Kode With Klossy Partners with the Ad Council’s She Can STEM Campaign to Celebrate the Bright Futures of Girls in STEM

By PRNewswire On Mar 18, 2019

Karlie Kloss, Joined by Her Kode with Klossy Scholars, Shares Empowering Pi Day Message: If She Can STEM, so Can You

The Ad Council’s She Can STEM campaign has joined forces with Karlie Kloss‘s nonprofit organization, Kode With Klossy, to show girls how exercising their minds – using science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) – is the first step to changing the world. In a new PSA (public service advertisement), launching today to coincide with Pi Day, supermodel and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss is joined by a team of bold, confident young girls who exercise their STEM skills through exciting coding projects, which help inspire self-confidence and creative thinking.

“When we create opportunities for girls to build, collaborate and re-imagine life as we know it, we create opportunities for them to change the world,” said Lisa Sherman, President and CEO of the Ad Council. “Kode With Klossy provides immersive coding experiences to girls across the country, and we’re thrilled to partner with them to continue encouraging girls to pursue science, technology, engineering and math.”

The new PSA features Karlie Kloss and a team of Kode With Klossy scholars warming up for what appears to be an athletic event but turns out to be an epic coding session. We see Kode with Klossy scholars Kyara and Valeria setting up the database, Tallie handling network layering and Isabelle building out the front end. The video stars several other Kode With Klossy alumni and future scholars, including:

Sammy, a Kode With Klossy alumna who developed an app that helps chronically ill children feel less alone
Alexis, a Kode with Klossy alumna who started a digital magazine aimed at instilling confidence in young women
Eleanor, a future Kode With Klossy scholar.

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Kloss concludes the PSA by reminding viewers that when we create opportunities for girls to stretch their minds, we give them the confidence to change the world. She also invites audiences to learn more by visiting SheCanSTEM on Instagram. The video was produced by female-owned goodstory films, with Rachel Fleit as the director. The production was also women-led, with an all-female cast. Brooklyn-based studio Please Space donated its space for the production pro bono and provided equipment at a significantly reduced rate.

Women make up half of the total college-educated workforce in the US, but they only constitute 25 percent of the STEM workforce, according to the US Department of Commerce. Research shows that many girls lose interest in STEM as early as middle school, and this path continues through high school and college, ultimately leading to an underrepresentation of women in STEM careers.

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Since the launch of She Can STEM in September 2018, the campaign has been supported by a variety of corporate, nonprofit and media partners. Most recently, Bloomberg and IF/THEN, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies, have joined the campaign as funding partners for 2019, along with founding partners IBM, Verizon and Google. In the coming months, the campaign will spotlight the incredible achievements of women in STEM at Bloomberg and affiliated with IF/THEN and Lyda Hill Philanthropies as a rallying cry for young girls to pursue their interests in STEM.

Media partners who have supported the campaign since launch include: Facebook, Twitter, Google, MTV, Playbuzz, Kahoot!, Paramount Animation’s Wonder Park, among others.

The new broadcast and digital PSA will run in donated air time, per the Ad Council’s model.

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