
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
04/06-04/09/2025Senior Incentive Field Trip 2025»
The Senior Incentive Field Trip (SIFT) has been scheduled for April 6-9, 2025 to Nashville, TN – Huntsville, AL! Up to 20 seniors and 2-4 advisor chaperones from our NM…
Thursday, 04/10/2025Central Inner Regional Advisory Meeting (RAM)»
Includes: $100 stipend + mileage & lunch Host location: Sandia Sciece & Technology Park’s Cooperative Educational Services multipurpose meeting room & lunch area To bring: water bottle/beverage of choice, a…
Wednesday, 04/30/2025MESA Competitions 2025»
COMPETITION INSPECTION ZOOM LOG INS: MESA Day Inspection Zoom Log In: TBD Access Code: MESA USA Inspection Zoom Log In: TBD Access Code: PLEASE NOTE: You must be registered and…
Wednesday, 04/30/2025NM MESA Competition Volunteer Registration 2025»
Thank you for volunteering with us for our 2025 MESA Day Competitions on April 30, 2025. We will host close to 900 students and teachers for a full day of…
NM MESA News
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 Guenther Advisor Achievement Award – Accepting 2023-2024 Nominations»
05/08/2024 – 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…
2024 NM MESA Day Winners Announced»
05/01/2024 – Congratulations to all of our participating teams in our 2024 NM MESA Day. The event was held in Albuquerque, NM on April 30, 2024 at the Albuquerque Convention Center. For…

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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!