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The Girl Up Southeast TX Regional Summit 2018

On March 17, 2018 from 10 AM to 3 PM at Stephen F. Austin High School, the Girl Up Southeast Texas Coalition held its first-ever Regional Summit and raised over $4,000. Approximately 150 students from across the Southeast Texas region and from 33 different schools in the Greater Houston Area, Dallas, and San Antonio came together for an event filled with action, awareness, influential speakers, educational and leadership building workshops, food, pictures, and more!

Guest Speakers

Our Southeast Texas Regional Summit featured guest speakers from around the nation and in our community: Crystal Lee, Miss California 2013/1st Runner Up to Miss America 2014; Mini Timmaraju, former National Women's Vote Director for Hillary Clinton; Y. Ping Sun, First Lady/University Representative of Rice University; Dr. Latha Ramchand, Dean and Professor of Finance at the C.T. Bauer School of Business, University of Houston; Courtenay McMillan, NASA Flight Director; Karen Yang, Co-Director of Harvard's Young Women's Business Leadership Conference; Kirsten Foster, Women and Girls Advocacy Officer for Girl Up. Speakers inspired students to take action, empower through participation, to never doubt their own capabilities, and to put their best selves forward through developing their own personal brand.  

Mini Timmaraju

Karen Yang

Y. Ping Sun

Courtenay McMillan

Dr. Latha Ramchand

Kirsten Foster

Crystal Lee

Workshops

Attendees learned valuable skills from workshops, such as Kickstarting a Girl Up Club, where students learned the process and benefits of starting and leading a Girl Up club; Advocacy/Fundraising, where students practiced elevator pitches and learned the fundamentals of being a better advocate and fundraiser; and Current Issues, where students learned about issues affecting girls around the world and worked on how they could resolve them and do their part in leading a solution.

Students had sponsored lunch and dessert, from Domino's Pizza, Chick-fil-A, Subway, Lane & Simple, and SusieCakes, took part in a raffle for 5 Kendra Scott necklaces, and took lots of pictures with our photo backdrop, frames, signs, and Snapchat geofilter!

FOX26 Interview

A few hours before the summit, four of our Coalition Executive Board members were featured live on Fox 26 Morning News, where we talked about Girl Up, its importance, and our Regional Summit!

Girl Up Southeast Texas Fox Feature
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Here's to new Girl Up clubs in the Southeast Texas region and to an even bigger and better summit next year! See you next year!

Sponsors

Thank you to all of our sponsors! Our event would not be possible without them!

Kendra Scott Jewelry

Diamond Sponsor

Diamond Sponsor

Liliane Lin

Lane & Simple

Diamond Sponsor

Marshall Wealth Management

Silver Sponsor

Dr. Kim Gee

Silver Sponsor

Chick-fil-A

Silver Sponsor

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Silver Sponsor

Awty International

Silver Sponsor

Signature Dental

Bronze Sponsor

SusieCakes

Bronze Sponsor

Domino's Pizza

Bronze Sponsor

Arkk Engineers, LLC

Bronze Sponsor

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