Black Girls Do STEM

Happy Juneteenth ❤️🖤💚

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the emancipation of over 250,000 enslaved Black people. Occurring two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, this moment marked the final enforcement of freedom in the Confederacy and serves as the oldest, most significant U.S. holiday marking the end of slavery. 

Remember on today as we celebrate, " The function of freedom is to free someone else" Toni Morrison

Are you heading in the right direction?

Today's the day! 🎉🎓

This evening, BGDSTEM will celebrate an incredible milestone at our Q2 Quarterly Professional Networking Mixer and Senior Scholarship Ceremony.

We are proud to recognize our Class of 2026 seniors, who have achieved something remarkable:

✨ 100% are headed to college this fall
✨ Majoring in Pre-Medicine, Biology, Chemistry, Nursing, and Architectural Design
✨ Receiving a total of $8,000 in scholarships to support their next chapter

These young women represent the power of curiosity, confidence, and community. Through mentorship, STEM exploration, career exposure, and unwavering determination, they are preparing to become the next generation of healthcare professionals, scientists, researchers, and innovators.

Tonight isn't just a celebration of academic achievement—it's a celebration of what's possible when a community comes together to invest in young people.

Thank you to every donor, volunteer, mentor, partner, parent, and supporter who has helped make this moment possible. Your investment is creating pathways to opportunity and transforming futures. Special thanks to our direct event sponsors at Kwame Building Group and Belden for the financial support.

Join us as we celebrate these extraordinary young women and the bright future ahead of them.

🎓 Class of 2026
💰 $8,000 in Scholarships Awarded
🏫 100% College Bound
🧬 Future STEM Leaders

🎓✨ Join us as we celebrate the incredible Class of 2026 at the Black Girls Do STEM Q2 Quarterly STEM Professional Networking (QPN) Mixer!

This special evening will feature our Senior Scholarship Ceremony, where every 12th-grade girl in the Black Girls Do STEM program will receive a $1,000 scholarship to support her next steps after high school.

📅 June 9, 2026
⏰ Registration & Networking Begin at 5:30 PM
📍 Il Monastero | 3053 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO

Connect with professionals, mentors, community leaders, and the next generation of STEM talent while celebrating our outstanding seniors.

🎟️ Register today and bring a colleague!
🎓 College students attend FREE.

STEM Saturday Academy focus for the month is Fashion Engineering. Girls like fashion and they want to be engineers, so we went from fashion tech to fashion engineering focused on all aspects of design, material and sustainability.

Girls fashioned from recycled materials and used fabrics, they were able to be as creative as possible while understanding sustainability and exploring ways to make fashion more sustainable by upcycling more and throwing away less. In this month design challenge, we channeled project runway and there could only be one winner!

Stay tune for a couple runway show and designs to be on display at our end of year showcase on October 18th, save the date!