Mesa College MEChA

San Diego Mesa College was founded in 1963, opening in 1964. The campus still stands in Kearny Mesa right down the street from Kearny High School. It is a public 2 year community college here in San Diego that helps students of any age get degrees or transfer to other universities.

The school, like many others, has its own MEChA club that is open to all students who are enrolled. The school implemented the club starting in 1969, five years after the campus opened.

Mesa College Mechistas do all sorts of things for the school. Covid hit hard on many clubs, but these Mechistas did not let that hold them back. Throughout quarantine they still held consistent online meetings with their advisor.

Before Covid, advisor Cesar Lopez explains that most of the events the Mechistas had were "Scholarship events, raising money for the club and carne asadas."

Further into the conversation, he states that the collaboration with the Logan Memorial Eduational Campus school for Día de los Muertos was the first of its kind. Most of the time, the Mechistas stay within their own campus grounds when doing events and projects. However, they decided to shake things up and create a beautiful altar for all of "LMEC" students to participate in and enjoy.

Mechistas looking for a community service project

LMEC reached out to the Mechistas for a possible oppurtunity

Zoom meetings between Mechistas and LMEC staff to plan implementation of altar

Mechistas fundraising on campus for money to use when buying materials for altar

Mechistas, Cesar and LMEC staff build altar

Mechistas returned to take down the altar