Exciting classroom grant opportunities will be available again in Fall 2025, providing teachers with funding to bring innovative and creative projects to life. Stay tuned for details on how to apply and make a lasting impact in your classroom! In the meantime, check out our previous recipients and past grant opportunities below.
Our classroom grant program recognizes the incredible ideas our teachers and staff have for their students to experience learning in a new way! The Classroom Grant Program supports projects that provide a unique learning opportunity for students that builds technical skills, practices employability skills and explores careers. To date, we have awarded almost $200,000 to teachers and staff in Cabarrus County Schools.
Bringing Learning to Life
2024-2025 Classroom Grant Recipients Spark Innovation & Storytelling
Congratulations to Heather Shulman of Hickory Ridge Elementary, recipient of the Strick Dalton Innovation Classroom Grant for Storytime Meet STEM: Interactive Learning with Bee Bot Robots. Her project will engage students in climate, plant life cycles, and environmental awareness through interactive Storytime STEM+C Adventures, using robotics to enhance problem-solving and creativity.
Alexandria Scott of Jay M. Robinson High School received the Bert Thomas Storytelling Grant to support the school’s theatre program and its upcoming production of Mamma Mia!. This grant will provide essential materials for set design, lighting, sound, and costuming, helping students develop technical theatre skills while bringing storytelling to life. Thank you to the Strick Dalton and Bert Thomas families for making these opportunities possible!

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2023-2024 Strick Dalton Innovation Classroom Grant Recipient
Congratulations to the team of Carmen Money, Christine Achambault, Erin Espinoza, Shannon Greene, Kate Highsmith, Jennifer Koerner and Laurel Reisen for their project, Pioneering Prosthetics for Life’s Diverse Ecosystems, as the recipient of the Strick Dalton Innovation Classroom Grant. Fourth-grade students at Coltrane-Webb Elementary will embark on a journey to design and create 3D limbs for Lego figures and explore the science and engineering by delving into research to understand how prosthetics are designed and utilized for animals in various ecological niches.

2024-2025 CLASSROOM GRANTS
We are honored to partner with family, friends and businesses to offer these classroom grants in memory of these people who touched Cabarrus County Schools.