Promoting science literacy is a big part of what STAN is about. What is science literacy? Here are a few different viewpoints:

"Scientific literacy is an evolving combination of science-related attitudes, skills and knowledge students need to develop inquiry, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities, to become lifelong learners, and to maintain a sense of wonder about the world around them."
(from the Pan-Canadian Protocol for Collaboration on School Curriculum, Council of Ministers of Education, Canada 1997)

"Science literacy encompasses knowledge of basic scientific concepts and processes. It includes important skills such as problem-solving. It enables us to understand the link between Science, technology, innovation, the economy, the environment and our society."
(from Let's Talk Science)

"Technological literacy is the ability to use, manage, assess, and understand technology. A technologically literate person understands, in increasingly sophisticated ways that evolve over time, what technology is, how it is created, and how it shapes society, and in turn is shaped by society. A technologically literate person will be comfortable with and objective about technology, neither scared of to nor infatuated with it."
(from Standards for Technological Literacy)