2025 Flexi Conferences

Grab your exclusive opportunity to access an incredible range of PLD expert facilitators in one place at our upcoming event:

2025 Flexi Conferences – Christchurch co-hosted by Climate Action Campus

Join us

The conference starts

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 @1:00 pm

and finishes on

Friday, May 9, 2025 @3:00 pm

We have a 2 FOR 1 EARLY BIRD OFFER for all registrations completed by 14th March, 2025

Field-Based STEM run conferences throughout New Zealand - providing local and flexible PLD options for schools. Our conferences run over 3 days and teachers can opt into any time slot that works best. We have after school and after dark slots as well as morning and afternoon slots. Teachers can register for just one workshop or as many as they like ...

Our Conferences are designed to be as flexible and accessible as possible. You can attend for a morning, an afternoon, after school (4pm to 6.30 pm), after dark (6.30pm to 9 pm) or ANY COMBINATION

event Profile

Duration

3 days

cost

$285 for each workshop that you register for. We have an Early Bird 2 for 1 offer for any registration confirmed 2 or more months prior to the start date. This could be two teachers for the price of one or two workshops for the price of one etc

Location

Climate Action Campus

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On Camera

Engage your students through sharing and creating video. See how you and your ākonga can film, edit and share stories through video without the need for specialised equipment.

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Virtually there – create your own virtual field trips

In this workshop you will take part in an interactive virtual field trip and see how to plan, create, share and evaluate your own virtual field trip. See how online...

Glaciers – Now you see me… now you don’t

Our glaciers are disappearing due to climate change and receding glaciers are a major cause of sea level rise. Loss of glacial ice also threatens our water supplies and local...

Why Antarctica Matters

Antarctica is a unique natural laboratory that helps us understand the Earth's climate, ocean systems, and the impact of human activity.

The first Polynesians' Journey

When did the first Polynesians arrive and what inspired them to search for Aotearoa? How did they prepare for such a voyage, navigate and survive during the trip?

Looking back in time

Aotearoa/NZ is biologically the oldest place on this planet. A Dinosaur museum! Our native plants, insects, frogs, birds, lizards and many other creatures are the oldest in existence.

Marine life

What would it be like to live in the Ocean? Who are the animals that cope in this watery world, and how do they do it?

Puppet Play - Creating puppets for Education

Puppets have a unique ability to break through barriers to learning. Puppets allow the operator to step ‘outside themselves’ because the ‘performance’ transfers to the puppet.

Bringing Back Butterflies - How to create a butterfly habitat at your school for our endemic butterflies and encourage students to be kaitiaki.

This workshop will take you on a crash course on our local butterflies and to provide you with the know-how to create habitats, identify and scientifically pin our gorgeous Lepidoptera.

Local Curriculum Development - How to develop your school's own personal local curriculum.

In this workshop, we will delve into how to make a personalised local curriculum for your school.

After Dark

your facilitators for this conference

Richard de Hamel

Tom Coyle

Hari Mogoșanu – Milky-Way.Kiwi

Bianca Woyak

Ruud Kleinpaste – The Bugman

Sam Leske – Milky-Way.Kiwi

Overview

Field Based STEM run conferences throughout New Zealand – providing local and flexible PLD options for schools.

Our conferences run over three days, and teachers can opt into any time slot that works best. We have after-school and after-dark slots, as well as morning and afternoon slots. Teachers can register for just one workshop or as many as they like.

Registrations are now being taken for our Flexi Conferences which we are running throughout NZ. This site provides you with a range of workshops that are being offered outside the normal school day.

We have a 2 FOR 1 EARLY BIRD OFFER for all registrations completed two or more months before the start of the conference.

What's included

This site shows the wide variety of workshops available OUTSIDE normal school hours. To get more information about Conferences near you, simply click on the Booking Links. PLEASE NOTE, we finalise the workshops available after the 2 for 1 Early Bird offer expires – ie 2 months before the start date. You can still register right upto the start date, but some of the workshop options below, may have been removed….

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Work with us, reach for the stars

Check out our other conferences this year

2025 Flexi Conferences – Tauranga Conference. In association with New Zealand Astrobiology Network

2025 Flexi Conferences – Christchurch co-hosted by Climate Action Campus

2025 Flexi Conferences – Kapiti Conference

2025 Flexi Conferences – South Auckland / MIT Otara campus

2025 Flexi Conferences – Taupo Conference. Supported by Kids Greening Taupo

2025 Flexi Conferences – Summary of workshops