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NC State fuels North Carolina growing biotech sector; students get a career

A private company needed a non-standard bioreactor. Some NC State students needed a class project. It was the perfect match.

The students, working out of the Golden Leaf Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) on NC State’s Centennial Campus, built their bioreactor virtually from scratch after studying standard bioreactor designs. BTEC educates and trains students for North Carolina’s burgeoning biotech sector, now the third largest in the nation.

The students passed the class. The company got its bioreactor. Then gave the students jobs. Full-time, paying, start-my-new-career jobs. That’s a class project that got a nice reaction.