{"id":37,"date":"2021-03-04T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pittcc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2021-volume-14-issue-1\/bivans-makes-the-most-of-opportunities-to-graduate-land-job-before-age-20\/"},"modified":"2021-04-03T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:50:25","slug":"bivans-makes-the-most-of-opportunities-to-graduate-land-job-before-age-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pittcc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2021-volume-14-issue-1\/bivans-makes-the-most-of-opportunities-to-graduate-land-job-before-age-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Bivans Makes the Most of Opportunities to Graduate, Land Job Before Age 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\"><em>by Rob Goldberg<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">F<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">or most college students, 19 is the ideal age for determining a field of study that\u2019ll lead to job prospects and result in a rewarding career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">But Annabel Bivans isn\u2019t like most college students. For her, age 19 was the time for wrapping up a two-year degree in biotechnology at Pitt Community College to begin a full-time job at Mayne Pharma, a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Greenville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">The daughter of college instructors, Bivans was a dedicated student, as could be expected. Her father, Tim, teaches simulation and game design at Pitt while her mother, Donna, is a member of the PCC science faculty. So, it should come as no surprise that one of the first words Annabel ever spoke contained five syllables.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cMy mom teaches biology, so I\u2019ve been around science brains like my whole life,\u201d Annabel says. \u201cShe likes to tell people that one of my first words was \u2018photosynthesis.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Bivans\u2019 path from high school to gainful employment began while she was at Ayden-Grifton High School \u2014 and it\u2019s one for other science-minded students to consider following. After hearing about Pitt\u2019s biotech program, she took an introductory course during the summer of 2018 to learn more about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cEver since then, I\u2019ve loved (biotechnology),\u201d Bivans says, adding that PCC\u2019s Career and College Promise program gave her the \u201cbest opportunity possible\u201d to make progress toward an associate degree before she\u2019d even earned a diploma and enrolled at Pitt full-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">And just when it seemed things couldn\u2019t get any better for Bivans, Mayne Pharma teamed up with PCC, Pitt County Schools, and the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce to launch a new scholars program. Announced in the spring of 2019, the initiative was designed to identify high potential, STEM-focused students and invest in their education toward a career in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically with Mayne Pharma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Bivans says she applied to the scholars program, took part in an interview, and was one of seven students selected to receive a full, two-year scholarship to attend PCC for biotechnology. In addition to paying her tuition, the program featured an internship with Mayne Pharma that gave Bivans a glimpse of things to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cI started the internship in January (of 2020), helping in labs, making solutions, training on equipment,\u201d Bivans said. \u201cI would be in the lab (working) and seeing other people doing the stuff that I would be doing in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">When Bivans graduated from the biotech program in December, she had a job waiting for her at Mayne Pharma, thanks to her participation in the scholars program. \u201cI love the people (at Mayne Pharma),\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s really like an open and supportive community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">At a time when many college graduates across the country are saddled with tremendous debt from taking out loans to pay for their schooling, Bivans has begun her professional career with a clean slate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cIt feels great to be a PCC graduate,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m actually going to be successful with (biotechnology). 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