by danielle | Jul 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by danielle | Jun 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by danielle | Jun 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by danielle | Jun 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
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 —...
by danielle | May 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by danielle | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
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,...
