MESA Day

Last Saturday I gladly volunteered as a web design judge for MESA day in San Jose State University. MESA stands for Math Engineering Science Achievement and is a program run throughout California to try to promote the sciences in socioeconomic disadvantaged communities.

For the web design contest, student where given a topic and 45 minutes to complete design a website with a minimum of three linked pages. Points were given for creativity, functionality, and content but most points were racked up by the different tags the students used. Points were handed out for using headers, relative links, absolute links, anchored links, style sheets, etc. After judging some of the web designs I could clearly see the influence of MySpace in some of the students work.

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3 Comments

  1. Kathy Pham
    Posted April 19, 2007 at 12:30 pm | Permalink

    Hey! I was a middle school contestant there! Did you happen to be judging in 2007 as well?

  2. Posted April 19, 2007 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    @Kathy – I was out of town for MESA Day this year. I do hope to participate and help out in any way that I can next year.

  3. Kathy Pham
    Posted April 24, 2007 at 9:33 pm | Permalink

    Awesome. Well next year I’ll return as an high school student!

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