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Announcing MESA Day 2025

We are so excited to announce MESA’s culminating event of the year: MESA Day 2025, happening on Friday, May 16th 2025! The event is an opportunity for all of our middle and high school students to engage in hands-on competition, career exploration, and college preparation.  After showcasing their projects last month at Demo Day, our young inventors will travel to the Portland State University campus from all over the state to participate in engineering challenges centered around the theme of Climate Action: Designing for Environmental Sustainability, meet inspiring STEM professionals, visit college booths, and showcase their annual projects.

Four students pose outdoors, smiling and making peace signs. Two wear blue MESA Day 2025 shirts with an earth graphic, while one holds an arm up playfully. Green trees and a building are visible in the background.

Volunteer at MESA Day 2025

While MESA Day isn’t open to the public, we hope you will join us as a volunteer! Joining us as a volunteer is the perfect way to support our mission of a more equitable STEM future and get a front row seat to witness our students’ ingenuity! You can bring your company or organization to MESA Day and join us with your team, or you can explore the wide variety of individual roles and shifts we are offering our MESA volunteers. Check out our volunteer form and sign up today!

Two women wearing blue shirts kneel on the floor in a stadium, enthusiastically giving each other a double high-five. People and event tables are visible in the background at the Mesa Day 2024 photo gallery.

Table at MESA Day’s College & Career Fair

This year, our College & Career Fair will take place at PSU’s Viking Pavilion in the afternoon of Friday, May 16th. We have limited availability and are reserving booths for universities and colleges, as well as our sustaining sponsors or MESA Day sponsors. Email Michela at msottura@pdx.edu if you are interested in sponsoring and would like to learn more about how your support can make a difference for MESA students.

A group of people interact at an indoor informational booth with brochures, buttons, and pencils on a green table. Two women in green shirts stand behind the table smiling, while others engage and explore the Mesa Day 2024 photo gallery materials.