WILMINGTON – This week started out differently for a cohort of 24 students as they graduated from the new eight-week BioConnect program that began in hopes of encouraging employment in Delaware’s growing life sciences sector.

Glendora Barksdale, the first of those 24 to walk across the stage and be celebrated with a certificate from the $3 million program, stopped on the way up to thank organizers of the program for “keeping hope alive.”

The intense tuition-free training program was hosted at EastSide Charter School’s new Chemours STEM Hub in Wilmington through the BioConnect DE which operates under the Delaware Center for Life Science Education and Training and Delaware BioScience Association.

With a graduation rate of 96%, students emerged with entry-level skills that could seat them

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