Building a functional model glider is difficult enough. Getting one that will, after takeoff, make a right turn at just the right degree and then land a specified distance from the launch area? Aerodynamics is not for amateurs. But it is promising – and humbling all...
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This researcher wants to help undocumented students find their place in STEM (Crosscut.com)
While growing up undocumented, Verónica Guajardo didn't see a place for herself in STEM. Now, she's a researcher who's helping students like herself find their own paths. ...Community college really set the foundation for how I would learn and how I would think and...
MESA Has a New Look!
MESA's looking fab at 50! We got a makeover for our next 50 years of STEM success! Guided by input from both internal and external partners, we developed a fresh, powerful and relatable new brand. Explore the new look and feel on our website, which features a new...
Thank you, Oracle
Once again, Oracle Academy is boosting computer science literacy where it’s most needed. Oracle Academy equipped MESA teachers with tools and training that will lead to thousands of students at low-performing schools getting hands-on experience in coding. Eight...
Never Settle: An Alumni Profile
MESA alumnus Jeffrey Aparicio shares his path and how he inspired his little brother to succeed. “My parents came to America and decided to settle in San Jose California because a relative lived there. We shared a two bedroom apartment with my uncle and my father’s...
Oracle Boosts CS Education
Oracle Academy equipped MESA teachers with tools and training that will lead to thousands of students at low-performing schools getting hands-on experience in coding. Eight MESA teachers from across the state took a five day boot camp on Java programming and how to...
Connecting Students, Industry to Launch STEM Careers
More than 200 diverse and driven undergrads descend on downtown Los Angeles in a step towards becoming the diverse leaders of tomorrow’s tech and engineering workforce. MESA’s Student Leadership Conference brings together hand-picked engineering and computer...
Alumni Q & A
Charles Anderson has his hand raised any time there’s an opportunity to help MESA. Anderson, the Principal Consultant and CEO of Anderson Pine Corporation, recently shed light on the road to entrepreneurship during a panel at MESA’s Student Leadership...
Google, Bourns Hosts Future Engineers
The 2019 MESA Day Finals are this weekend about a thousand students will converge at industry sites to compete and check out where engineers and scientists do their thing. They will create machines, crush bridges and code robotic arms in hopes of capturing a win. The...
Google, Bourns Hosts Future Engineers
The 2019 MESA Day Finals are this weekend about a thousand students will converge at industry sites to compete and check out where engineers and scientists do their thing. They will create machines, crush bridges and code robotic arms in hopes of capturing a win. The annual MESA Day competition is the culmination of students […]