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San Diego STEM Summit – Call for Volunteers

Published April 25, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

The San Diego STEM Collaboratory, a network of regional partners whose mission it is to
prepare California’s most STEM-capable graduates, in partnership with the San Diego Science
Alliance (SDSA) is hosting the inaugural San Diego STEM Summit: Transforming Ideas into
Action on Friday, May 3, 2013, at Grossmont College – Griffin Gate. The 2013 Summit will
bring together more than 150 leaders working in PK-12 and higher education, business and
industry, policy, philanthropy, NGOs and governmental agencies to share and scale existing
partnerships and programs championing STEM Education.

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Imperial Valley’s MESA center to host regional event on April 20

Published April 16, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

Brenda Huerta (left), Imperial Valley Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement assistant coordinator, and Melissa Lizarraga, IVMESA program coordinator, talk about their preparations for the “Middle School Regional MESA Day” at their office in El Centro on Thursday. Lizarraga said MESA Day is scheduled April 20 at Imperial Valley College and anticipates more than 250 participants from the University of California Irvine, UC Riverside, Chapman University, San Diego State University, and Imperial Valley MESA. (JOSELITO VILLERO PHOTO / April 5, 2013)

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College Shadow Day

Published March 26, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

On March 19, 2013, 8 high school Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) students from North County Trade Tech High School were matched with their university counterparts in the San Diego State University (SDSU) MESA Engineering & Maximizing Science Potential program, based on major and interests.

The SDSU students allowed the high schoolers to ‘shadow’ them throughout the day, which meant bringing them along to classes, visiting labs, touring the beautiful SDSU campus, and sharing their college experience (both good and bad). For some high school students, this was their first college experience or their first time on a college campus.

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Olympics & Robotics Competition Signup

Published March 25, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

Our San Diego MESA Alliance (SDMA) that includes the MESA programs at San Diego City College, Southwestern College, and MESA Schools Programs in San Diego and Imperial Valley are beginning to take student sign-ups for:

20th Annual MESA Olympics & Robotics Competition

Competition 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 up to 4 MESA students to build robots to complete 2 challenges-an obstacle course, and a head-to-head competition. The nature of the obstacle course and battle will be distributed with the Robotics kits after teams are formulated and also found below.

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