High-Tech High Heels Elevates Girls for Science Through STEM Funding

High-Tech High Heels, a nonprofit created in 2001 by 31 women who worked at Texas Instruments. The Preston Hollow-based nonprofit aims to introduce more girls to STEM fields through grants to organizations that aligned with that mission, summer camps and workshops.

Each camp introduces young girls to different STEM-related fields. One camp was held at the University of Texas at Dallas last summer and allowed a group of girls to get a better feel for physics with activities like creating and studying a wind tunnel.

“We funded the physics camps because at that point in time, there wasn’t a camp for girls,” says Keepes, who is now the president of the North Texas chapter. “That’s really what started High-Tech High Heels is that need. That was the very first program in grants that we ever gave as an organization.”