State Superintendent Mark Johnson received funding from the General Assembly to establish the Coding and Mobile Applications Grant Program. The grant program will provide funding to grant recipients to design and implement computer science, coding, and mobile application development curricular program for middle and high school students starting this school year.
Schools are to work with industry partners. The grant will provide opportunities through the partnerships to at least identify how the partnership will provide increased career opportunities for students engaged in high-wage, high-skill, and high-demand occupations; alignment with Career and Technical Education, Career and College Pathways, and postsecondary program; and create innovative, nontraditional and immediate pathways for students related to mobile software applications.
None is available.
Program funds awards shall be used for the below listed purchases.
Eligible Recipients are local school administrative units and charter schools. Past recipients may reapply. NCDPI may consider partial grant awards to local school administrative units and charter schools.
Applications were to be submitted by May 15, 2019. A similar deadline is anticipated, annually.
For the spring semester of 2019, State Superintendent Mark Johnson awarded $400,000 in grants to 15 district and charter schools. The General Assembly has made another $800,000 available for the 2019-2020 school year. Award amounts vary.