This award provides funding to Stanly Community College Foundation, Inc. to support Stanly Community College’s (SCC) establishment of dual-enrollment pathways at Albemarle High School and South Stanly High School to meet regional demand for technology graduates. SCC will partner with Stanly County Schools (SCS) to strengthen the pipeline of high school students pursuing these career fields by creating an engineering technology dual-enrollment pathway at one local high school and an information technology dual-enrollment pathway at another local high school. Students at these high schools have the greatest transportation barriers to accessing existing programs. Students at other SCS high schools will also be able to enroll in these pathways. Upon completion of these dual- enrollment pathways, students are expected to matriculate to a related AAS degree program at SCC and transition from a pre-apprenticeship to a registered apprenticeship program leading to full employment. SCC expects that 24 students will complete a career pathway in the funded area, 30 students will earn an industry/3rd party credential, and 15 students will participate in a work-based learning (pre-apprenticeship) opportunity annually. Golden LEAF funds will be used for equipment, supplies, initial personnel costs, software, travel/transportation, and student certification/testing costs.
