New biofuels degree program opens at Central Carolina C.C.

Carolina News Wire
11-03-2008

PITTSBORO, N.C. -- P.J. Bordelon, fuel distribution manager for Piedmont Biofuels, in Pittsboro, and Will Mitchell, of Chapel Hill, who's thinking of becoming a farmer, dont seem to have much in common.

But get them talking about Central Carolina Community Colleges new Alternative Energy Technology: Biofuels associate degree program and they're equally enthusiastic.

I've been working on a degree in renewable and sustainable resources and I'm here to learn, said Bordelon. Taking the colleges program makes me more important as an employee for Piedmont.

Mitchell speaks fondly of a 1,000-acre farm in Georgia thats been in his family for eight generations. In addition to the biofuels training, he is finishing up a degree at the college in sustainable agriculture. Mitchell is also a graduate of the colleges REAL (Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning), a program that prepares people to successfully open and operate their own small businesses.

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