…Rebekah and Team A.I. are among the groups that will head to San Diego after placing in the Top Three at the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement robotics competition held Saturday at Imperial High School. Imperial Valley Press Online, 1/21/12

Teams consisting of MESA students at San Diego State University, San Diego City College, Southwestern Community College, Imperial Valley High School, and Holtville High School competed against each other in exams that spanned Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and some Engineering material.

Each campus was also allowed up to 3 teams who would program a LEGO MindStorm NXT robotics kit to compete in 2 missions. The first mission required speed and intelligence to maneuver from a home area through a slalom course. The second mission was a combination control and head-to-head event where robots raced to collect the most LEGO pieces and return them back to their home base under a constrained area and time limit.

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 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.

Teams 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.

Teams consisting of MESA students at San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego City College (SDCC), Southwestern Community College (SWC), Morse High School, Imperial Valley High School, and William Moreno Jr. High School competed against each other in exams that spanned Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and some Engineering material.

Each campus was also allowed up to 3 teams who would program a LEGO MindStorm NXT robotics kit to compete in 2 missions. The first mission required speed and intelligence to maneuver from a home area through a slalom course. The second mission was a combination control and head-to-head event where robots raced to collect the most LEGO pieces and return them back to their home base under a constrained area and time limit.

Students Compete in Calculator, Robotics Competition

Bragging rights, prizes and some extra math practice are on the line for more than 100 students during the 17th Annual MESA Olympics this Saturday, April 17.

Imperial Valley Press Online staff writer Elizabeth Varin covered the Imperial Valley MESA program’s Robotics Competition in the articles, ‘Imperial County MESA program hosts robotic competition‘ and ‘MESA students more likely to head off to college than others in Imperial County‘.

The 16th Annual Calculator Olympics and Robotics Challenge event was held on Saturday, April 18th, 2009 at San Diego City College.

Teams consisting of MESA students at San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego City College (SDCC), Southwestern Community College (SWC), and participating schools from Imperial Valley and San Diego MESA Schools Programs competed against each other in exams that included Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and some Engineering material.

Each school was also allowed 1-2 teams who would program a LEGO Mindstorm NXT robotics kit to compete in2 missions. The first mission required speed and intelligence to maneuver through each checkpoint correctly. The second mission was a head-to-head competition in that robots raced to collect the most LEGO pieces under a constrained area and time limit.

April 18 2008 @ San Diego City College, 67+ student and volunteer participants.
Teams from San Diego State University, San Diego City College, and Southwestern Community College compete against each other in exams that include Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and some Engineering material. Each school will also have 1-2 teams who will program its robot to compete in two heats. Sign up sheets are usually on hand at each MESA centers’ respective offices prior to Spring Break.