Category: Event Recap
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STEM Wana x NDY Ada Lovelace Day 2024
On Wednesday 9th October the STEM Wana team went to Auckland to host a very special #AdaLovelaceDay2024 live-stream and NZ panel event in partnership with our friends NDY. We joined the start of the official Ada Lovelace Day Live! from London with a breakfast watch party and got a shout-out from London Eurovision style which was super…
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STEMFest returns to Tauranga for the third edition with thousands of visitors
Sunday the 1st of October saw Durham Street in Tauranga shut down for the annual celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics with the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest (and best) STEM Festival. The organising team had spent six months planning and organising and it was a relief when the big day finally arrived. The weather was…
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Science with MacDiarmid Institute
By Rachael Pratt STEM Wana Trust was invited to host a science workshop with two scientists from the MacDiarmid Institute who were visiting Tauranga and taking part in Cafe Scientifique as part of an outreach tour. We saw this was a great opportunity for our local Home School community and soon found a great group…
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Award winning STEMFest returns after pandemic restrictions
By Tia Lush On Sunday 2nd October 2022, the bunting was cut and thousands poured onto Durham Street in Tauranga’s CBD for a street party featuring some science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This moment has been nearly three years in the making. After the first STEMFest in 2019, it was a natural assumption that the…
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STEM Wana, STEMFest, and Tinkd Makerspace at Canvas Careers Expo 2022
On Saturday 13th August 2022, team STEMFest and team Tinkd packed up some of our gear and attended the annual Canvas Careers Expo at Trustpower Baypark Arena. We met with so many parents and students all curious to know more about STEM Wana, our projects and Tinkd Makerspace. Proving most popular was our 3D holographic…
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Tinkd Makerspace x Techweek 2022
By Jason Edgecombe A big thanks to all those who attended our Techweek 2022 Dream it. Build it. Share it. event on Monday 16th May 2022. Our team really enjoyed hosting everyone who was able to brave the wet weather (and the horrible parking) in town. We especially love having so many students from Te…
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Science Spinners x STEM Wana
On Monday 29th April 2021, we were invited to go along to support our good friends The Kudos Trust at their annual Science Spinners: Creative Hub event. Our programmes run over 4 days for our Waikato Year 9-13 students and giving them a taste of what science really is; how it applies to their everyday…
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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 “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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A recap for our Conversation in STEM with Chris Lintott
By Qi-Wern Lim – STEM Champion / Aspiring Teacher Last Wednesday 6th May 2020 I was lucky enough to get to chat with Chris Lintott along with Alyssa Minshall and student ambassadors Micaela, Thomas, Anthony, Michael and Elliot from Otumoetai College. This talk was the first event in the Conversations in STEM series and was organised by the STEM Wana Trust in…