From left to right:  Marvin Maldonado (SDSU MESA Schools Program Director), Rafael Alvarez (San Diego City College MESA Director), Christina Ramirez (Atkins Global/Sacramento MESA Program Alumna), Cynthia Peraza, PE (Atkins Global/SDSU MESA Program Alumna), Alex Yescas, PE, CFM (Atkins Global/SDSU MESA Program Alumnus), , Natasha Celise (SDSU MESA Program Director), Eric Pamintuan (SDSU MESA Program Coordinator).

Atkins Global Inc. presented a check for $7,500 to San Diego State University’s Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (SDSU MESA) Engineering program to benefit the MESA Leadership Summit 2015.

The MESA Leadership Summit is an annual weekend camping event with an agenda of seminars, workshops, and group projects designed to develop the leadership, communication, and presentation skills of engineering/physical science students.

MESA is nationally recognized for its innovative and effective academic development program, engages thousands of educationally disadvantaged students from middle school through a four-year college program, and provides support through classes, hands-on competitions, counseling, and transfer support to help students excel in math and science and graduate with math-based degrees.   MESA partners with industry and all major education institutions in California.

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Atkins (http://www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world’s leading design, engineering and project management consultancies*, employing some 17,500 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. Our people’s breadth and depth of expertise and drive to ask why has allowed us to plan, design and enable some of the world’s most complex and time critical projects.

*15th largest global design firm (Engineering News-Record 2014) and the third largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe (Svensk Teknik och Design 2013).