( Elizabeth Varin ) Adalberto Lopez, 13, of Holtville watches his team¿s robot, Los Ratones, move through a maze to pick up balls and deliver them at the MESA robotics competition Saturday at Imperial High School.

…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

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94 MESA students & staff across the MESA programs at San Diego State University, San Diego City College, Southwestern College, and from high schools in San Diego and Imperial Valley who are part of the MESA Schools Programs in their counties participated in the competition.

The competition 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:

1. Level 1 is the beginner level. Students competing at this level are high school seniors or freshmen. The competition worksheet includes problems from Introduction to Chemistry, Algebra, Trigonometry, and Pre-Calculus.
2. Level 2 is the intermediate level. Students competing at this level are college freshmen and sophomores. The competition worksheet includes problems up through General Chemistry, 1st and 2nd semester Calculus (high school equivalent is A.P. Calculus), and 1st semester Physics (i.e. Mechanics).
3. Level 3 is the advanced level. Students competing at this level are juniors and seniors. The competition worksheet contains problems up through Calculus 3, Differential Equations, Physics 2 + 3 (i.e. Electromagnetism), Statics, Dynamics, Fluids, Ethics, and other E.I.T. material.

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. Only 3 robotics teams are allowed per campus.

MESA alumni and current industry members Maria Charles of Hamilton Sundstrand and Hattie Perez of NAVAIR proctored the Levels 1 and 2 Olympics exams, respectively.  Mrs. Charles also donated $10 iTunes giftcards and 8GB PNY flash drives for use as prizes.

Competition results:

Robotics Competition:

3rd place overall winners (bronze medal & wireless mouse):

Imperial Valley – Holtville High

1. Luis Lopez
2. Raul Gonzalez
3. Josue Mejia

2nd place overall winners (silver medal & Duracell MyGrid charging pad):

San Diego State University

1. Jose Luis Espinosa
2. Josue Quinonez
3. Cody Alcantar
4. Renae Anderson

1st place overall winners (gold medal & portable hard drive):

Southwestern College

1. Adrian DeLeon
2. Jehir Imperial
3. Austin McGuyver

Olympics Competiton:

3rd place Level 3 winners (bronze medal & $10 iTunes giftcard):

San Diego City College

1. Han Nguyen
2. Jorge Gomez
3. Ashley Pourarazy
4. Jacqueline Lagunas

2nd place Level 3 winners (silver medal & 8GB PNY flash drive):

Southwestern College

1. Alfredo Perez
2. Elba Gonzalez
3. Prabath Herath
4. Johan Arias

1st place Level 3 winners (gold medal & 2GB wireless laser pointer presenter):

San Diego State University

1. Arielle Nuspl
2. Brandon Pollack
3. Carlos Jimenez
4. Phillip Patague

Olympics Competition:

3rd place Level 2 winners (bronze medal & $10 iTunes giftcard):

San Diego State University

1. Trang Duong
2. Jastine Ortiz
3. Diane Aceveda
4. Alejandro Castro

2nd place Level 2 winners (silver medal & 8GB PNY flash drive):

Southwestern College

1. Ulises Medina
2. Imran Yasin
3. Ian Colinas
4. Yuri Swarovski

1st place Level 2 winners (gold medal & digital voice recorder):

San Diego State University

1. Whitney Boehm
2. Hoang “Susie” Nguyen
3. Emerson Revolorio
4. Henok Tadesse

Olympics Competition:

3rd place Level 1 winners (bronze medal & $10 iTunes giftcard):

San Diego City College

1. Alvaro Valera
2. Jessenia Lara
3. Alondra Galvan

2nd place Level 1 winners (silver medal & 8GB PNY flash drive):

Imperial Valley – Holtville High

1. Luis Lopez
2. Raul Gonzalez

1st place Level 1 winner (gold medal & 1GB wireless laser pointer presenter):

Southwestern College

1. Stephanie Hernandez
2. Ramira Rodriguez
3. Maite Totorika
4. Eskefanra Rojas

Additional photo coverage can be found at the SDMA Facebook page.

18th Annual MESA Olympics & Robotics Competition
Saturday, April 30, 2011. 8:30 – 2:00 pm at San Diego City College.

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Event purpose:
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:

2011 Olympics Worksheet Rules

• Level 1 is the beginner level. Students competing at this level are high school seniors or freshmen. The competition worksheet includes problems from Introduction to Chemistry, Algebra, Trigonometry, and Pre-Calculus.

Olympics Level 1 key

• Level 2 is the intermediate level. Students competing at this level are college freshmen and sophomores. The competition worksheet includes problems up through General Chemistry, 1st and 2nd semester Calculus (high school equivalent is A.P. Calculus), and 1st semester Physics (i.e. Mechanics).

Olympics Level 2 key

• Level 3 is the advanced level. Students competing at this level are juniors and seniors. The competition worksheet contains problems up through Calculus 3, Differential Equations, Physics 2 + 3 (i.e. Electromagnetism), Statics, Dynamics, Fluids, Ethics, and other E.I.T. material.

Olympics Level 3 Key

Practice competition worksheets and guidelines will be distributed after teams are formulated beginning March 23rd.

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. Only 3 robotics teams are allowed per campus.

Robotics Challenge – 2011

Sign Up info:
See your respective MESA centers for more information. Prior San Diego MESA Alliance Olympics & Robotics Competition events can be found @ http://alliance.sdccmesa.com/?s=olympics&x=0&y=0

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.

This was the first year the event was on weekdays as schools and teachers had asked for it to be moved, she said. Previously it had coincided with weekend holiday events.
Some didn’t like the new days.

High School Results for Robotics Competition:
1st Place:Team Legotron LJRCM 300 , Holtville High
Luis Lopez, Josue Mejia, Raul Gonzalez, David Zamora

2nd place: IRobot, Imperial High
Stephanie Garcia, Karina Alcala, Jovanni Hernandez, Adrian Baez, Jose Calderon

3rd place: Aigoo Ka Sob, Imperial High
Erika Soto, Steven Orozco, Aya Ali, Jolina Bunda, Debbie Kim

Middle School Results for Robotics Competition:
1st place: Meadows School
Kazandra Jacobo, Vanessa Parra, Taylor Hanson, & Lorena Canez

2nd place: Meadows School Advisor:
Francisco Vargas, Angel Lemus, Tiffani Canez, & Andrew Real

3rd place: Holtville Middle
Jaime Garcia, Jenny Ortega, Cameron Aragon, Cynthia Cortez & Antonio Reyes

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A LEGO Mindstorm races to return LEGOs back to its homebase.

The 17th Annual MESA Olympics and Robotics Challenge event was held on Saturday, April 17th, 2010 at San Diego City College.  108+ students and volunteers participated.

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, Southwest 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.

Olympics Level 1 winners:

3rd place:  San Diego City College
1 Troast Nick
2 Deleon Mario
3 Suarez Fredy
4 Gonzalez Bretzner

2nd place:  San Diego City College
1 Taylor Kiedra
2 Spencer Ted
3 Ridgell Latina
4 Baldati-rice Yvette

1st place: Southwestern College
1 Sanchez Frank
2 Osuga Takesi
3 Ordonez Jorge
4 Martinez Andrea

Olympics Level 2 winners:

3rd place:  San Diego State University
1 Duenas Brianna
2 Garcia Matthew
3 Alonzo David

2nd place:  Southwestern College
1 Guerrero Hector
2 Viva David
3 Hernandez Gustavo
4 Godinez Edmundo

1st place:  Southwestern College
1 Ascenico Ana
2 Imran Yasmin
3 Svoroski Yari
4 Cacillas Enrique

Olympics Level 3 winners:

3rd place:  San Diego State University
1 Hale Irene
2 Gomez Roberto

2nd place:  San Diego City College
1 Yepiz Frank
2 Huynh Hung
3 Davidson Jessie
4 Nichol Misty

1st place:  Southwestern College
1 Herath Chatura
2 Gianino Mark
3 Bureaud Eric
4 Huang Lihua

Robotics Challenge winners:

3rd place:  San Diego City College
1 Gomez Jorge
2 Long Dana

2nd place:  San Diego City College
1 Troast Nick
2 Gonzalez Bretzner
3 Deleon Mario
4 Suarez Fredy

1st place:  Southwest High School
1 Rodriguez Daniela
2 Martinez Andrew
3 Ramos Frederick

Special thanks:

Prize sponsors:

• The National Science Foundation
• LG Electronics

San Diego MESA Alliance Industry Advisory Board volunteers, MESA Schools Program advisers, San Diego City College faculty, MESA staff, family and friends:

• Brianna Lutes of Infrastructure Engineering Corporation
• Daisy Galeana of Solar Turbines
• Dr. Douglas Fenner of SPAWAR
• Maria Victoria Charles of Hamilton Sundstrand
• Southwest High School MESA Advisor Ms. Sullivan
• William Moreno Jr High School MESA Advisor Mr. Magallanes

Additional photo coverage can be found at the San Diego MESA Alliance Facebook Page.

For Immediate Release Danielle McNamara (510)987-0230
April 13, 2010 danielle.mcnamara@ucop.edu

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.

The event, held by Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) programs in the San Diego and Imperial Valley area, allows students to work in teams on multi-level calculator contests and a robotics challenge.

“This event helps students review material in a fun method just before midterms and finals,” said San Diego State MESA Engineering Program Director Theresa Garcia. San Diego State, San Diego City College, Southwestern College and Imperial Valley all host MESA programs and make up the San Diego MESA Alliance which sponsors the Olympics.

MESA students from middle school, high school, community college and four-year colleges will compete in subjects such as algebra, chemistry, calculus, physics, and circuits. The robotics teams will have to make the robot zigzag between obstacles or compete in a head to head competition to collect objects.

Industry partners and MESA alumni will judge the events.

MESA, an academic preparation program that serves 20,249 California pre-college, community college and university students who are educationally disadvantaged, is an awarding winning model with a high success rate. Eighty-one percent of MESA high school graduates statewide went directly to college after graduation compared to 47 percent of all California graduates. Fifty-seven percent of MESA students go on as math, science or engineering majors. In the San Diego area, MESA serves about 1,700 students from elementary school to community college and four-year college at five centers.

Considering that 17 of the top 20 fastest growing jobs in the country are in STEM fields and in 2001, more than 14,000 California jobs requiring science or engineering degrees went unfulfilled, successful programs such as MESA are an imperative.

Who: More than 100 middle school, high school, community college and four year college students interested in math, science and engineering

http://mesa.ucop.edu/news/pressreleases/competition_0410.html

When: Saturday, April 17 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: San Diego City College, 1313 Park Boulevard, San Diego.

For more information about the San Diego Alliance visit http://alliance.sdccmesa.com.
For more information about MESA visit http://mesa.ucop.edu/home.html.
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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.

Special thanks to the events prize sponsors, Sony and the National Science Foundation, and San Diego MESA Alliance Industry Advisory Board volunteers, Carol Gooden of NASLAND Engineering and Brianna Lutes of Infrastructure Engineering Corporation, the MESA Schools Program advisors, and all of the MESA staff.

Robotics Challenge

1st place – SDSU – winners of Sony handycam.

2nd place – Calipatria High School – winners of portable 250GB hard drive.

3rd place – De Anza High School – winners of 7″ digital photo frame.

Calculator Olympics Level 1

1st place – SWC – winners of Sony 8GB Walkman (black).

2nd place – SDSU – winners of Sansa 2GB MP3 players.

3rd place – Southwest High School – winners of Sony 1GB Walkman (blue).

Calculator Olympics Level 2

1st place – SWC – winners of portable 230GB hard drive (black and blue).

2nd place – SDSU – winners of Bamboo PC tablets with pen.

3rd place – SDSU – winners of Plantronics Bluetooth headset with free pairing service.

Calculator Olympics Level 3

1st place – SDSU – winners of Sony portable DVD player.

2nd place – SDCC – winners of Apple iPod 4GB shuffle with voiceover feature.

3rd place – SDSU – winners of 8GB USB flash drive.

Additional photo coverage can be found at the San Diego MESA Alliance Facebook page.

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.