Press Releases

Connecting Students with Industry to Launch STEM Careers

Connecting Students with Industry to Launch STEM Careers

Highly visual event. Key times from 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, Mission Valley Marriott, San Diego Press visuals opportunities: diverse engineering undergraduate students engaging with STEM industry professionals. Interactive workshops, mock interviews,...

Oracle Boosts CS Education

Oracle Boosts CS Education

Oracle Academy equipped MESA teachers with tools and training that will lead to thousands of students at low-performing schools getting hands-on experience in coding. Eight MESA teachers from across the state took a five day boot camp on Java programming and how to...

Google, Bourns Hosts Future Engineers

Google, Bourns Hosts Future Engineers

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...

Future Engineers Show Off Skills in Hands-On Competitions

Future Engineers Show Off Skills in Hands-On Competitions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 25, 2019Danielle McNamara510.987.0230 Google will host more than 500 middle and high school students who will create machines, crush bridges and code robotic arms in hopes of capturing a win during MESA’s hands-on math, engineering and science competition championships Saturday, April 13th at the tech giant’s campus in Sunnyvale. Students will participate […]

Future Engineers Show Off Skills in Hands-On Competitions

Future Engineers Show Off Skills in Hands-on Competitions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 28, 2019Danielle McNamara510.987.0230 More than 700 middle and high school students will create machines, crush bridges and code robotic arms in hopes of capturing a win during MESA’s hands-on math, engineering and science competition championships Saturday, April 13th at the Bourns Technology Center in Riverside. Students will participate in the MESA Day […]

In Memoriam – Raymond B. Landis

The MESA family has lost a pioneer in the engineering education space with the passing of Raymond B Landis. In the early 1970s while a California State University, Northridge professor, Landis began developing the framework for an academic support program targeting minority engineering undergraduate students. His Minority Engineering Program became the model for MESA’s undergraduate […]

Connecting Students with Industry to Launch STEM Careers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2017 Danielle McNamara 510.987.0230   This month, 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 […]

Top Teen Engineers Head to National Contest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2017 Danielle McNamara 510.987.0230 California state champs vie for national championship in Philly California’s best and brightest future engineers will compete for top bragging rights and the title of national champs for creating the best code-powered prosthetic arm.  Students from CSU Fresno’s MESA center grabbed both middle and high school […]

California Teams Bring Home Second in Nationals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 6, 2016Danielle McNamara510-987-0230 Eight California MESA students claimed second place in the National Engineering Design Competition.    Both the middle and high school California state champion teams beat out teams from nine other states in building the best code-powered prosthetic arm. The championship was held June 22-25 in Ogden, Utah.   California’s middle school […]

Top Teen Engineers Head to Nat’l Contest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 16, 2016Danielle McNamara510-987-0230   California state champs vie for national championship in Utah   California’s best and brightest future engineers will compete for top bragging rights and the title of national champs for creating the best code-powered prosthetic arm.    Los Banos Junior High School and Costa Mesa High School were named […]