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Almost 150 youngsters had their inner Einstein nudged last week, as they dissected fish, fermented yeast and built and programmed robots, among other things.
It was part of the Hawke’s Bay Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s commitment to showing children that science, technology and mathematics “are sexy subjects”.
The Year 7 and 8 students from 15 schools across Hastings, Napier and Central Hawke’s Bay took part in half-day hands-on workshops last Tuesday and Wednesday.

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A small team of Kiwi scientists expect to keep working with SpaceX as the California-based company makes an ambitious push for Mars.
On its Facebook page, SpaceX has just announced plans to send its unmanned Dragon space craft to the red planet as early as 2018.
The missions - a partnership with Nasa - would help demonstrate the technologies needed to land large payloads propulsively on Mars, the company said.
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