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MESA served as host to the fall meeting of the California Engineering Liaison Committee (ELC) last October, held at the CSU East Bay campus. The ELC, which promotes effective engineering education in the state, is comprised of over 150 deans and associate deans from colleges of engineering of the University of California system, the California State University system, independent universities and colleges and engineering professors from the California Community Colleges.
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NASA will be helping to mentor the MESA program at Edward Harris , Jr. Middle School in Elk Grove to enhance students’ science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The new collaboration is part of the space agency's activities at Harris, which was recently named as a national NASA Explorer School. MESA students and advisors Thu “Autumn” Nguyen and James Ponder were on hand at a recent ceremony to meet astronaut John Herrington and help receive a US flag flown in outer space. The school is part of the CSU Sacramento/UC Davis MESA Center.
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The CSU Fullerton MESA Center has partnered with the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim so that students from two local middle and senior high schools can use the state-of-the-art facility to work on MESA projects after school. Seventy MESA students from Brookhurst Intermediate and Savanna High Schools are using resources of the immense 13-acre Learning Center as an extended study center for their MESA activities. Additional active collaboration is being planned for the future.
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Eleven MESA students from Napa Valley College were selected to participate in UC Berkeley’s Environmental Leadership Pathway (ELP) program. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, ELP chose the Napa Valley College students for their interest in teaching careers in science, technology, engineering and math. This fall the students enrolled in a one-year Berkeley course in environmental science education that emphasized methods of scientific inquiry and empirical thinking. This classroom learning is augmented with practical K-12 classroom teaching experience and a summer research internship. ELP also helps prepare the students to successfully transfer to a four-year institution. The program is a collaboration between MESA, Napa Valley College’s Biology Department and UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources. |
Two MESA pre-college advisors, Nancy Frizzell and Rebecca J. Stegeman, were among the winners of the coveted 2007 Teachers of the Year for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. Frizzell’s “passion for science coupled with her creative and demonstrative lesson planning separates her from the pack,” noted an article in the Gilroy Dispatch. Frizzell teaches at South Valley Middle School in Gilroy. Stegeman, who teaches at Slonaker Academy in San Jose, was lauded by the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District: “Her commitment, creativity, enthusiasm and devotion to satisfying students’ curiosity make her a truly outstanding educator.” The schools are part of the San Jose State University MESA Center. |
A MESA Engineering Program team from San Francisco State University captured third place in the design contest held last fall at the national conference for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), held in Philadelphia. Students Tatania Cantu (SHPE student chapter president, computer engineering), Mathew Jaeger (team leader, mechanical engineering) and Thu Ya Maw (mechanical engineering) placed with their entry entitled “Fuel Cell Remote Control Car.” All team members are transfer students from MESA programs at Skyline and Cañada community colleges. The competition, sponsored by the Intel Corporation and the National Science Foundation, called for teams to design a commercially marketable product to be judged on creativity and technical merit. |
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