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...
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...
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 […]
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 science students with industry professionals to develop the next generation of STEM leaders. Held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel […]
“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 so I hardly got to see him. “In […]
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 have traveled to space from American ground since […]
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 Oracle. Students learned the basics of JAVA and put their newfound knowledge to use […]
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 center beat out dozens of other middle school teams to compete in the national championship […]
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 for historically underserved students can make a huge difference in […]