<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello Faculty and Staff, </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please see the MESA's invitation and message below. Flyer is attached.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>College of Engineering Faculty and Staff,</i></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Please help to distribute and advertise MESA's annual STEM Shadow Day that serves all of our College of Engineering (as well as some of the College of Sciences).  The participating companies together will be hosting over 204 student spots this year.  Many of these spots are in the Aerospace, Mechanical, Computer and Electrical Engineering areas.</i></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Thanks for your support.<br></i></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">###</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://mesa.sdsu.edu/activities/shadow-day" target="_blank">STEM Shadow Day</a> will be in-person on the Thursday before the Thanksgiving holiday:  <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Thursday, November 16, 2023</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Through the free annual STEM Shadow Day event, college students from San Diego State University, San Diego City College, Southwestern College, and college prep students from San Diego and Imperial Valley counties will have a unique experience to witness the “real world” of work in an engineering or scientific environment.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Industry’s involvement will provide a great opportunity for our up and coming students to “test the waters” in a field of their interest and see first-hand how classroom skills relate to the workplace.  What better way to do that, than observe and work with a professional in action! </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Employers can make a positive impact on the lives of students, our future engineers and scientists, and students can picture themselves in these positions in the near future while creating attainable goals to get there. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Deadline for students to register is <b>Sunday, October 15.</b></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Ollin Balderas <a href="https://namedrop.io/ollinbalderas" target="_blank">(hear name)</a></font></b><br></font></div><div><a href="http://engineering.sdsu.edu" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-size:x-small;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">College of Engineering</font></a><font color="#000000" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-size:x-small;white-space:pre-wrap"> | Dean's Office</font></div><span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="1">P: 619-594-6061 | office hours: 8am-4:30pm</font></span></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(198,0,41);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">San Diego State University</span><span style="color:rgb(198,0,41);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-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