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...
From access to healthcare for low income residents to rapid exchange of info for isolated rural communities, MESA undergraduate students identified and attempted to solve problems with a combination of tech know how and empathy. These were the winning submissions of...
For Monica Noori-Saghar MESA means progress. As a first generation college student, she began her STEM journey at Diablo Valley College. She was active in MESA and the program led her to transfer to San Jose State University which also has a MESA center. Monica was...
Both California MESA National Engineering Design Competition teams took home second place in creating a solution to help their communities. Costa Mesa High School and Costa Mesa Middle School — both from the UC Irvine MESA center — teams bested other teams locally,...