21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP

North Carolina Virtual Public School and Learn and Earn online collaborate with national and international partners to discover transformational strategies that will facilitate change, remove barriers for 21st century learning, and understand global connections for 21st Century learners.

Moreover, NCVPS and LEO work with our LEA partners to make decisions in collaboration with parents, students, businesses, education institutions, and faith based and other community and civic organizations to impact student success. To find out how you can become involved with our partners, contact us at www.ncvps.org

UNG I-School
If you're a junior or senior in high school and are starting to think about college, I-School offers a program to help you get ready for it:
UNCG iSchool, a way for high school juniors and seniors to get ahead of the game by taking college classes while still in high school.

MCNC
Through MCNC, North Carolina was one of the first states in the nation to create a statewide research and education network in 1985. After 20 years of collaboration and innovation, the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) now provides high-speed Internet, video, audio, and data center services to universities and other institutions
across the state.

Learn NC
LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K-12 education and makes them available to teachers and students.

SAS
SAS is the leader in business intelligence and predictive analytics software. With 32 years' experience and 43,000 customer sites worldwide, we can help you manage performance by transforming your data into predictive insights.

The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
Conducts research, creates resources, and advocates to improve teaching and learning, and provide services to educators and policymakers. The work focuses on innovations that will help prepare all students, from preschool through college, to live and work successfully in the 21st century.

Futures 4 Kids
Futures for Kids bridges the gap between the hopes and dreams of our students and the workforce development needs of our communities. F4K:
Uses the Internet to help students discover what makes them tick; allows kids to explore careers that match their unique talents; gives every student a career coach to talk to; empowers educators with information about their kids’ career goals; enables businesses to grow their future workforce locally; and shows our kids careers that can make them happy.

The North Carolina Technology Association
NCTA is the primary voice of the technology industry in North Carolina. NCTA is dedicated to growing and strengthening the technology industry through increasing public awareness and influencing key public policy issues. We provide our members the opportunity to network with other industry leaders, share information on critical technologies, and promote their companies. NCTA also has a 501 (c) 3 education foundation which operates and manages its educational programming.