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2014 Leadership Summit Application

The 13th Annual San Diego MESA Alliance Leadership Summit, sponsored by Atkins, will take place at the Indian Hills Camp in Jamul on the weekend of February 28 – March 2, 2014 (Friday-Sunday).

MESA, MESA Engineering Program (MEP), and Maximizing Science Potential (MSP) students from San Diego State University, San Diego City College, Southwestern College, and high schools in the MESA Schools Program (San Diego and Imperial Valley) will participate in various seminars and competitions that will promote the use of their leadership skills and various strengths attributes.

Your completion of this application does not guarantee you a spot. The Leadership Summit is limited to ~10 students per campus. Applications will be reviewed by MESA Directors and Advisors. Students will be notified of selection via e-mail. Once selected, students will need to complete the Gallup Organization’s online Strengths Quest test prior to attending to determine their top strengths. These top strengths will be utilized throughout the Leadership Summit.

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Qualcomm Job Postings – January 16, 2014

Diversity and Inclusion are important elements of Qualcomm’s business and culture. Ensuring that we have a diverse employee base is an important element of this effort, which is why we are making direct outreach to diverse organizations, including those that work with Veterans and people with disabilities. Specifically, we are affirmatively working towards hiring African Americans and Women.

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Qualcomm Job Postings – December 11, 2013

Attached is a spreadsheet with jobs that are posted on our careers website.

You will need to apply on-line in order to be considered for a job opportunity, please be sure to include ‘Div13’ as the activity code when you apply this will help us locate your resume in the system.

Qualcomm Jobs- 2013-12-11

You may link to the Qualcomm Careers site after reviewing opportunities or go directly to the web site atwww.qualcomm.com/careers.

Diversity and Inclusion are important elements of Qualcomm’s business and culture. Ensuring that we have a diverse employee base is an important element of this effort, which is why we are making direct outreach to diverse organizations, including those that work with Veterans and people with disabilities. Specifically, we are affirmatively working towards hiring African Americans and Women.

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Affordable Schools Online

AffordableSchoolsOnline – is a comprehensive and informative resource that allows you to search for colleges and their respective tuition. Today’s students are not only dealing with a more competitive higher educational environment, but also the rising costs associated with them.

Determining what college program or university best matches your needs is a challenging, but rewarding, experience. It takes a lot of effort and time to compare schools, prepare for standardized tests, and to get an idea for what you want to study.
You can filter this list by school name, location, or tuition costs. By starting your search with cheap colleges that match your interests and educational goals, you are putting your best financial foot forward on the path to graduating with low amounts of student debt.

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2013 Shadow Day

Through the San Diego MESA Alliance, 121 students had a unique experience to witness the “real world” of work in an engineering or scientific environment.

Shadow Day is a great opportunity for our up and coming students to “test the waters” in a field of their interest and see first-hand how classroom skills relate to the workplace. Students were able to observe and work with a professional in action! Employers in STEM madee a positive impact on the lives of students; future engineers and scientists!

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Epidural Stimulation Following Spinal Cord Injury to Facilitate Stepping Through Neuromodulation

This seminar will provide an overview of a pilot study conducted in collaboration with the laboratory of Dr. V. Reggie Edgerton (UCLA) to develop a therapy for spinal cord-injured (SCI) patients that is based primarily on electrical stimulation. The study demonstrates that following a partial transverse spinal lesion (hemisection) at a lower thoracic level (T8-T9), the neural circuitry within the lumbar region that controls weight-bearing and stepping remains functional, and can be activated if appropriate sensory (afferent) information from the periphery is provided.

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