When local middle and high school students connect with MESA—the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement Progam at UC Santa Cruz—the odds increase dramatically that they will go to college and succeed.
MESA levels the playing field for local 6th–12th graders from underserved and underrepresented communities. Our field trips to top companies, college-going peer groups, and hands-on challenges in science and engineering open minds to new possibilities. We demystify, inspire, and encourage. It works: MESA’s college-going rate is twice that of the California average, and 65 percent of our students major in science, technology, engineering, or math.
We invite you to join us in motivating and supporting these students on their pathway to success. Your gift to MESA makes more field trips and more enrichment opportunities possible for more students. You will be helping build the diverse new generation of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers that California needs.
Please give now. For these incredible young students, you will be changing the world.