Mendota High students honored on Senate floor after national engineering win

Aug 3, 2026

Senator Caballero recognized two Mendota High students — Jonathan Alfaro Saravia and Christopher Torres Alfaro — who won first place at the MESA National Engineering Design Competition for a multilingual crisis-response tool called Safe Space.

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Senator Caballero recognized Jonathan Alfaro Saravia and Christopher Torres Alfaro of Mendota High School for winning first place at the MESA National Engineering Design Competition at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Caballero said the students designed "Safe Space," a multilingual crisis-response system that provides anonymous, real-time mental-health support for students.

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