All News & Events

November 2023

24 November 2023: Seminar by Dr Renu Choudhary, AUT

July 2023

06 July 2023: Seminar by Dr Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University, UK

April 2023

02 April 2023: Representing AUT at the Super STEM Fair at MOTAT Museum

March 2023

08 March 2023: Seminar by visiting Professor Chris Sangwin, University of Edinburgh, UK

February 2023

27 February 2023: International Mathematical Modelling Challenge

June 2022

16 June 2022: New Zealand team is placed in the top 3 at the 8th International Mathematical Modelling Challenge

July 2021

12 July 2021: Mentoring Programme in STEM Education Research by STEM-TEC

2 July 2021: Article in the New Zealand Herald on Kerri Spooner’s Project

05 July 2021: Seminar by Dr Robin Hankin, Department of Mathematical Sciences, AUT

June 2021

30 June 2021: The Results of the International Mathematical Modelling Challenge

April 2021

11 April 2021: Representing AUT at the Super STEM Fair at the MOTAT Museum

March 2021

26 March 2021: Seminar by Dr Sergiy Klymchuk, Department of Mathematical Sciences, AUT

19 March 2021: International Mathematical Modelling Challenge

January 2021

10-23 January 2021: Rotary National Science and Technology Forum

December 2020

7-9 December 2020: Five Members Present Papers at the Virtual Conference of the Australian Association of Engineering Education (AAEE-2020)

1 December 2020: Plenary Talk by Sergiy Klymchuk at the Mathematics and Calculus Day of the Auckland Mathematical Association

1-2 December 2020: Mathematics and Statistics Education Sessions, AUT

November 2020

27 November 2020: Seminar by Dr. Krassie Petrova and Dr. Nural Sarkar, Engineering Computer & Mathematical Sciences, AUT

5 November 2020: Seminar by Dr Dave Parry, Engineering Computer & Mathematical Sciences, AUT

October 2020

15 October 2020: Seminar by Dr Willem van Straten, Mathematical Sciences, AUT

September 2020

2 September 2020: External Grant from the MBIE to Kerri Spooner for the Mathematical Modelling Project

August 2020

12 August 2020: Completion of the Large National Project in STEM Education

July 2020

31 July 2020: Seminar by Dr Robin Hankin, Mathematical Sciences, AUT

January 2020

11-25 January 2020: Rotary National Science and Technology Forum

15 January 2020: Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh appointed Director of Women in Technology

November 2019

18 November 2019: Public Lecture by Kevin Roberts, CNZM, former CEO of Worldwide Saatchi & Saatchi

15 November 2019: STEM Colloquium

14-15 November 2019: Computer Science for High Schools (CS4HS) conference

14 November 2019: Jason Coleman, a visitor form the USA

14 November 2019: Seminar by Wei Qi Yan, Director of AUT Center for Robotics & Vision (CeRV)

12 November 2019: Seminar by Kerri Spooner, Department of Mathematical Sciences, AUT

October 2019

10 October 2019: Seminar by Dr Robin Hankin, Mathematical Sciences, AUT

August 2019

29 August 2019: Seminar by Dr Loulin Huang, SECMS, AUT

July 2019

1 July 2019: International Mathematical Modelling Challenge: TV coverage on Seven Sharp

June 2019

28 June 2019: Seminar by Dr David White, SECMS, AUT

April 2019

09 April 2019: Seminar by Professor Miroslav Lovric, McMaster University, Canada

07 April 2019: Representing AUT at the Super STEM Fair at MOTAT Museum

05 April 2019: Seminar by Professor Celina M. Olszak, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

May 2019

28 May 2019: Seminar by Professor Jarrad Pond, University of Georgia, USA

09 May 2019: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series with Adrian Sallis - Part II

March 2019

13 March 2019: Seminar by Pauline Hoyle, Cinnabar Consultancy, formerly Associate Director of the National STEM Learning Centre, UK

30 March 2018: International Mathematical Modelling Challenge

28 March 2019: Seminar by Dr Murray Black, Programme Leader of Undergraduate Programmes in Mathematical Sciences, AUT

New Additions to STEM-TEC Centre

February 2019

13 February 2019: Seminar by Pauline Hoyle, Cinnabar Consultancy, formerly Associate Director of the National STEM Learning Centre, UK

January 2019

12-26 January 2019: Rotary National Science and Technology Forum

December 2018

9-12 December 2018: The 29th Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference

3-4 December 2018: First Year Science Educators’ Colloquium (FYSEC)

November 2018

28-30 November 2018: Tertiary Education Research New Zealand conference (TERNZ)

30 November 2018: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series with Adrian Sallis

27 November 2018: Auckland Mathematical Association (AMA) annual conference Calculus Day

21-23 November 2018: Fifth International STEM in Education Conference

21-22 November 2018: Computer Science for High Schools (CS4HS) conference

8 November 2018: STEMpreneurs Retrospective: Looking back on Four Years of STEMpreneurs

October 2018

12 October 2018: Seminar by Associate Professor Sergiy Klymchuk, AUT, "Provocative Mathematics Questions: Drawing Attention to a Lack of Attention"

September 2018

21 September 2018: Seminar by Boshra T. Haghighi, AUT, "Evaluation of Internet Addiction and Self-Manage Productive Use of Internet"

August 2018

31 August 2018: Seminar by Dr William Liu, AUT, "Is it possible to cure Internet addiction with the Internet?"

29 August 2018: A Report on STEM-TEC Activities and their Impacts over 2014-2018

July 2018

6 July 2018: Seminar by Jennifer Czocher, Texas State University, "What are some benefits of teaching differential equations with a mathematical modelling approach?"

2 July 2018: Congratulations to the New Zealand Mathematical Modelling Teams

June 2018

22 June 2018: Seminar by Dr Ian Jones, Loughborough University, UK

19 June 2018: Seminar by Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University, "Engineering my teaching"

5 June 2018: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series with Alex Vaz

May 2018

1 May 2018: International Mathematical Modelling Challenge

31 May 2018: Seminar by Robin Hankin, AUT, "Top of the class, pass an exam, or drop out: metaphors we teach by"

April 2018

8 April 2018: Representing AUT at the Super STEM Fair at MOTAT Museum

30 April 2018: Successful Defence of PhD Thesis by Peter Maclaren

March 2018

23 March 2018: Seminar by Professor Gabriele Kaiser, University of Hamburg “Mathematical modelling competences: meaning, teaching and assessment”

February 2018

16 February 2018: Seminar by Pauline Hoyle, Associate Director of the National STEM Learning Centre, UK

9 February 2018: Seminar by Natasha Artemeva, Carleton University, Canada, "Assessing genre sensitivity: Undergraduate students’ writing in response to nested engineering contexts"

January 2018

13-27 January 2018: Rotary National Science and Technology Forum

July 2017

11 July 2017: Seminar by Mahsa Mohaghegh, AUT, "Have you ever been part of a minority?"

25 July 2017: STEMpreneurs Social evening

June 2017

8 June 2017: Sponsoring 3D Printing Professional Development Event for School Teachers at AUT

1 June 2017: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series Presents Dmitry Selitskiy, Founder & CEO at Thought-Wired

November 2017

28 November 2017: $198,205 Grant received from the New Zealand Council for Educational Research

October 2017

17 October 2017: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series with Duncan Babbage

10 October 2017: Seminar by Chloe Grace Fogarty-Bourget, Carleton University, Ottawa, "More than chalk and talk: The use of gestures and movement in university mathematics lecturing"

September 2017

26 September 2017: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series with Ed Scholten

25 September 2017: STEM-TEC member Kerri Spooner interviewed on MCAT maths testing

August 2017

25 August 2017: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series Presents Ira Munn, Founder & CEO at Ierospace

May 2017

20 May 2017: Publicity on the International Mathematical Modelling Competition – NZ team is organised by Kerri Spooner

19 May 2017: Congratulations on successful completion of a PhD in astronomy by Jordan Alexander

4 May 2017: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series Presents Alyona Medelyan, Founder & CEO at Thematic

2 May 2017: Seminar by Andrew Zaliwski, "Blended cooperative course authoring"

April 2017

7 April 2017: Co-sponsoring AUT Students Programming Contest

11 April 2017: Seminar by Peter Maclaren, Academic Advisor in the AUT Centre for Learning and Teaching, "The future forms of tertiary STEM education"

3 April 2017: STEMpreneurs & Student Entrepreneurship Team student networking evening

March 2017

28 March 2017: Seminar by Iouri Belski, Professor of Engineering Problem Solving at RMIT, "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)"

6 March 2017: Call for participants in the 2017 International Mathematical Modelling Challenge

February 2017

14 February 2017: Congratulations on successful supervision to completion of a PhD in computer science education

13 Feb 2017: Seminar by David Klappholz, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, "Teaching High-Level Abstraction via Directed Active Learning"

January 2017

14-28 January 2017: Rotary National Science and Technology Forum

November 2016

16 November 2016: Seminar by Prof. Dr. Norbert Gruenwald, Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Technology, Business and Design, "Innovation through Cooperation International Networking"

27-30 November 2016: Sponsoring a joint conference of the New Zealand Statistical Association and the Operations Research Society of New Zealand

24 November 2016: Auckland Mathematical Association Calculus Day

7 November 2016: Ako Aotearoa National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence Colloquium

October 2016

22 October 2016: Workshop “What’s in the cloud? Gaming & Artificial Intelligence ” for school students from South Auckland

19 October 2016: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series Presents TN Chan, Founder & System Architect, Compucon New Zealand

15 October 2016: Workshop “Radical Engineering: Building stuff & then pulling it apart” for school students from South Auckland

4 October 2016: Seminar by Kerri Spooner, AUT “A Foundation Programme Preparing Students for Future Study in Computing and Engineering Degrees”

September 2016

24 September 2016: Workshop “On and beyond our blue earth? Science (Chemistry, Biology, Physics & Astronomy)” for school students from South Auckland

22 September 2016, Seminar by Professor Reinhard Klette, AUT, "Some structured comments about PhD supervision"

10 September 2016: Workshop “Numbers don’t lie or do they? Maths and Stats” for school students from South Auckland

2-4 September 2016: Sponsoring AUT Kickstart Weekend

August 2016

31 August 2016: Programming Challenge for Girls (PC4G)

17 August 2016: STEMpreneurs Speaker Series Presents Matthew Davison, Head of Operations, Google NZ

3 August 2016: A $10,000 grant from Ako Aotearoa National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence

2-5 August 2016: Three new international partnerships

July 2016

28 July 2016: STEMpreneurs panel discussion hosted by Andrew Patterson, "Business as usual is no longer enough"

19 July 2016, Seminar by Associate Professor Tony Clear, AUT, "Method and practice in computer science education research"

1 July 2016: Seminar by Associate Professor Sergiy Klymchuk, Auckland University of Technology, "Enhancing Engineering Students’ Generic Thinking Skills through Puzzles, Paradoxes and Sophisms"

June 2016

1 June 2016: STEMpreneurs Speaker Series Presents Andrew McPherson, Former Engineer and now CEO at Experieco, Founder of Industry Connect & NZ Big Data Meetup

May 2016

19 May 2016: Visit to our partner STEM Rongomai Centre, South Auckland

17 May 2016: Seminar by Associate Professor Andrew Petersen, University of Toronto, Canada “Developing and Investigating Online Programming Resources”.

16 May 2016: Successful presentation of a PhD extended research proposal by Kerri Spooner

11 May 2016: Receiving a $25,000 grant from the MBIE for the project "STEMpreneurial Bugs for South Auckland Youth"

5 May 2016: A newspaper article about the International Mathematical Modelling Challenge coordinated in New Zealand by Kerri Spooner

4 May 2016: STEMpreneurs Speaker Series Presents Professor Stephen Henry, CEO Kode Biotech

April 2016

28 April 2016: Seminar Professor Sergei Gulyaev, AUT “Tides and seasons: most difficult topics in Astronomy paper”.

22-24 April 2016: Sponsoring International NASA Space Apps Challenge

18 April 2016: Commendation from the Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand Universities

15 April 2016: Sponsoring Inaugural AUT Programming Contest

5 April 2016: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series Presents Nick Pattison, STEM Science & Innovation Hub Director, Rongomai School

March 2016

22 March 2016: Organising New Zealand teams for the International Mathematical Modelling Challenge (IMMC)

21 March: Two visitors from the University of Kassel, Germany

16 March 2016: Seminar by Professor Uwe Laemmel, Wismar University, Germany, "IT based Knowledge Management"

11 March 2016: Dr Jesse Pirini joined the STEM-TEC Centre

8 March 2016: Establishing partnership with the Mathematics in Education and Industry Centre (MEI) in the UK

7 March 2016: Visiting Professor Uwe Laemmel, Wismar University, Germany on sabbatical March-May

February 2016

15 February 2016: Seminar by Professor Barbara Jaworski, Loughborough University, UK, "Teaching Mathematics for Student Understanding"

January 2016

9-23 January 2016: Rotary National Science and Technology Forum

6 January 2016: A short visit by Dr Serge Hazanov, International School Geneva, Switzerland

December 2015

11-12 December 2015: Establishing a partnership with the STeM Education Research Group of the University of South Australia, Australia

2 December 2015: Seminar by Associate Professor Sergiy Klymchuk, AUT “Using Puzzles, Paradoxes, Provocations and Sophisms for Enhancing Teaching and Learning of Engineering Mathematics”

November 2015

26-27 November 2015: Australasian Symposium on Using Pen-Enabled Tablets in Teaching STEM Subjects

25 November 2015: Seminar by Associate Professor Birgit Loch, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia “Involving students in making mathematics relevant to first-year engineering students”

24 November 2015: Establishing a partnership with the STEM Centre at the Kapi'olani Community College, Hawaii, USA

23 November 2015: Establishing a partnership with the STEM Rongomai Centre, South Auckland

16 November 2015: Seminar by Jordan Alexander, AUT “Undergraduate physics at AUT: explorations, student teachers, and seminars”

October 2015

24 October 2015: Workshop “What’s in the Cloud? Gaming & Artificial Intelligence” for high school students from South Auckland

21 October 2015: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series Presents Alan Brannigan, CEO & Founder @ Vigil Monitoring

14 October 2015: $8,000 grants from the Microsoft New Zealand and AUT's Centre for Learning and Teaching

10 October 2015: Workshop “Radical Engineering: Answering the Unanswerable” for high school students from South Auckland

September 2015

23 September 2015: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series Presents Mark Thomas, Founder of Right Hemisphere

19 September 2015: Workshop “Beyond our Blue Earth? Physics and Astronomy” for high school students from South Auckland

10 September 2015: GirlTech Event at AUT'S South Campus

2 September 2015: Programming Challenge for Girls (PC4G)

August 2015

29 August 2015: Workshop “Numbers don’t lie or do they? Maths and Stats” for high school students from South Auckland

27 August 2015: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series Presents Jonathan Currie, Technical Director of Inverse Problem Ltd

July 2015

28-29 July 2015: Two invited professional development workshops at the Academy of Singapore Teachers

7-10 July 2015: New Zealand Association of Mathematics Teachers Conference

June 2015

11 June 2015: STEM-TEC Seminar by Dr William Liu, SCMS, AUT, "Who Am I: Siren, Sailor or Odysseus?"

3 June 2015: $20,000 Grants from the AUT Centre for Learning and Teaching

May 2015

29 May 2015: Seminar by Professor Mike Thomas, University of Auckland, "From theory to practice: Digital technology use in the teaching and learning of university mathematics"

28 May 2015: A $19,000 grant from the MBIE for the joint project with Co-Lab

26 May 2015: Seminar by Professor Miroslav Lovric, McMaster University, Canada, "Learning Mathematics within an Interdisciplinary Science Programme"

April 2015

29 April 2015: Seminar by Dr Robin Hankin, SCMS, AUT, "The “hidden curriculum” in mathematics education"

22 April 2015: STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series, with Josh Daniell, Head of Platform and Investor Growth at Snowball Effect

11-12 April: International NASA Space Apps Challenge

March 2015

23 March 2015: Inaugural STEMpreneurs Guest Speaker Series, with Mark Mackay, Co-founder of Orcon Internet

9 March 2015: Establishing a partnership with the Centre for Research in Engineering and Science Education (CREE), University of Cape Town, South Africa

February 2015

17 February 2015: Successful presentation of a PhD extended research proposal by Peter Maclaren

17 Feb 2015: Seminar by Professor Mikey Goldweber, Xavier University, Cincinnati, "Improving Course Relevance: Techniques for incorporating the social value of computing into your courses"

January 2015

10-24 January 2015: Rotary National Science and Technology Forum

December 2014

9 December 2014: Two members of STEM-TEC received Learning and Teaching Excellence awards from the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies

9 December 2014: Teaching with Technology Master Class by Travis Smith, Microsoft Australia’s National Education Specialist

5 December 2014: Microsoft Imagine Cup entries close

1 Dec 2014: Seminar by Heather Stonyer, STEM-TEC, AUT, "Funding sources and opportunities for STEM education projects in New Zealand"

November 2014

29 November 2014: International Programming Challenge for Girls

28 November 2014: Meeting with investment managers from Tertiary Education Commission (TEC)

3-6 November 2014: Series of four seminars by Professor Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia

September 2014

17 September 2014: An Official Launch of the Centre by the Minister Steven Joyce

8 September 2014: Girls on Campus Day at AUT's South Campus

2 September 2014: STEM-TEC Seminar by Professor John Buckeridge, RMIT University, Australia, "The pursuit of academic fame: an exposé of deception"

1 September 2014: Member of STEM-TEC Kerri Spooner was enrolled into PhD

July 2014

7-10 July 2015: New Zealand Association of Mathematics Teachers Conference

June 2014

25 June 2014: STEM-TEC Seminar by Dr Murray Black, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, “Inquiry-Based learning in STEM subjects”

May 2014

21 May 2014: STEM-TEC Seminar by Steven Arnold, School of Education, “Thinking in Circles”

8 May 2014: STEM-TEC Seminar by Peter Maclaren, Centre for Learning and Teaching, “Back to the Future: Pen Enabled Tablets – Providing Interactive Handwritten Capabilities in Digital Environments”

April 2014

30 April – 2 May 2014: Professional Development Block Course for School Maths Teachers

27 April 2014: Seven projects from STEM-TEC received grants from AUT’s Learning and Teaching Development Fund totalling more than $40,000

12-13 April 2014: International NASA Space Apps Challenge

March 2014

20 March 2014: STEM-TEC Seminar by A/Prof Andy Begg, School of Education, "Educational Research and the STEM context"

January 2014

11-25 January 2014: Rotary National Science and Technology Forum

20-23 January 2014: Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference