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STEM Wana Trust celebrates Sharp Tudhope 125th Anniversary
To celebrate their 125th birthday, Sharp Tudhope Lawyers have decided to very generously donate $10,000 each to two local charities! This donation is part of their 125th Anniversary celebrating their contribution to the Bay of Plenty community. The Board of STEM Wana Trust would like to extend our gratitude to our long term sponsor, supporter,…
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STEM Wana at Tauranga Canvas Careers Expo 2021
On Saturday 31st July 2021, our team attended the Tauranga Canvas Careers Expo at Trustpower Arena. During the day we met with so many lovely young people and their whānau as they came to our brightly displayed (and lit up) space to have a go at some engineering with our Da Vinci bridge building, and…
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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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Local Focus: STEM Curiosity Day building future scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians
It was a day out of the classroom for more than 700 Bay of Plenty students from 12 schools around the region. The aim of STEM Curiosity Day is to participate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics challenges. “Our STEM Curiosity Day is the first of its kind to be done in New Zealand,” organiser…
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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 Wana Trust AGM 2020
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meetings of STEM Wana Trust will be held at: 2:15pm, Tuesday 17th November 2020 at Basestation, 148 Durham Street, Tauranga 3110, Bay of Plenty, NZ. Any interested parties or individuals wishing to attend are requested to RSVP via our contact form. The Board of Trustees.
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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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STEM HQ ‘Discovery Centre’ now open in Tauranga’s CBD
The 1st of October saw us open our doors to our community and visitors to Tauranga. Our first week has seen a total sell out with well over 1,300 tickets snapped by families taking advantage of the glorious spring weather during the school holidays and the great location close by the City’s picturesque waterfront. STEM…
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STEM at the Waterfront Event Postponed
STEM at the Waterfront Event Postponed until Further Notice. It is with much regret that circumstances beyond our control has meant that we have to postpone the event scheduled for Sunday 4th October 2020 at Tauranga’s waterfront. The good news is that, STEM HQ will be open during the school holidays, so please do click here…
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Free STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Centre Opens In Tauranga CBD
Updated 21 September 2020 – FREE tickets for STEM HQ ‘Discovery Centre’ now available online for October sessions! STEM Wana Trust with support from Downtown Tauranga’s Activate Vacant Spaces scheme opens an exciting dedicated FREE to enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics ‘discovery’ centre within Tauranga’s city centre. The Mainstreet Tauranga Activate Vacant Spaces team…
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STEM Wana at Canvas Careers Expo
On Friday 7th August and Saturday 8th August, STEM Wana were delighted to have taken part in the Bay of Plenty’s biggest careers event. It was so great to see Durham Street in Tauranga’s CBD once again buzzing and used in the same format as our award winning Tauranga STEM Festival in 2019. STEM Wana…