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Central Carolina Community College offers the only Alternative Energy Technologies: Biofuels associate degree program in the North Carolina Community College System. In the program's laboratory at the college's Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro, student P.J. Bordelon (left) carefully adds a titration solution to a biofuel sample as students Pierce Coleman Cassedy (center) of Chatham County, Will Mitchell, of Chapel Hill, and Andrew McMahan, the college's biofuels coordinator, observe. Bordelon, of Pittsboro, is the fuel distribution manager at Piedmont Biofuels. 

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Central Carolina Community College offers the only Alternative Energy Technologies: Biofuels associate degree program in the North Carolina Community College System. In the program's laboratory at the college's Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro, student Pierce Coleman Cassedy (left) of Chatham County, carefully adds a titration solution to a biofuel sample as students Will Mitchell (center), of Chapel Hill, and P.J. Bordelon, of Pittsboro, observe. 

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Central Carolina Community College offers the only Alternative Energy Technologies: Biofuels associate degree program in the North Carolina Community College System. In the program's laboratory at the college's Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro, instructor Bob Armantrout (second from left), of Moncure, explains to students (from left) Pierce Coleman Cassedy, of Chatham County, Will Mitchell, of Chapel Hill, and P.J. Bordelon, of Pittsboro, how to use a pipette pump in biofuel testing. 

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Central Carolina Community College offers the only Alternative Energy Technologies: Biofuels associate degree program in the North Carolina Community College System. In the program's laboratory at the college's Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro, separatory funnels contain biofuels the students made from various sources (from left): peanut oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, chicken fat, chicken fat second source, lard, walnut oil, hemp oil, waste vegetable oil, and soy oil. The jars contain biodiesel and glycerin. 

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Cornelius Lewis, of Durham, an associate degree student in Sustainable Agriculture at Central Carolina Community College, thins the arugula plants in the college's greenhouse on the Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro. The college started offering sustainable agriculture classes in 1996 and, in 2002, became the first community college in the nation to offer an associate degree in this field. The college also offers certificates in sustainable vegetable production, sustainable livestock production, and agricultural sustainability.