Leadership, Networking in Silicon Valley

Building strong leadership skills among STEM students is a key tenant of MESA’s method. MESA provides students all along the education continuum ways to benefit from the communication, networking and other soft skills that create successful STEM...

Partner spotlight: Cisco

A key part to MESA’s success lies in the program’s long history of strong industry partnerships. Recently, Cisco Systems, Inc. has teamed up with MESA in a number of ways. The technology company’s largest collaboration is the MESA Cisco...

MESA hero, mother passes away

The MESA family has lost an early pioneer of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education realm with the passing of the program’s co-founder Mary Perry Smith. MESA began in 1970 with Smith and other visionaries, who wanted to develop academic...

National Engineering Competition Winners Honored

MESA’s National Engineering Design Competition champions, Azucena Castro and Jennifer Barrientos, were given star treatment at the California state capital last week.   The recent Dominguez High School graduates were invited to Sacramento by State...