Building the Pipeline for Tomorrow’s Workforce:  Student Internships

The Maryland Biotechnology Center will administer workforce and education grants to help students reach their academic and career goals. Building the pipeline of Maryland's future bioscience workforce is one of the Center's top priorities. Working with academic centers, education-focused foundations and industry partners, the Center will offer internship grants to enable students to obtain experience in an industry setting. At the same time, these internships offer participating companies the opportunity to influence, attract and build loyalty with these prospective employees.  The Center’s intent is to better integrate Maryland's biotechnology companies into the State's training and workforce recruitment efforts.

Building the Pipeline for Tomorrow’s Workforce:  Teacher Externships

Excitement is contagious.  The more that teachers can personally experience various career options in biotechnology, and the more excited about these career options they become, the more effectively they will influence their students to consider a career in biotechnology.  In this way, we can increase the pipeline for Maryland’s future workforce in the industry.  Similar to internships offered for students, the Center will offer summer “externships” to teachers that have specialized in the biological sciences, so they may experience the various career paths in the industry and continue inspiring future generations of bioscience talent.

Partner in One of Our Workforce Programs
 
Would your company or organization like to get involved in developing Maryland’s bioscience talent? 

Keeping in line with the State’s vision of bioscience leadership, the Center‘s workforce programs are targeted at training young talent today so they can become outstanding professionals tomorrow.  We cannot achieve this goal without your support.

If you are interested in fostering biotechnology education, contact the Center and find out how your organization can actively participate in our workforce programs. The Center can share in the cost of placement through one of our training grant programs.

The Center is especially interested in the following types of corporate opportunities:

• Research & Development: basic biotechnology skills, especially in therapeutic,  diagnostic and research tools development
  
• Biomanufacturing: exposure to varied skill sets in production
  
• Contract Research Organizations: all aspects
  
• Alternative applications (e.g. biofuels development, industrial applications).

Benefits of participation include:

• Corporate visibility and promotional opportunities through the Center
  
• Company-Educational Institute relationships for future workforce opportunities
  
• Ensuring Maryland’s future leadership in the biosciences.