Design Connect Create

💗 MIDDAY UPDATE: We’re almost at 20% of our goal!

Thanks to our incredible DCC community, we’ve reached $10,715 toward our $55,000 North Texas Giving Day goal!

Every gift, share, text, and connection helps us create more opportunities for girls to explore STEM, build confidence, and see what’s possible.

Can you help us cross that milestone this afternoon?💗

https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Design-Connect-Create

💗 TODAY IS THE DAY! It’s North Texas Giving Day! 💗

We are starting today with $10,485 raised by 26 generous donors, reaching 19% of our $55,000 goal! 🎉

To every person who has donated, pledged, shared our story, made a call, sent a message, or connected someone to our mission, THANK YOU! You are helping Design Connect Create create more opportunities for girls to explore STEM, build confidence, discover what is possible, and know that they belong.

And there is still more impact to make! We are grateful for a $1,000 matching gift from the Texas Instruments Foundation through Shaunna Black. 💗

Today, we are asking our community to GIVE. SHARE. AMPLIFY.

Every gift moves another girl closer to an opportunity that can change how she sees herself and her future.

✨ Same Girls. Brighter Futures.
💗 Give today: northtexasgivingday.org/design-connect-create

Meet Blessing Umoeka 💗

Blessing’s journey with Design Connect Create is a reminder that the impact of one STEM experience can extend far beyond a single program.

As a former DCC teaching assistant, Blessing grew from participant to leader—helping inspire the next generation of girls in STEM.

This is what your investment makes possible. It’s not simply one experience. It’s the beginning of a pathway.

Support more girls like Blessing this North Texas Giving Day — September 17.



https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Design-Connect-Create

🎉 WE’VE CROSSED $5,000! 🎉

Our North Texas Giving Day momentum is growing!

💗 $400 donated online
✨ $5,200 through The Strickland Family
🚀 $5,600 raised/committed
🎯 $55,000 goal

That puts us at 10.2% of our goal!

Every dollar helps Design Connect Create provide girls with opportunities to experience STEM, build confidence, connect with role models, and begin seeing themselves as part of the future STEM workforce.

Now, who will help us multiply the momentum?

We are looking for additional individuals, companies, and community partners willing to step forward with a $5,000, $10,000, or larger matching gift.

Know someone? Tag them. Share this post. Make an introduction.

Give. Share. Match. Multiply the impact. 💗

At DCC, giving back means investing in our community in more ways than one! 💙🔬

Through LOOP, a club sponsored by DCC at Berkner High School, we’re helping inspire high school girls to explore science through hands-on activities, mentorship, and FUN! 🧪✨

As North Texas Giving Day approaches, we’re celebrating the ways DCC gives back to the Richardson ISD community and creates opportunities for the next generation of STEM leaders.

Because girls just want to have fun(ding)! 💰😉 Your support helps make programs like LOOP possible!

We’re building momentum, and now we’re looking for a MATCH! 💗

Our DCC community has already donated or pledged $2,350 toward our $55,000 North Texas Giving Day goal! That’s 4.3% of the way there, and Early Giving is just the beginning.

Every gift helps create opportunities for girls to experience STEM, discover their brilliance, and see bigger possibilities for their futures.

💗 $2,350 donated + pledged
🎯 $55,000 goal
✨ $52,650 to go

Now, imagine the impact if those gifts could be DOUBLED.

We are looking for an individual, company, foundation, or community partner to provide a matching gift for our North Texas Giving Day campaign.

Could it be you or someone you know?

Give. Share. Tag a potential partner. Make an introduction. Together, we can multiply the impact and create more opportunities for girls in STEM.

Your gift. Doubled. Her opportunity. Multiplied. 💗

With North Texas Giving Day coming up, we wanted to take a moment to look back at one of the amazing experiences from our previous camp! 💙

A huge thank you to the Richardson Police Department for coming out and showing our girls the incredible technology behind their drones. Our girls were so impressed, and the officers who joined us were incredibly informative, engaging, and made the experience so memorable!

Thank you again, Richardson Police Department, for taking the time to inspire and educate our future STEM leaders! 🚁✨💙 l

🎉 EARLY GIVING STARTS TODAY! 🎉

North Texas Giving Day is officially underway, and Design Connect Create is already moving toward our $55,000 goal!

💚 $2,180 donated + pledged
🎯 $55,000 goal
🚀 And we’re just getting started!

Every gift helps us continue creating opportunities for girls to explore STEM, build confidence, discover their brilliance, and see themselves in the future STEM workforce.

To everyone who has already donated, pledged, shared our story, or committed to helping us reach more people—THANK YOU! You are helping us build the momentum.

Today is Day 1. Let’s see how far we can go! 💚

https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Design-Connect-Create

A DCC Story: STEM Beyond the Classroom 🌿🔬

This summer, our Design Connect Create girls discovered that STEM doesn’t just happen in a classroom—it is "all around us".

Through field experiences at The Wetlands, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, and BioLabs, girls had opportunities to explore STEM in very different environments—from observing ecosystems and collecting data in the field, to engaging with science exhibits, to seeing spaces where scientists and innovators are doing real-world work.

These experiences are an important part of the DCC journey. When girls can see, touch, question, investigate, and experience STEM for themselves, science becomes more than something they study. It becomes something they can imagine themselves doing.

For some, a field trip may spark a new interest. For another girl, it may introduce a career she never knew existed. And for another, it may simply reinforce a powerful message:

There is a place for me in STEM.

At Design Connect Create, we are creating more than summer experiences. We are creating opportunities for girls to explore possibilities, build confidence, and see themselves as the scientists, engineers, problem-solvers, and innovators of the future.

That’s the DCC story—connecting girls to experiences today that can shape what they believe is possible tomorrow. 💗🔬