Category: 2020 STEM Initiative
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How to organise large scale public events during a global pandemic
2020 STEM Initiatives Review At the start of 2020, like many organisations we started our planning for an ambitious year ahead. Our focus was going to be the delivery of a bigger and better STEMFest. And then a global pandemic stuck and everything ground to a literal halt. March saw our team, led by Tia…
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STEM HQ hosts final month of hands-on science fun
Don’t miss the final month of science fun at STEM HQ. New Zealand’s budding scientists are being encouraged not to miss out on free, festive, family-friendly STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activity, with the STEM HQ Discovery Centre in Tauranga set to finish its season this month. STEM Wana Trust is hoping to get…
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STEM “Discovery” HQ sells out all sessions during first week of opening
Here is our update following the first two weeks of STEM HQ opening to the public. Demand for tickets Much to our delight, tickets to both morning and afternoon sessions ‘sold out’ for all the dates during the school holidays. Visitor numbers have been on average 92 people per day since our opening on the…
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ASCII Binary Coding
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by eight “bits”, which is a unit called a “byte”. For each letter, space, and punctuation of the code, we have a different byte. Question: The binary below is 15 bytes long – 12 letters, 2 spaces, and 1 punctuation mark. 01010111 01100101 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101…
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STEM Explorer Trail & STEM HQ
STEM Explorer Trail A STEM adventure that explores our community and city with hands-on, interactive STEM challenges located throughout the CBD. Quizzes, puzzles and tasks are waiting to be unlocked and solved at your own pace individually, with friends or the entire whānau. This project is being developed and delivered by the YouthDev team. Want…
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YouthDev Challenge
Bringing together aspiring coders and designers to work alongside experienced mentors to collaboratively design, build, and implement a STEM Explorer website/app for use by our community. This programme is currently underway. It’s being led by Kelly Williams and a team of mentors.
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Conversations in STEM
Making STEM entertaining. Learn, laugh, and converse with some of the most respected STEM heroes in their field. Hosting conversations that will bring everyone to the table to make big ideas and topics fun and easy to participate in. May 2020 – A Conversation with Professor Chris Lintott. Professor of Astrophysics and Citizen Science Lead at…
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STEM Curiosity Day
“Inspire, engage, empower youth and educators in STEM!” Free event will take place on Wednesday 9th December, 2020. Reimagined for COVID-19 Level 1 & 2 Compliance STEM Curiosity Day is a day long event for schools and home-schooled students to immerse themselves in STEM challenges, activities and games in a fun and exciting environment. Theme:…