MESA Day & Future Innovators Celebration 2022 Our culminating event of the year, MESA Day is happening on May 20th 2022! At MESA Day, middle and high school students engage in hands-on competition, career exploration, and college preparation. While MESA
Demo Day 2022 is happening this upcoming February! Demo Day is our community showcase where our MESA students present their progress on their invention projects and get valuable feedback from the community. This school year, Demo Day will be
Your purchase can make a difference This year, we have been working hard to expand our reach across more regions in Oregon. Thanks to new partnerships and support from our community, we are now operating in the Mt. Hood and
MESA Receives $1.1 Million in Grants to Expand Equitable STEM Education Statewide Oregon MESA, which has operated out of Portland State for 36 years, is expanding thanks to new funding. MESA trains middle and high school teachers to help
We are happy to announce that this year’s competition theme will be “From Harvest to Table” (“De la Cosecha a la Mesa”). Our MESA student will create innovative solutions for clients in Oregon who bring food to our communities. This theme
MESA will be operating all programs virtually for the 2020-2021 school year.
For the past decade, Oregon MESA has grown significantly to serve more students throughout the state. With the development of our Invention Toolkit, Oregon MESA has also become a leader in invention education nationally bringing more opportunities for underrepresented students
Bronze Medal Award Winners MESA USA National Engineering Design Competition (NEDC) Congratulations to the McDaniel High School MESA Students and Advisor of Portland! Team members Conner Lanusse, Frankie Silverstein, and Akosha Taylor won the Bronze Medal Award for their MESA
Oregon MESA held our MESA Day 2021 Awards Ceremony on May 20th. Although MESA Day 2021 was virtual we had hundreds of students and teachers join us for the week’s activities. We’re pleased to announce the following winners from MESA