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The Fund for the Public Interest is a national non-profit organization that works to build support for non-profit organizations across the country. They run campaigns for the Sierra Club, the Human Rights Campaign, USPIRG, and Environment America.
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Comments closedCalifornia Connects offers a multi-pronged approach to increasing digital literacy and broadband access for underserved communities for whom computer and internet access is still a challenge. The project reaches these communities through two primary partner efforts:
The Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program serves economically disadvantaged, first generation community college students who come from underrepresented populations.
The Great Valley Center (GVC) is a non-profit organization targeting services to the Central Valley; residents with the lowest computer and broadband use, and high concentrations of Latinos who also have low computer and internet usage.
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Comments closedCompetition for all MESA programs segments in problem-solving sessions and/or robotics competition designed to promote teamwork, engineering and problem solving skill development.
The OLYMPICS competition has teams of 4 students solve technical problems in mathematics, chemistry, physics and engineering. The competition is broken down in 3 academic levels.
The ROBOTICS competition uses the LEGO Mind storm NXT 2.0 robotics kits for teams of 4 students to build robots to complete 2 challenges-an obstacle course, and a head-to-head competition. The exact nature of the obstacle course and battle will be distributed with the Robotics kits after teams are formulated beginning March 23rd.
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Comments closedSan Diego Sport Innovators is seeking assistance from students, graduates and professors in the fields of physics and engineering to make science simple for kids and parents at an interactive sports event during the San Diego Science Festival. Volunteers will be matched with entrepreneurs/inventors and exhibit reps to help explain some of the science behind the sports we love. In addition to helping kids get excited about science and engineering, this will be a great networking opportunity to meet the companies and people who are contributing the sport technology that is being displayed.
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Comments closedCook Elementary School in Chula Vista is looking for science students to judge their annual science fair. The Science Fair will be on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 from 12:00 – 3:00 pm.
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Comments closedUndergraduate and graduate students in engineering and physics are being sought to help excite the minds of K-12 students at the Science of Sports event, scheduled for March 22 at the Hall of Champions in Balboa Park, during the San Diego Science Festival. Volunteers will be paired with interactive sport displays being specially brought in for the event. Volunteers will team with the exhibitor representative to informally explain to visitors how and why the sport works.
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Pre-College students in the MESA Schools Program will be competing in the SDSU MESA Day Preliminaries with several projects, i.e. Windmill, Egg Drop, Popsicle Stick Bridges, Manila Folder Bridges, Mousetrap cars, and MUCH MORE, to determine who will represent the SDSU MSP at the MESA Day Regionals.
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Comments closedStudents experience application and interview selection process to work at various engineering and scientific firms in San Diego County from June 2011-August 2011. Great opportunity for career exploration.
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Comments closedThe 10th Annual Leadership Summit will take place at the Indian Hills Camp in Jamul on the weekend of February 11 – February 13, 2011. 50 MESA/MESA Engineering Program (MEP)/Maximizing Science Potential (MSP) students from San Diego City College, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, and the MESA Schools Programs in San Diego and Imperial Valley will participate in various competitions that will promote the use of their leadership skills and various strengths attributes.
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Comments closedTeams of high schoolers cheered as their robots rolled forward, pushing golf balls toward a net in a miniaturized version of soccer.
Mathematic Engineering Science Achievement held its third high school robotics competition Wednesday evening at Southwest High School with 35 teams participating. The middle school competition was Tuesday with 41 teams, said local MESA director Jeanette Ramos-Espino.
Students were sent kits to build their soccer-playing robots, she said. They got to design, program and build their robots to push a golf ball into a net.
The competition is to inspire students to go into engineering careers, she said. The top three finishers will move on to a competition in April in San Diego.
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