The UC Office of the President has produced a short video about UC President Dynes's visit last year to UC Santa Cruz's MSP center. The video features Alan Brown, former Lockheed engineer, and his work with the students at Watsonville High School. The video appears on a website about UC's contributions to California's future.
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Contra Costa Times
8/2/08
State's science, math teachers honing skills in San Ramon
About 300 teachers from low-performing schools throughout the state are spending the weekend in San Ramon, learning how to foster an interest in math and science among their students.
The MESA Academy for Science and Mathematics Educators is being held at AT&T's regional headquarters. It started Friday and continues through Sunday, offering more than 50 workshops for attendees.
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Santa Barbara/Goleta Noozhawk
7/22/08
Santa Barbara Police Chief honors summer academy graduates
Young scholars of the College Readiness Academy were honored Tuesday afternoon at Casa de la Raza by Santa Barbara Police Chief Cam Sanchez.
Funded and staffed entirely by the Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement program at UCSB, CRA’s intensive five-week curriculum is focused on building math and science skills for students entering eighth and ninth grades.
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California Dept. of Education
7/17/08
State Schools Chief Jack O'Connell honors 4 student winners of a national math, engineering, science competition
MENDOTA — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell today congratulated
four students from Mendota (Fresno County) for winning the junior high school division of the Mathematics
Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) national competition last month in College Park, Maryland. O'Connell
noted their accomplishments at a ceremony and dinner held in their honor at Mendota
High School.
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Inside CSU Fullerton
7/8/08
High School Engineers Place Nationally -- Again
CSUF MESA-Sponsored Team Grabs Third Place in Baltimore
For the second year in a row, a team of young high school engineers from California State University,
Fullerton's Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement Program battled through several regional MESA
engineering design competitions to represent California in the nationals, where they placed third.
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Fresno Bee
6/16/08
Mendota students go national with catapult
The engineering project of four junior high students has launched them -- literally -- into a national competition in Baltimore.
The McCabe Junior High School students designed and built their state championship multitasking trebuchet, which is similar to a catapult. They will display their trebuchet when they compete at the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement national finals Friday and Saturday.
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Fresno State News
6/13/08
Mendota junior high students head to national engineering competition
A team from McCabe Junior High School in the small farmworker community of Mendota that beat tough competition in recent state runoffs at California State University, Fresno, will represent California in national engineering design competition.
Students Adelmo Alvarado, Edgar Juarez, Francisco Torres and Angel Hernandez will be in Baltimore, Md., on June 20-21 for the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) National Finals.
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The Vacaville Reporter
6/13/08
Science draws them in
MESA Academy students explore superconductivity
With cool white vapors of liquid nitrogen spilling across the lab table, a group wearing white laboratory coats and goggles gathered around to watch Robert Payawal make a magnet float in mid air.
The lab coats were worn by eight Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement students at Solano Community College taking part in a weeklong academy aimed at uncovering the mystery behind super- conductivity and magnetics.
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat
5/23/08
Building a better robot
The Woots and Snarks had temporarily gotten the better of student PJ Lassiter.
The Sonoma Academy junior bellied up to the testing table dotted with white and black cans, turned his robot to “on” and let it go. He immediately began biting his nails.
...The Woots and Snarks, named for the different colored cans, were there to trip up Lassiter’s team and other competitors during the fifth annual robotics contest sponsored by Santa Rosa Junior College and Agilent Technologies.
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Sacramento Bee
May 23, 2008
Scholarship to be handed out in honor of slain college student
A scholarship in honor of a slain UC Berkeley student will be awarded Saturday during a ceremony by the Sacramento State/UC Davis MESA Center.
The scholarship is funded with contributions made to the Rodrigo "Rod" Rodriguez Jr. Memorial Scholarship. Rodriguez, 21, was killed in September outside an
Oak Park barbershop where he worked while home on break from the university.
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Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register
May 10, 2008
COS student gets a $30,000-a-year scholarship
It was a typical day in Joe Cadena's differential equations class at College of the Sequoias.
Or so he thought.
Cadena, 26, and seven of his classmates were talking about the upcoming finals when the classroom door opened and in walked COS President Bill Scroggins, faculty members and the Associated Student Body president bearing balloons and a video camera.
"I didn't think anything of it," Cadena said. "I thought maybe they were there for my teacher or one of my classmates."
They were there because Cadena was among about 50 community college students in the nation chosen for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's prestigious undergraduate transfer scholarship.
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Chico Enterprise-Record
May 6, 2008
InnerView: Oya Ross-Walcott engineers her future
On a sunny Wednesday morning in April, Oya Ross-Walcott is having coffee at a
shop downtown. She focuses intently on her calculus homework with an
intimidating, four-inch thick text book.
Ross-Walcott is 19 and a freshman at Chico State University. Her classes include calculus, physics, graphics. "And manufacturing. It's fun, we learn to weld and use a lathe."
...She spent April 26 with eighth graders at a Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement activity at the university. MESA Day hosts minority junior high students for a day on campus with competitions and experiments.
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Monterey Herald
May 3, 2008
Hartnell science student earns $20,000 scholarship
It's not as if Ricky Fernandez grew up wanting to become a rocket scientist.
Still, when the 23-year-old Hartnell College student was in kindergarten, he told his teacher at Robert
Down Elementary School in Pacific Grove that he wanted to become a "space scientist" when he grew up.
"A professional artist made you sit down, and he drew you like you wanted to be — somebody wanted to be a cowboy — he drew me in a space suit with a NASA logo and an American flag," he said Friday. "It's pretty cool."
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
April 13, 2008
Weekend retreat in Happy Valley encourages budding scientists
When James McNett entered Cabrillo College two years ago, he thought he would study nursing.
On Saturday, the 30-year-old Happy Valley resident was calculating the horsepower of humans running up a flight of stairs and learning how much muscle it takes a person to power light bulbs.
McNett, who now aspires to become a biochemical engineer, was one of about 60 community college students who took part in the weekend-long Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement student leadership retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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The Press Democrat
March 22, 2008
Windsor High teacher Ramirez wins Harvard honor
When Harvard University asked its graduating seniors last year to name high school teachers who inspired them,
Windsor's Brian Gillis thought of Roberto Ramirez.
He credits Ramirez, who teaches physics and calculus at Windsor High School, with changing his life.
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"He'd find people who didn't realize their own potential and take them to places they didn't think they could go," Gillis said. "Mr. Ramirez has changed more lives than anyone I know."
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Watsonville Register-Pajaronian
March 17, 2008
Students launch their talent at MESA Day
Students from Santa Cruz and Monterey counties tested their skills and knowledge Saturday at the annual math, Science, Engineering Achievement Day Preliminary Competition at UC Santa Cruz.
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Watsonville Register-Pajaronian
March 13, 2008
Positive peer pressure
In the aging gymnasium of a small Watsonville church, a group of students were busy Wednesday morning building trebuchets - small wooden catapults. They were using the contraptions to hurl beanbags at a target 50 feet away, and loving every minute of it.
The students were preparing their projects for the Math, Engineering and Science Achievement contest this weekend at Santa Cruz.
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Fresno State Collegian
March 13, 2008
March 14, 2008: MESA sponsors Central Valley trebuchet contest
Richard the Lionheart used them to invade Muslim lands during the Crusades of the Middle Ages. Central Valley junior high and high school students used them to invade Fresno State’s South Gym on Saturday.
Trebuchets, weapons of castle destruction similar to catapults, became instruments of hands-on learning during a competition hosted by the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) Schools Program.
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The State Hornet (CSU Sacramento)
March 12, 2008
Fair to train engineers, fill state employment gap
Sacramento State students looking for a major that will guarantee them a career after graduation may want to look into the programs offered by the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences.
There is a severe shortage of engineers in the state of California, said Emir Macari, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences.
To help retain students in Sac State's engineering programs, Macari implemented
a peer coaching program. The program teams upper-division engineering students
with lower-division students meeting once a week to help keep students
motivated.
Macari based the peer-coaching program on a similar program established by the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement program.
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Windsor Times
February 21, 2008
Two high school teachers honored for excellence
Windsor High School math teacher Roberto Ramirez was selected as a finalist for the Harvard University Singer Prize for Excellence in Secondary Teaching. He was nominated by former student Brian Gillis, who is now a Harvard senior.
The Singer Prize is awarded each year to a teacher who has been nominated by a Harvard senior as an inspirational teacher. The recipient receives $3,000 and the teacher's school is also awarded a $2,500 stipend.
Gillis said he nominated Ramirez for his involvement in MESA (a program that aids Latino students), and for the extra care he takes in teaching math.
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Fresno Bee
February 9, 2008
Students dive into engineering
Forget about love making the world go round. It's people skilled in math, engineering and science who keep things going, and 400 central San Joaquin Valley middle and high school students learned how important these folks are during some hands-on workshops Saturday at Fresno State. The event, sponsored by the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement Program at California State University, Fresno, gave students a chance to build robots, rockets, airplanes and other projects -- all of which utilize the technical learning that engineers use on their jobs every day.
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UWeek.org
February 7, 2008
Dorsey to head state's Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program
A program for encouraging more underrepresented groups in Washington State to pursue science and technology careers has named James Dorsey as its new executive director. Dorsey's professional background includes 25 years in California advancing education equity. Dorsey plans to use his expertise to expand Washington's K-12 program to reach students in community colleges.
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Beyond Chron Online Daily
January 24, 2008
School Beat: MESA--Nurturing New Scientists
Ensuring that all children receive a quality education is one of our society’s most important goals and one of our biggest challenges. .. Fortunately for those of us in the Bay Area, we have a program... based in the University of California system called California MESA (Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement), which has been modeled after by eight other states, together forming MESA USA.
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CSU Fullerton Inside
January 7, 2008
From the Open Range of Montana to Cal State Fullerton
When Vonna Hammerschmitt has the chance, she likes to vaccinate calves, doctor sick cows and watch deer and elk. What is she doing here at a major university?
Your guess is likely to be wrong. Hammerschmitt, director of the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement program (MESA) since 1986, is helping guide young people — much like she did as a teacher, first in Montana, then inner-city Los Angeles and Huntington Beach. Her winding path to Cal State Fullerton started in Montana, where the seeds to helping young people select future careers all began.
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