Last Saturday I gladly volunteered as a web design judge for MESA day in San Jose State University. MESA stands for Math Engineering Science Achievement and is a program run throughout California to try to promote the sciences in socioeconomic disadvantaged communities.

For the web design contest, student where given a topic and 45 minutes to complete design a website with a minimum of three linked pages. Points were given for creativity, functionality, and content but most points were racked up by the different tags the students used. Points were handed out for using headers, relative links, absolute links, anchored links, style sheets, etc. After judging some of the web designs I could clearly see the influence of MySpace in some of the students work.