1. Time to Activate Campaign Frame Element Slides This deck is not a canned presentation—meaning, it isn’t intended for you to deliver it beginning-to- end. Rather, it’s a collection of slides intended to make it easy to sprinkle the campaign’s frame elements into your own talk. Pilfer at will!

2. Note to Users Strategic Frame Analysis® recommends that communications follow an order that answers these questions in turn: Why does this matter to society? How does this issue work? What’s getting in the way? What can we do about it? The frame element slides follow this outline. Users are encouraged to insert these slides into presentations about their own programs, advocacy goals, etc.

3. We need creative thinkers & communicators Top two categories of skills needed in the years ahead: “Expert thinking” – solving new problems for which there are no routine solutions. “Complex communication” – persuading, explaining, conveying a particular interpretation of information. STEM learning builds both! Source: The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy & Richard Murnane

4. Innovation in science and engineering powers our economy forward Tomorrow’s economy will be primarily driven by innovation, especially in science and engineering. One job in the high-tech sector leads to four jobs in local goods and services sectors. Source: STEM: Good Jobs Now and For the Future, US Department of Commerce, 2011

5. STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

6. Afterschool STEM: It’s Time to Activate! 75% of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences say that their passion for science was first sparked in non-school environments. Source: Science by Stealth, by Lucy Friedman and Jane Quinn, 2006

7. Afterschool STEM: It’s Time to Activate! School-age children only spend 20% of their waking hours in school. To make the most of the other 80%, we need to give children chances to be inspired and engage in learning in new ways and environments.

8. Frequency Builds STEM Fluency Students who were immersed in STEM after school developed greater fluency in these subjects. 69% of parents with children in afterschool programs report that their child gets some form of STEM programming and 76% of these children are offered it at least once a week. And yet – for every child in an afterschool program, two more are waiting to get in. Demand far outstrips the supply!

9. Opportunities to learn are like charging stations

10. Opportunities to power up STEM learning are reliable in some places – patchy in others A 2014 analysis of student preparation in STEM found wide variation across the nation: In Massachusetts, 1 in 6 students earned at least one advanced high school STEM credit In Mississippi, the rate was 1 in 80 students Source: Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on School Effectiveness, by U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 2014.

11. We need every student – regardless of zip code - to have access to afterschool STEM Policies that create greater access abound in some states, lag in others: 13 states have passed legislation that directly supports afterschool 21 states fund afterschool programs 34 states have an initiative promoting quality in afterschool Source: State-by-State Afterschool Progress Reports and Consumer Guides. Afterschool Alliance & Lights On Afterschool, 2011.