Category: STEMFest Exhibitors 2022
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Rock Detectives – Stories in Stone
Geoscience Society of New Zealand – Every stone has a story to tell. Become a Rock Detective and explore our exciting range of rocks from around Aotearoa New Zealand. How many can you identify using our clues?
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Can your building withstand the next New Zealand earthquake?
Geoscience Society of New Zealand – New Zealand is known for its earthquakes. We get them daily, which means when we are building things, we need to ensure our structures can withstand future earthquakes. Come build mini-structures and see if they can withstand the next earthquake. You never know how big the next earthquake might…
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Let’s make a landscape!
Geoscience Society of New Zealand – Come and design your own dynamic 3D landscape in our augmented reality sandbox. Generate virtual rain to learn why lakes, rivers and oceans form where they do, experiment with making new mountains and landmasses, and see where the water flows when you make your own tsunami.
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Discover Electric Vehicles and Car Sharing
GoTo Car Share – Come and explore the fleet and discover more about EVs. Car sharing isn’t only convenient it’s also transforming how many people commute while benefiting our environment. It provides significant financial and social benefits offering forward-thinking public transport solutions to the parking problem in any modern city.
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Western Bay Wildlife Trust
Western Bay Wildlife Trust – Learn all about our local seabirds and shorebirds and the work we do to protect them! Find out how we undertake scientific monitoring and have a go at weighing and measuring kororā/little blue penguins.
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Tauranga City Libraries – STEM Craft
Tauranga City Libraries – We offer so much more than just books! Come and see us at STEMFest 2022 to get a grasp on what your local library has to offer. We’ll let you know about our ePlatforms, subsidised broadband, coding classes, makerspace, and computer lessons not to mention our new streaming service Hoopla, which…
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The Tinker Cart Platform
Super Humanics Ltd – Making so many STEM ideas come to life. ‘How to’ built in advice and projects with the tools to make it happen. practical tools, media and equipment. The Tinker Cart, made EF Furniture Ltd, is a mobile STEM resource toolbox. It contains machinery like a 3D Printer, power tools, small sewing…
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STEAM-ED Robotics
STEAM-ED – Have a go at driving a robot and learn more about robots. We will have VEX IQ, VEX Go and MBots for children to drive.
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School to Skies
School to Skies NZDF – Have you ever wondered how a plane flies? Or would you rather have your feet planted firmly on the ground? The Royal New Zealand Air Force -School to Skies team are showcasing the many aviation STEM career pathways on offer through their hands on display. Tinker with our Grumman aircraft,…
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Planetarium – Exploring the Universe
Milky Way Kiwi – (Session Times TBC) The Astrobiology Dome takes you on a journey through the universe across space and time.
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Mars Rovers
Milky-Way.Kiwi – (Session Times TBC) Drive a European Space Agency designed rover and see what it’s like to control a rover on Mars.
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Drone Cage – How Low Can You Go?
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research lead the research and development of remote sensing of the terrestrial environment in New Zealand. Working in this space since the 1970’s, it is no surprise that our research teams are at the forefront of developing and implementing cutting edge technologies and methods to monitor and better understand the environment. Come along…