Beck Technology, through its DESTINI suite of preconstruction software, helps make the construction industry better by eliminating risk, providing better preconstruction services, and establishing collaboration and the free flow of information between general contractors and owners. Our dedication to improving the built environment through innovative technologies wouldn’t be possible without embodying our core values of passion, innovation, and caring.
However, our core values don’t just stop at the office door or turn off at 5 p.m. Beck Tech team members inherently have these same core values in their personal lives as well. That’s what makes the Beck Tech company and its products so revolutionary. DESTINI Estimator construction estimating software and DESTINI Bid Day bid leveling software wouldn’t be what they are today without a team of passionate, caring, and innovative people behind it.
That’s why we developed the Beck Tech Cares initiative—to extend our collective passion and caring to our communities by selecting one team member a month to choose a nonprofit or charitable organization for Beck Technology to donate to in their honor.
The Beck Tech Cares initiative is made possible by utilizing the virtual “high five” feature of one of our management tools. Employees give each other high fives when other team members demonstrate passion, innovation, and caring—whether through going above and beyond in their roles and tasks, but also through supportive actions when a team member needs mentorship or just a shoulder to lean on.
This month’s nominated honoree was Content Team Lead, Suzanne Wiley who chose Girls Rock Fort Worth.
As much as rocks have historically been used as building foundations, the Girls Rock organization and movement help young women build a foundation of self-confidence, their self-esteem, and find their voices to take up space in the world.
Girls Rock Fort Worth is an extension of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls founded in 2001 in Portland, Oregon. In 2007, the Girls Rock Camp Alliance was formed to provide support and networking opportunities for the different Girls Rock chapters around the world.
Every year, the Girls Rock location chapters hold a summer day camp for girls and gender expansive youth ages 8-17 form bands, learn how to play an instrument, and write an original song. Throughout the week, campers also take workshops like music theory, branding and marketing, music videos, team building, stage presence, women in rock history, self-defense, podcasting, standing up to injustice, and more.
Girls Rock Fort Worth writes, “Our mission is to empower our campers & gender-expansive youth to believe in themselves by providing a supportive community that fosters self-expression, confidence, and collaboration through music education and performance. In a weeklong summer session run by adult community volunteers, campers gain meaningful life skills of collaboration, problem-solving, and positive self-expression in a creative, supportive environment.
7 in 10 girls believe they are not good enough or do not measure up in some way, including their looks, performance in school, and relationships with family and friends.
– Real Girls, Real Pressure: National Report on the State of Self-Esteem, Dove Self-Esteem Fund
Suzanne, who lives in Fort Worth, says, “Women in the music industry have historically been exploited, under-valued, under-paid, and under-represented. Even today, women artists and songwriters are experiencing these disparities—especially in positions of power like producers and record label executives. I’ve never been musically inclined, even though I tried. In seventh grade I enrolled in band using my brother’s old trumpet but wanting to play whatever came to my head instead of trying to read music, I was always put in the last chair. I gave up band and joined the choir where I was told by the other girls that “I sang too loud.” Even in college, I had a professor express her ‘concern’ over why I enjoyed “such aggressive” music.
