Tag: Indoor
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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.
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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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A bright future in STEM begins with success in maths today!
NumberWorks’nWords – Tuition, Confidence, Results. Fun maths activities on a computer (suitable for all ages and abilities), and/or enter our Maths competition if you’re a keen mathematician!
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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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Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science (CARES)
The University of Auckland robotics research team will demonstrate some of their latest research projects. wearable human robot interfaces that allow us to operate robot grippers and hands in the execution of grasping tasks and with an all-terrain vehicle.
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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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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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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.