Items of Interest
- Use: the Advisor Handbook to figure it out
- Print: a NM MESA recruitment flyer
- NM MESA Day/MESA USA 2025: Wednesday, April 30th
- MESA 2025 competition location: NM EXPO
- Central Inner past events page.
Upcoming NM MESA Events
No upcoming events are currently scheduled for this region.
NM MESA News
NM MESA Guenther Advisor Achievement Award – Accepting 2024-2025 Nominations»
05/07/2025 – Calling all students, parents, administrators, teachers, community members — Let’s think about those great NM MESA advisors from this past school year who continuously gave of their time, passion, caring…
2025 MESA Competition Winners Announced»
05/01/2025 – On April 30, 2025 NM MESA held their MESA Day and MESA USA Annual Competitions on the Expo New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over 600 students competed from…
NM MESA Announces 2024 Recipients of the Dr. Arthur H. and Joan Guenther Advisor Achievement Award»
08/21/2024 – NM MESA has selected recipients of the 2024 Dr. Arthur H. and Joan Guenther Advisor Achievement Award. Rina Viramontes and Janice Badongen-Patal-E are this year’s outstanding MESA advisors. Each of these two…
NM MESA c/o UNM Centennial Engineering
MSCO1 1145 - 2103
1 University of NM
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505.350.1438 mobile
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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 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!
