by danielle | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
While Americans across the nation are contributing to lower productivity, office bracket pools and business-hours basketball viewing, MESA has a little March Madness of its own going on. This month marks the time of year when MESA students also get their...
by danielle | Mar 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Each year during National Engineers Week we celebrate how engineers make a difference, but California is increasingly strapped for highly educated professionals to fill those jobs. California will need a total of 1.1 million STEM jobs by 2018, which is a 19...
by danielle | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
As National Mentoring Month comes to a close, a new collaboration will connect even more industry mentors with MESA students pursuing STEM degrees. SanDisk, the memory storage solutions company, is teaming up with MESA to launch a mentor program. The...
by danielle | Jan 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
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 fund ongoing teacher professional development in coding as well as hardware purchasing for...
by danielle | Dec 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
After twenty years with MESA, the last nine as Executive Director, I am retiring. At such a time one cannot help but become retrospective. Day-to-day you focus on the MESA students and you worry about their futures and you try to measure their progress and success....
by danielle | Dec 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last week, California lawmakers and business leaders called for computer science in high schools to be upgraded from an elective to a core math class for college admissions. This week, which is designated Computer Science Education Week, educators and...
