Press Releases
Math Contest Brings Out Competitive Edge
Top Teen Engineers Compete for State Title
MESA Teams Up with SanDisk to Mentor Students
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 18, 2016 Danielle McNamara 510-987-0230 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...
Google brings coding to the classroom for under-served students with near-peer program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 18, 2016 Danielle McNamara 510-987-0230 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...
Brazilian Secretaries of Education Visit California MESA Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 28, 2016 Danielle 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...
NVIDIA Promotes K-12 Coding with MESA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 8, 2016 Danielle McNamara (510) 987-0230 Press 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...
Bechtel Named MESA Champion
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 22, 2015 Danielle McNamara (510) 987-0230 Press 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...
STEM Student Leaders Connect with Silicon Valley Industry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 14, 2015 Danielle McNamara (510) 987-0230 Press 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...
All-female team from Compton named national engineering champions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 23, 2015 Danielle 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...