Items of Interest
- Use: the Advisor Handbook to figure it out
- Print: a NM MESA recruitment flyer
- NM MESA Day/MESA USA 2027: April 29
- NM MESA competition location: Expo NM
- NM Tech Miner Mayhem website!
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Central Inner past events page
Upcoming NM MESA Events
Thursday, 09/17/2026Isotopes STEAM Adventure»
Date: Thursday, Sept. 17th 2026 vs. Salt Lake Bees Cost: $9/ticket total (lunch ticket for a hotdog & drink included) MESA will organize & pay for all MS/HS student and…
Thursday, 04/29/2027MESA Competitions 2027»
This year our MESA Competition Day will host (2) Competition Tracks, MESA Day and MESA USA. Both tracks will run concurrently during the same event. Please note some guidelines are different for each track.
NM MESA News
NM MESA Announces 2026 Guenther Advisor Achievement Award Recipients»
08/24/2026 – NM MESA has selected recipients of the 2026 Dr. Arthur H. and Joan Guenther Advisor Achievement Award. Marion Markham and Nicole Keeney are this year’s outstanding MESA advisors. Each of these two fine…
2026 MESA Day & MESA USA Scores Available»
05/01/2026 – Congratulations to all of our teams that participated in our 2026 MESA Competitions on April 30, 2026. For a review of scores please see below… MESA Day High School Overall…
NM MESA Announces 2025 Recipients of the Dr. Arthur H. and Joan Guenther Advisor Achievement Award»
08/15/2025 – NM MESA has selected recipients of the 2025 Dr. Arthur H. and Joan Guenther Advisor Achievement Award. Marie Booth and Avery Herrera are this year’s outstanding MESA advisors. Each of these…
NM MESA c/o UNM Centennial Engineering
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Albuquerque, NM 87131
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Kim Allen Scheerer, EdD
Regional Coordinator
Kim moved to New Mexico’s middle Rio Grande valley in 2006. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Alma College in Michigan and a Masters of Applied Science, Marine Biology from James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. She graduated with her doctorate (EdD) from the Educational Leadership program at UNM’s College of Education & Human Sciences. Read Kim’s research on STEM project-based learning education in New Mexico in the 2023 New Mexico Journal of Science, volume 57.
Kimi is a former PADI Dive Master and volunteer at Albuquerque Aquarium’s Invertebrate Touchpool. Prior to joining the MESA team, she worked as an Educational Coordinator along the Rio Grande valley & bosque, and with various environmental education field programs in the Southeast and Caribbean.
Kimberly defines her strengths as the biological sciences and creative engineering, but is interested in and enthusiastic about related STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ART & Mathematics) education. She enjoys water experiences, nudibranchs, picnics, gardening, meandering with her rambunctious dog & partner, and traveling!
