“My parents came to America and decided to settle in San Jose California because a relative lived there. We shared a two bedroom apartment with my uncle and my father’s friend — there was about 7 people living there. My father was always working two jobs so I hardly got to see him. “In […]
ELAC, UCLA to partner to help veterans get degrees in sciences (Pasadena Star News)
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 […]
Stars Align for MESA Alum
Things keep looking up (way up) for MESA alumnus Victor Glover. NASA announced this month Glover is one of the crew set to fly on SpaceX and Boeing spaceships. These will be the first major flights on commercial craft by NASA astronauts and the first time astronauts have traveled to space from American ground since […]
Oracle Opens Door to Computer Science Careers
Oracle continues to expose students to computer science skills and careers through its longtime relationship with MESA. This summer MESA conducted 4 JAVA programming camps at UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Imperial Valley thanks to a generous grant from Oracle. Students learned the basics of JAVA and put their newfound knowledge to use […]
NASA Gives $1.4M for STEM Course Development at MSIs (Diverse)
Students Bring Home 2nd in National Competition
Congrats to the California MESA National Engineering Design Challenge winners! The California teams won second place overall in both middle and high school divisions. Isbell Middle School seventh graders Samanta Ivanez and Brandon Arana of the UC Santa Barbara MESA center beat out dozens of other middle school teams to compete in the national championship […]