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May 5, 2022 20 mins

In this episode, we will find out the details of the Athens Tech Bioscience programs. 

 

Achieve More with Athens Tech, the official podcast of Athens Technical College.

A unit of the Technical College System of Georgia. Equal Opportunity Institution.

Welcome to achieve more with Athens Tech, the official podcast of Athens Technical College. This is where you'll discover how the programs at Athens Tech can connect you with in-demand and high paying careers. Today, we're going to look at the Bioscience program at Athens Tech.00:00:21S2I started out as just a lab tech, and I am now a senior protein chemist. And I just worked my way up the ladder here just with the skills that I gained and the knowledge that I gained from Athens Tech.00:00:38S3So we hire Athens tech students. We've hired a number of students. We, you know, interested in these students because they're trained in the skills that I need to do, the jobs that my clients want us to do.00:00:53S2On my first day, I walked in the door in the lab. Director said, Here's this, this, this, and this kind of looked at her and I knew exactly what to do, how to use the micro pipettes. I knew how to do everything.00:01:05S1Bioscience technicians used the principles and theories of science and mathematics to assist in research and development and in the invention and improvement of products and processes, which sounds incredibly cool. But the real story here is jobs. Lots of jobs in a growing industry.00:01:23S4With the partnership that we have with HTC is more than just being a student and it's more than just finding a job. It's you know, if you look at our charter at Athens Research, we're creating leaders in our company. We're creating leaders that are also better leaders outside these four walls. We called leaders in the community. And we're also creating leaders that we're respected in the industry.00:01:48S1We're going to get to that. But first, let's find out some details of what the Bioscience program actually is.00:01:56S3I'm Geoff Rap. I'm the program chair for Bioscience Spirit Athens Technical College. And I've been here about, well, since 2005. So we train people, it's a two year program and we train people to work in a laboratory or in a beer manufacturing facility, but mostly learning laboratory techniques, how to work in the lab and be comfortable working with equipment and taking measurements and recording things in a lab notebook, an environment manufacturing facility. Students would need to know the documentation that a company, for example, regulated by the FDA would want their employees to have. So documentation is important for for the companies they they love all of that stuff following standard operating procedures and batch records and 

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