{"id":2,"date":"2018-03-07T03:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T03:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-04-11T00:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T00:06:58","slug":"stem-festival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2018 Festival<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Science| Technology | Engineering | Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, 2 May &#8211; Friday, 4 May<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For three days this May, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects will veer off the well-worn curriculum into areas that are, well, a little less traditional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A magician will show our boys how to spot a scam, hoax or \u2018science\u2019 that doesn\u2019t quite add up. They\u2019ll learn about robotics and artificial intelligence, start-ups and software development in the real world. There will be challenges involving mousetrap-powered vehicles and insights into what a job in engineering really involves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s all part of Newington College\u2019s biennial STEM Festival, which will run from Wednesday, 2 May to Friday, 4 May 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s not just our boys who\u2019ll take a step outside the box \u2013 we want parents to gets hands-on during the 2018 Festival. For the first time, we\u2019re introducing Periods 8 and 9, a chance for mums, dads and carers to go back to school to experience STEM subjects like never before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Festival is designed to excite interest in STEM subjects at Newington and in the wider community. It offers experiences outside the day-to-day curriculum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Past presenters have come from UNSW, USYD<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, MQ, <\/span><span class=\"s1\">the CSIRO, the Australian Astronomical Observatory, The Australian Museum, Questacon, The Australian Maritime Museum, Westmead Hospital, and ANSTO, and have shared knowledge about product design, milling, engineering, reptiles, insects, electrical circuit building, astronomy, forensic studies, chemical reactions and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Many past presenters are members of the Newington community, parents of current students and Newington Old Boys.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The STEM Festival is sponsored by the Newington College Parents and Friends Association. Their financial support allows every festival to be bigger and better, and we thank them for their continued backing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">David McNaughton\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>STEM FESTIVAL CO-ORDINATOR \/ MATHS AND COMPUTING TEACHER<\/strong><strong><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEM Festival 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-insites-home.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/stemfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}