MESA Day is the MESA College Prep Program’s annual competition circuit. 8 competitions are hosted at the Middle and High School level for the students to test and show off their knowledge in engineering, science and math.

Competitions Include:

Cargo Gliders

MESA Math Escape Challenge

MESA Think Tank

National Engineering Design Competition (NEDC)

Moon Base

MESA Machine

Crime Scene Science

Coding Solutions

Alongside the in-person competitions, the center hosted virtual competitions for MESA Day.

MESA Think Tank Video Submission due February 17, 2023

MESA Math Escape Challenge March 24, 2023 hosted at Mt. Pleasant High School

Coding Solutions due February 20, 2023 at 12:00PM

National Engineering Design Challenge-6th-8th Grade

1st Place: Ocala STEAM Academy Middle School

Jaylah Mendoza

Floreza Daquioag

Think Tank-7th and 8th Grade

1st Place: Bridges Academy

Jayden Tran

Jamel Peou

Aldair Funes

Cargo Glider-6th Grade

1st Place: STEM Workshop

Angel Carabajal

Virakvann Vitcheth

Cargo Glider-7th and 8th Grade

1st Place: Bridges Academy

Ramses Guadarrama

Jesus Castro

Patrick Im

MESA Machine 7th-8th Grade

1st Place: Bridges Academy

Chris Ong

Javier Barragan

Aaron Vizueth

2nd Place: Bridges Academy

Anali Avila

Kelly Mon

Hanna Cao

CrimeSceneScience-6th-8thGrade

1st Place: STEMWorkshop

Kally Luu

Takdeer Dhami

Dominik Barrientos

2nd Place: Bridges Academy

Thu Phan

Natalie Cortez

EmilyAyala

3rd Place: Bridges Academy

Vinny Nguyen

Alisson Herrera

Lily Pangelinan

MoonBase7th-8thGrade

1st Place: Bridges Academy

Chelsea Atijera

Jessica Campuzano

2nd Place: Bridges Academy

An Ha

Yoselyn Angel

Vy Nguyen

CodingSolutions-6th-8thGrade

1st Place: STEMWorkshop

Kally Luu

Takdeer Dhami

2nd Place: Bridges Academy

AnaliAvila

Yoselyn Angel

MathEscape-6th-8thGrade

1st Place: STEMWorkshop

Sofia Barragan

Eva Andrade

Berklee Brown

2nd Place: Ocala STEAM Academy

Ramona Barrera

Victoria Barrera

Ravneet Kaur

Spirit Award for Middle School 2023

Joseph George Middle School

National Engineering Design Challenge

1st Place: Santa Teresa High School

Michelle Nehorai

Riya Rajeevam

Shaylyn Tran

Ritika Samant

2nd Place: Santa Teresa High School

Joshua Sah

Jonathan Amat

Jeremy Sedillo

Aathi Muthu

3rd Place: Santa Teresa High School

Joel Sedillo

Andrew Hoang

Kaleigh Steward

Think Tank 9th-10th Grade

1st Place: Santa Teresa High School

Mytae Suntay

Rayirth Dinesh

Eric Cao

2nd Place: Santa Teresa High School

Veda Valavala

Grace Saji

Sudiksha Sahoo

3rd Place: Santa Teresa High School

Jane Rayna Edwin Omesh

Sofia Utama

Angela Dang

ThinkTank11th-12thGrade

1st Place: SantaTeresa High School

Jordan Nguyen

Owen Scheid

Ethan Pham

2nd Place: SantaTeresa High School

Riya Rajeevan

Ritika Samant

ShaylynTran

3rd Place: SantaTeresa High School

VyTran

Daniela Diaz

Kyle Nguyen

CargoGlider9th-10thGrade

1st Place: Independence High School

Hanming Zhao

Victor Hsu

2nd Place: SantaTeresa High School

Christina Oh

Keerthanaa Balasubramanian

Gargi Ramacharan

CargoGlider11th-12thGrade

1st Place: AndrewP. Hill High School

Adrian Bao

Amarrah Len

Kelly Hua

2nd Place: SantaTeresa High School

HaileyTa

Kayla Pham

Carl Stafford

MESAMachine9th-10thGrade

1st Place: SantaTeresa High School

Ethan Pereira

Marcus Dinh

Teiji Futamase

2nd Place: SantaTeresa High School

Samriddha Mishra

NathanLy

Jeremy Doan

3rd Place: SantaTeresa High School

Nhi Luu

Shreeya Saravanan

Monica Pinyen Kuo

MESAMachine11th-12thGrade

1st Place: SantaTeresa High School

Koleman Chang

Ashutosh Kumar

William Cung

2nd Place: Independence High School

Munatazir Mohamed

Tanish Kumar

Keith Ha

3rd Place: Mt. Pleasant High School

JasmineTu

Lilian Ba

Joanna Bui

CrimeSceneScience-9th-12thGrade

1st Place: SantaTeresa High School

Grace Saji

Anita Pallipaden

Abel Antony

2nd Place: SantaTeresa High School

GriffinViray

William Dong

Cedric Pinto

3rd Place: Silver Creek High School

Tai Dinh

AgnesTang

MoonBase9th-10thGrade

1st Place: Independence High School

KayleeTran

Jenny Grey Phan

Jaap Chahal

2nd Place: SantaTeresa High School

Marcus Dinh

Teiji Futamase

Ethan Pereira

3rd Place: Silver Creek High School

Eric Nguyen

Ankit Mohan

DonovanLy

MoonBase11th-12thGrade

1st Place: SantaTeresa High School

Karthik Hari

Samuel Aragon

Max Cheng

2nd Place: Santa Teresa High School

Daryl Jones

Aaditya Sethi

Lam Nguyen

Coding Solutions-9th-12th Grade

1st Place: Independence High School

Christopher Eliot Hall

2nd Place: Santa Teresa High School

Giwin Vincent Edwin Omesh

Krish Kumar

3rd Place: Independence High School

Haoyun Luo

Math Escape-9th-12th Grade

1st Place: Mt. Pleasant High School

Charles Wu

Vincent Lieu

2nd Place: Santa Teresa High School

James Kim

Danwoo Yoo

Jason Muench

3rd Place: Santa Teresa High School

Daryl Jones

Thomas Cung

Adtiya Sethi

Spirit Award for High School:

Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy