 Forsyth Technical Community College is pleased to be a national leader in preparing the biotechnology workforce for the future. Biotechnology and life science has been one of those areas that has suffered the least decline as much of our economy has been challenged over the last seven or eight years. In North Carolina, biotechnology employs well over 57,000 people. It's nearly a $65 billion industry for the state, so regardless of your career path or your desires or your strengths or weaknesses, you can begin exploring opportunities in this particular area. One of the major things that we're doing here is to create tissues and organs for patients and one of the major areas of focus is to use these tissues for our wounded warriors. We have currently several programs going on at the Institute aimed just at the goal of translating these technologies from the bench to the bedside for our wounded warriors. Years ago, my mom passed away from breast cancer and just so happened that the lab I was put with is studying breast cancer. All the people in my lab were extremely impressed of the skills that I had coming straight out of school. I have never thought that I would learn what I have in such a short period of time. I'm more comfortable. I feel like I'm successful and I can be successful in the future. I was students who were coming from biotechnology. They're not necessarily going to a biotech company. There are other fields also that we traditionally don't associate with biotechnology. For example, winemaking is a growing field. North Carolina is investing a lot in vineyard and growing the wine business. They need a lot of microbiologists for quality control, for fermentation. As a matter of fact, we have a major course here that is fermentation on the program here. So a lot of our students who take this course and who finish our program can go and work in the wine industry. Another industry that we never thought about before is the beer industry. Beer is growing. Micro breweries are growing as a specialty. The food industry also, they need to control the growth of bacteria or microorganisms. So anybody coming out of the biotech program is obvious that they will look at biotechnology or biotech companies as an area where they will go to work. But they have a lot of other areas that are suitable for these students also or graduates to make a good living.