Candice King
Candice King found a job with a local biotech company through a Baltimore workforce training program, but it wasn’t only about getting the skills to work in a lab.
“Putting on that lab jacket placed a sense of accomplishment inside of me that I was missing for quite some time,” said King. She’s a 2013 graduate of the BioTechnical Institute of Maryland (BTI), which celebrated its 20th anniversary on Wednesday evening at the B&O Railroad Museum.
King learned about BTI 5 years ago and, after she made it through three rounds of testing and an interview, was admitted to program. At the time, she had a three year old son – Joshua – and was homeless, but determined. “I wanted to graduate with a greater than 3.5 GPA, get an internship at Johns Hopkins and get a job and be able to have a car and place to live,” King said
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