Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 9, 2016Danielle McNamara510-987-0230   Conference scholarship is Oracle’s latest effort to empower MESA students and teachers in coding and computer science   Sixteen middle and high school teachers from across California will gain coding skills and educational inspiration thanks to a generous scholarship from Oracle Academy. Teachers will attend the Computer Science […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 19, 2016Danielle McNamara510-987-0230   MESA student-teams across the state brushed up on their algebra while vying for bragging rights in the program’s annual Math Challenge.   Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) conducted the 60-minute test that is modeled after the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year College’s Student Math League test. More than […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 11, 2016Danielle McNamara510-987-0230   UC Irvine hosts robotic prosthetic arm championship this weekend Winners head to nationals next month in Utah   California’s best and brightest future engineers will compete for top bragging rights and the title of state champs for creating the best code-powered prosthetic arm.    The top four middle […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 18, 2016Danielle McNamara510-987-0230  MESA, a  STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education program, today announced that it is joining forces with SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 18, 2016Danielle McNamara510-987-0230  MESA's "Cascade the Code" empowers university students to teach coding to middle, high schoolers More than 2,000 MESA middle and high school students throughout California will gain coding...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 28, 2016Danielle McNamara(510) 987-0230 Three Brazilian state secretaries of education visited the MESA program at San Jose State University yesterday to explore replicating the model in the South American country. The visit was...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 8, 2016Danielle McNamara(510) 987-0230Press Release More than 200 MESA teachers and 1,000 students across the state will boost their coding know-how through a $25,000 NVIDIA grant. The Santa Clara-based technology company will...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 22, 2015Danielle McNamara(510) 987-0230Press Release The S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation was named the 2015 MESA Champion for the company’s long history of support of the program. Bechtel will be honored at the 12th Annual MESA...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 14, 2015Danielle McNamara(510) 987-0230Press Release A select group of 200 community college and university students will hone their leadership skills at a special invitation-only conference for math-based majors in the country’s...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 23, 2015Danielle McNamara(510) 987-0230 Press Release   A year of hard work through hands-on learning landed two students from Dominguez High School in Compton, California as national champions of the Mathematics, Engineering, Science...