by danielle | Sep 12, 2018 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
“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 friend — there was about 7 people living there. My father was always working two jobs...
by danielle | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
Things keep looking up (way up) for MESA alumnus Victor Glover. NASA announced this month Glover is one of the crew set to fly on SpaceX and Boeing spaceships. These will be the first major flights on commercial craft by NASA astronauts and the first time astronauts...
by danielle | Aug 1, 2018 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
Oracle continues to expose students to computer science skills and careers through its longtime relationship with MESA. This summer MESA conducted 4 JAVA programming camps at UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Imperial Valley thanks to a generous grant from...
by danielle | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
Congrats to the California MESA National Engineering Design Challenge winners! The California teams won second place overall in both middle and high school divisions. Isbell Middle School seventh graders Samanta Ivanez and Brandon Arana of the UC Santa Barbara MESA...
by danielle | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
As Computer Science Education Week winds down and more than 480 million people have participated in the Hour of Code, we still know this topic is much too important to embrace for just seven days. We know that coding and other computer science literacy, particularly...
