10th January 2023 – By Janet Van Jenkins The day was finally here – Tuesday 10th January 2023 saw queues stretching out across Tauranga Boys’ College campus as over 600 keen young scientists and space enthusiasts lined up (in the rain!) to come and spend a “Night in with a NASA Astronaut”. Let’s rewind…
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STEM in the Community and NASA at Rotorua
Monday 9th January 2023 – By Tia Lush The second stop on day two of our SWTxNASA Tour was hosted at the beautiful Rotorua Library. It was the first time that we had worked with the amazing team there and everything was in hand and ready when Tia arrived to set up. After a check…
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STEM in the Community and NASA at Taupo
Monday 9th January 2023 – By Tia Lush The second day of our SWTxNASA Tour saw sunshine and good weather over beautiful Taupō. Our friends at Taupō library had been briefed and had already been hard at work setting up their Children’s area and turning it into a presentation area fit enough for a NASA…
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STEM in the Community and NASA at Palmerston North
Sunday 8th January 2023 – By Rachael Pratt Arriving in Palmerston North on Saturday evening, the realisation that it was finally NASA tour time hit. My first stop was to the amazing Blueprint Makerspace. Where Zak showed me around their fabulous space. What a fantastic resource for the people of Palmerston North. Zak then provided…
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NASA Astronaut touches down in Tauranga
A once in a lifetime opportunity for tamariki to meet with a record breaking NASA Astronaut at an event in Tauranga on Tuesday 10th January 2023 TAURANGA, NZ — 04 JANUARY, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Record breaking NASA astronaut and microbiologist Dr. Kate Rubins will be touching down in Aotearoa New Zealand for the first…
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NASA Astronaut touring central North Island for STEM in the Community initiative
Everyone is invited to come and meet Dr. Kate Rubins as she travels from Palmerston North to Tauranga from 8th January to 10th January 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAURANGA, NZ — 22 NOVEMBER, 2022 Record breaking NASA astronaut and microbiologist Dr. Kate Rubins will be touching down in Aotearoa New Zealand for the first time…
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STEM Summer Edition and STEM Open Day
This summer over three days we welcomed hundreds of visitors to a very special series of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics sessions in Tauranga. It started on Thursday 20th January 2022 with a workshop covering Artificial Intelligence with Matias Iacono from Cucumber NZ in the morning. Our participants choose from three activities and had a…
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STEM in the Community 2021 – Summary
A big thanks to all those who attended our STEM in the Community events over the October 2021 school holidays. Our team really enjoyed travelling around to different locations in the Bay of Plenty and meeting all our STEM friends. We would also like to extend a huge thanks to all the amazing content providers,…
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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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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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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…