Welcome to the 2021 MESA Challenge showcase Site!

Each year, more than 2,000 students in

grades 3 to 12 in 150+ schools across 7 school districts participate in the Maryland MESA Program. MD MESA utilizes a project-based approach to teach students the fundamentals of engineering and computer science.

Teams of students work on projects (called MESA challenges) and compete against other teams within the same MESA challenge category. The categories fall into four fields of science:

• Systems Engineering

• Biomedical Engineering

• Applied Physics

• Computational Thinking

MESA challenges are designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and the National MESA organization to help children develop computer programming and engineering skills.

Learn more about the MESA Challenges here.