As Computer Science Education Week winds down and more than 480 million people have participated in the Hour of Code, we still know this topic is much too important to embrace for just seven days. We know that coding and other computer science literacy, particularly for historically underserved students can make a huge difference in […]

Solving the diversity problem in the tech world is a complicated problem.  Many tech companies have committed to improving their hiring practices but there’s still much progress to be made.  In fact, most companies have yet to move the needle by any meaningful degree.   Next month, more than 200 diverse and driven undergrads descend […]

Thanks to funding from Oracle, MESA recently concluded 6 JAVA summer programming camps for middle and high school students throughout California. Over 250 MESA students participated in the summer camps where they received hands-on experience about the various ways computer science can be applied, from building websites, to coding applications, to creating video games, to writing code […]