Our board chair catches us up on our new virtual series hosted on MESASpace, Candid Conversations. These sessions create a private, respectful space to engage in honest dialogue about experiences, challenges and topics that may not always feel safe to explore in other...
Sal Varela, a MESA alum and longtime volunteer, recently accepted to join the MESA Industry Advisory Board. We asked Sal a few questions. Tell us your MESA Story I am originally from the East Bay – Oakland, CA and attended middle school in Hayward, California. One...
Two Mendota High School students have brought a national engineering championship back to the Central Valley after designing an innovative mental health solution to support students in underserved schools. Juniors Jonathan Alfaro Saravia and Christopher Torres-Alfaro...
It's that time again! MESA teams from seven states are headed to Maryland for the National Engineering Design Competition. Team Plant Vitals from Los Nietos Middle School snagged the No. 1 spot. Team members Andrew Lim, Angel Leon and Andrew Valdivia -- all 8th...
Winning teams from across California will vie for top bragging rights at the MESA National Engineering Design Competition State Championship in San Jose this weekend. This competition is the culmination of a year’s worth of learning, planning, designing,...
Katya Echazarreta is many things: electrical engineer, MESA alumna, science communicator, citizen astronaut, Vogue Mexico cover model. She'll add Ray Landis Impact Award winner to that list, which is given to a visionary in diversity and STEM education. Katya who...
The Bay Area and Southern California will both rep the Golden State at this month's MESA National Engineering Design Competition (NEDC) in New Mexico. Student teams from Orchard Park Middle School in the Antioch Unified School District and Costa Mesa High School in...
Join MESA alumni from across the country during the first ever MESA USA alumni webinars this month. Two panels -- one highlighting alumni in their early careers and one on later career professionals -- will stream during the 2022 MESA USA convening, Tuesday June 21 at...
The MESA Idea Accelerator project is an 8-week long course that will engage students in developing solutions to societal problems using a human centered design process. The course culminates with a pitch presentation that will be judged by industry members. Through...
Solving the diversity problem in the tech world is a complicated problem. Many tech companies have committed to improving their hiring practices but there's still much progress to be made. In fact, most companies have yet to move the needle by any...