North Texas Grants

After-School All-Stars (ASAS) North Texas will receive a grant to deliver the #FemSTEM academic enrichment club, exclusively for female students at 6 Dallas schools, reaching an estimated 220 girls. Their holistic after-school programming has a focus on STEM and incorporates academic tutoring, hands-on STEM activities, mentoring, and STEM field trips to give students college and career exposure.

Bishop Arts Theatre Center (BATC) will use the funds to support their new Girls of Color Discovering STEAM camp. The students will also engage in one-on-one mentoring with the UT Dallas STEM undergraduates and professors, the students will engage in on-going project-based learning and explore real-world experiences in science, technology, engineering, art, and math. All of the skills learned are transferrable for current grade-school, college, and beyond. This will help create a pathway and pipeline students to attend college to pursue careers in STEM.

Design Connect Create (DCC) will receive a grant to support their AccelerateHER Physics and CodeHER Coding Camps in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The HTR grant will be used to deliver 6 one-week summer STEM camps that can be delivered either virtually or in person. The grant will fully fund 100 middle and high school girls from low socio-economic DFW districts to attend summer camps at no cost to the participants.

Friends of Solar Prep is a non-profit organization in support of the Solar Preparatory School for Girls. Solar Prep is a Dallas ISD Choice school supporting girls from K – 8th grade with a focus on an integrated, performance-based STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) and social emotional learning. HTR’s grant will fund STEM Professional Development for 30 Solar Prep teachers that will impact 750 girls.

Girlstart will receive a grant to reach over 350 North Texas high-need girls every week with high quality, hands-on STEM educational experiences through several after school programs. In addition, 75 of the girls will get an opportunity to go through a 4 week-long, technology intensive Girlstart summer program in North Texas.

Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas will receive a grant to fund Eureka!, a STEM program for girls. These STEM activities span five years -8th through 12th grade – through a cohort model that combines ongoing hands‐on experiences, mentorships with industry professionals, activities in a college campus environment, internship/externship opportunities for job shadowing and college test preparation. This grant will fund program expenses for the Eureka! program activities for 80 girls, as well as internships/externships for 10th graders to give the girls job shadowing and workplace experience.

GEMS (Girls interested in Engineering, Mathematics and Science) takes a holistic approach to providing girls with experiential learning programs, incorporating research-based best practices for bringing girls from underrepresented populations into the STEM career pipeline. HTR is providing a grant to GEMS for capacity building to hire one part time staff member to support their STEM Camps for 120 middle school girls.

The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) will deliver STEM Gender Equity training to one cohort of Educators in Mesquite ISD. HTR is making a grant to cover the cost of training 30 Educators impacting 750 girls from K through 12th grade. NAPE training helps educators identify possible sources of bias, recognize the unique gifts of others and embrace cultural diversity. The expected outcome will be that educators will implement NAPE micro-messaging strategies in their classrooms and encourage girls to pursue further study in STEM.

Aggie STEM HTR will grant funds to support their summer program that would provide up to 40 female students with a scholarship to attend a five-day residential or online STEM summer camp to prepare them for college study in STEM fields. This opportunity provides female students, who are underrepresented in STEM fields, with access to STEM concepts and skills. Participants will also gain knowledge of the wide variety of available STEM career options, university application requirements needed to pursue STEM majors, and the financial benefits of pursuing STEM careers.

Design Connect Create (DCC) has expanded their offerings to include AccelerateHER Physics camp, CodeHER Coding Camps and Leadher mentoring program. The HTR grant will be used to upgrade DCC’s Client Relationship Management system that will simplify and grow as DCC adds new programs to serve the same girls more than once in their K – 12 journey. DCC’s goal is to serve 400 girls in Texas in 2022.

FIRST in Texas will receive a grant to continue their FIRST Like A Girl!™ out-of-school STEM education in the DFW area. Approximately 275 girls (K – 12 grade) will explore engineering, design, fabrication, programming to solve real-world problem as well as the business side of developing a start-up company. Girls meet with trained mentors 1-3 days/week, 1-3 hrs per day throughout the year.

PreFlight Aviation Camp hosts a “Preparing Girls to Takeoff” 6-day aviation/STEM camp in San Marcos, Texas with the goal of creating a transformative experience for girls that uses aviation to build their self-esteem, empower them to reach their goals, and inspire them to become pilots. Their camp explores aviation through a STEM based curriculum led by female aviators and role models, as well as our post-camp mentorship program. HTR’s grant will fund scholarships for Texas girls ages 11 – 14 to attend the 2022 summer camp.

Women in Aviation International (WAI) Girls in Aviation Day focuses on girls, ages 8-17, to introduce them to STEM careers and opportunities by providing positive and culturally similar female role models in various STEM roles, hands-on STEM based activities, female aviation speakers along with information on scholarships. The HTR grant will support the 2022 Dallas Girls in Aviation Day targeting up to 3000 girls in the DFW area.

The University of Texas at Dallas will receive a grant to expand the UTD Young Women in Science and Engineering Investigators (YWISEI) Program’s research competition to provide a residential one-week STEM camp in the summer of 2022. The funding will be used to launch the UTD STEM camp for 50 rising 11th and 12th grader girls from Dallas and Collin counties. The one-week camp will include hands-on STEM activities, visits to science and engineering labs at UT Dallas, college planning activities, and corporate tours to meet female STEM professionals.

Young Women’s Preparatory Network (YWPN) mission is to support single-gender, college- preparatory, public education in Texas and beyond, giving young women the academic and leadership skills to achieve success in college and in life. HTR is making a grant to help deliver five Vidcode modules to ~ 800 girls during the 2021-2022 school year at 5 YWPN Schools in Texas. Vidcode modules introduce middle and high school girls to programming concepts in ways that are easily relatable and includes courses in computer science, object- oriented programming, web programming, design, and JavaScript.