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...
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Coding takes biomedical engineering competition to next level
Let’s face it: We all want to code. From President Obama to Will.i.am everyone is on a coding kick. MESA has held coding competitions for years, but a new partnership has expanded that effort into a new national competition. In preparation for the new...
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 Superintendent...
MESA tapped as STEM authority
MESA Executive Director Dr. Oscar Porter will be an expert panelist during the fourth annual U.S. News STEM Solutions conference in San Diego next week. The conference will draw more than 1,500 stakeholders from all sectors of the national STEM community to San...
All-female Compton team wins big
Years of hands-on learning paid off for Dominguez High School graduates Azucena Castro and Jennifer Barrientos when they were named the 2015 MESA USA National Engineering Design Challenge champions. On June 17-20, Azucena and Jennifer represented California in...
Hands-on STEM success
Hands-on learning and project-based learning have become buzz terms in the STEM education world recently. But MESA students have been using the math and science concepts they learn in the classroom to create engineering projects for decades. MESA Days --...
California’s future leaders
During a day and a half, students learned how laws are formed, how to advocate for an organization, how to be a leader and visited the California capital to meet with legislators. This jam-packed 36 hours is the Student Leadership Conference (SLF). The event...
Project-based learning is MESA’s specialty
Most middle and high schools are well under way in the second half of the school year and for MESA students that means one thing – MESA Day projects. Competing in these projects are a key component of the MESA model for pre-college students. Prosthetic arms,...
Tackling Workforce Diversity
Recently some Silicon Valley corporations released their diversity numbers and there is no time like the present to address this topic. Diversity is critical for superior long-term performance and success. So MESA along with the Mountain View Chamber of...
Mentor with MESA
We’re starting off 2015 with an eye to mentoring. January is National Mentoring Month. And for good reason – mentoring works. Studies show mentoring is linked to higher academic achievement and career success. That’s why Cisco leadership teamed up with...