SGTC Honor Society inducts new members
Friday September 3, 2010
The South Georgia Technical College chapter of the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) inducted 47 new members in a recent ceremony in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus recently. Carolyn Myers, South Georgia Tech’s ... more

Rutland teaches SGTC students Dos and Don'ts of Resume Writing
Thursday September 2, 2010
Over 25 South Georgia Technical College students recently attended a workshop called “Dos and Don’ts of Resume Writing” on SGTC’s Americus campus. Georgia Rutland, Career Advisor with the Georgia Department of Labor Career Center told students in SGTC’s ... more

Job Fair set for September 15th
Wednesday September 1, 2010
The Georgia Department of Labor’s Americus Career Center, South Georgia Technical College Career Services and the Americus Area Employer Committee ... more

Gail Clary named SGTC Purchasing Technician
Monday August 30, 2010
South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) Accounts Payable Technician Gail Clary of Americus has been named Purchasing Technician for SGTC, announced SGTC President Sparky Reeves recently. As Purchasing Technician, Clary will be responsible for preparing ... more

SGTC Crisp County Student Leadership Council holds fundraiser
Monday August 30, 2010
The South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Student Leadership Council members held a chicken plate fundraiser to benefit the O’Neal Pre-K program recently. The SGTC Crisp County Center Student Leadership Council has a history of ... more

SGTC Environmental Horticulture students tour Peach County nurseries
Thursday August 26, 2010
South Georgia Technical College Environmental Horticulture students recently toured four plant nurseries in Peach County as part of their Nursery Management class. The field trip consisted of a diverse cross-section of successful nursery operations, ... more

Jazmine Burden named SGTC Student of the Quarter
Thursday August 26, 2010
South Georgia Technical College Accounting student Jazmine Burden of Vienna was the summer quarter recipient of the Student of the Quarter Award for SGTC’s Crisp County Center recently. This award recognizes an outstanding student from each of the eleven ... more

Deadline is Friday for SGTC Wild Adventures trip
Wednesday August 18, 2010
South Georgia Technical College’s Student Leadership Council (SLC) is planning a trip to Wild Adventures in Valdosta and all South Georgia Technical College students are welcome to attend, said SGTC Director of Campus Life Brandan Harrell recently. The ... more

SGTC Commercial Truck Driving advisory committee meets
Wednesday August 18, 2010
The South Georgia Technical College Commercial Truck Driving (CTD) advisory committee met recently on the SGTC Americus campus. Advisory committee members met with SGTC’s Commercial Truck Driving instructors James “Scooter” Alford, Jr. and Sherry ... more

Cordele Dispatch officials tour Crisp County Center
Tuesday August 17, 2010
Dr. John Watford, South Georgia Technical College Vice President of Operations for the Crisp County Center, gave Cordele Dispatch Publisher Peggy King and Advertising Director Christine Mann a tour of the new Crisp County Center Expansion’s new Culinary ... more

SGTC Horticulture students tour Coastal Plains Arboretum
Monday August 16, 2010
South Georgia Technical College Environmental Horticulture students recently visited the Coastal Plains Arboretum at the University of Georgia’s Tifton campus. The students, along with Forest Technology students from Okefenokee Technical College, were ... more

Back to School Block Party to be held for GSW and SGTC students
Monday August 16, 2010
College students in the area can look forward to the City of Americus’s second annual Back to School Block Party, which will take place this ... more

Cooks named SGTC Student of the Month for August
Friday August 13, 2010
South Georgia Technical College Practical Nursing student Nakevia Cooks of Cordele was named Student of the Month for August during the college’s Student Recognition Ceremony held in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus ... more

SGTC Crisp County Center expansion scheduled to open fall quarter with new program
Friday August 13, 2010
The South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center will have an additional 21,000 square feet available for its expanding student enrollment this fall, announced South Georgia Technical College President Sparky Reeves. The $5.9 million ... more

Committee Bridges SGTC and GSW to Americus and Sumter County Community
Friday August 13, 2010
Representatives from South Georgia Technical College, Georgia Southwestern State University, and local community leaders and entrepreneurs make up the Bridging Campus to Community (BCC) Committee, which met recently at the Rees Park Economic Development ... more

South Georgia Technical College Posts 21st Consecutive Quarter of Growth
Wednesday August 11, 2010
South Georgia Technical College posted its 21st consecutive quarter of growth Summer Quarter 2010, which is the longest consistent record for growth in the Technical College System of Georgia, announced SGTC President Sparky Reeves. This past ... more

PharmaCentra conducts new employee training at SGTC
Wednesday August 11, 2010
PharmaCentra of Americus conducted new employee training for over 20 new full-time Health Care Specialists in the John M. Pope Center on the South Georgia Technical College campus recently. Shown above are the new employees undergoing training ... more

Takenya Jordan receives the Leonard and Marie Waitsman Marketing Scholarship at South Georgia Technical College
Tuesday August 10, 2010
Takenya Jordan of Americus, a Marketing Management student at South Georgia Technical College, has been selected as the second recipient of the Leonard and Marie Waitsman Marketing Scholarship, which was established and endowed by the Waitsman family ... more

SGTC Culinary Arts Advisory Committee meets
Monday August 9, 2010
The South Georgia Technical College Culinary Arts advisory committee met recently in The Landings II restaurant in Hicks Hall on the SGTC Americus campus. Advisory committee members met with SGTC’s Culinary Arts instructors David Finley and Jennifer ... more

Richard McCorkle Recognized for Service to SGTC Board of Directors
Friday August 6, 2010
South Georgia Technical College Board of Directors Chairman Richard McCorkle of Marion County was presented with an appreciation award at the August SGTC board meeting for the completion of his one-year term as Chairman of the local group. ... more

SGTC alumni opens Mane Street Salon
Friday August 6, 2010
Keven Gilbert The Americus Times-Recorder AMERICUS — On June 1 a new hair salon, Mane Street Salon, opened in downtown Americus. Owned and operated by Americus native Michael Tindol, the salon specializes in cuts, colors, perms as well as ... more

SGTC's Summers teaches Customer Service class for SCS
Friday August 6, 2010
AMERICUS — Soon after his arrival in Americus to assume leadership as Superintendent of Sumter County Schools, Roy Brooks shared his six priorities for improving the local district. Number three in his list of six goals is to improve customer service. ... more

Play 18-holes of Golf for only $10
Thursday August 5, 2010
The Georgia Southwestern State University Griffin Bell Golf Links on Lee Street in Americus will be sponsoring GSW and South Georgia Technical ... more

Former Florida State University Football Coach Bobby Bowden Visits SGTC campus
Tuesday August 3, 2010
Bobby Bowden, former head football coach at Florida State University, flew into the South Georgia Technical College’s Griffin B. Bell Aerospace Technology Center airplane hangar recently on the way to a speaking engagement at Central Baptist Church ... more

Boy Scout Troop Tours South Georgia Tech’s NASA Lab
Tuesday August 3, 2010
Approximately eight boy scouts from Boy Scout Troop 1 of First Baptist Church in Albany visited the South Georgia Technical College NASA Lab in the Griffin B. Bell Aerospace Center on the South Georgia Technical College Americus campus. South ... more

SGTC Student Leadership Council to organize trip to Wild Adventures
Tuesday August 3, 2010
South Georgia Technical College’s Student Leadership Council (SLC) is planning a trip to Wild Adventures in Valdosta and all South Georgia Technical ... more

SGTC's Stone attends Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police Conference
Monday August 2, 2010
South Georgia Technical College Director of Campus Safety Chief Sammy T. Stone, Jr. recently attended the 2010 Annual Summer Training Conference sponsored by the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police as part of his continuing education and training ... more

SGTC hosts Youth Basketball camp
Friday July 30, 2010
South Georgia Technical College recently hosted a Youth Basketball Camp for boys and girls aged 9—12 in South Georgia Technical College’s gymnasium, “The Hangar.” SGTC Jets Head Coach Steven Wright and Jets Assistant Coach Reco Dawson taught 16 local ... more

SGTC hosts How to Improve Your Credit Score workshop
Friday July 30, 2010
South Georgia Technical College recently hosted a How to Improve Your Credit Score workshop in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on SGTC’s Americus campus. Approximately 20 students gathered for the informational session, led by Gail Dunn, ... more

Kia Donates 2011 Sorento to South Georgia Technical College
Thursday July 29, 2010
West Point, Ga. -- South Georgia Technical College President Sparky Reeves received a Kia "key to the future" during a special event held recently at the Kia Georgia Training Center in West Point, Ga., when Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Inc. (KMMG) ... more

Shirley Trice receives HERO award for service to SGTC cafeteria
Wednesday July 28, 2010
Shirley Trice, ARAMARK Food Service Director at South Georgia Technical College in Americus, Georgia, was recognized as the winner of the “Hero of the South” award recently at the ARAMARK Southern Region “I Thrive” 2010 Summit at Young Harris, Georgia. ... more

South Georgia Tech and TCSG Sets Enrollment Record with Highest-Ever One-Year increase
Tuesday July 27, 2010
South Georgia Technical College and the Technical College System of Georgia have set a new all-time high annual enrollment record for this past year and set a new enrollment record for the highest ever one year increase. The entire system has grown ... more

Ruth Jones provides new educational opportunities for SGTC Culinary Arts students
Tuesday July 27, 2010
Mrs. Ruth Jones has endowed a new scholarship at South Georgia Technical College to benefit culinary arts students. This is Mrs. Jones fourth endowed scholarship and it was established and endowed in memory of Mrs. Jones mother, Burrelle C. Strickland. ... more

Robbie Latimore: Her prescription for the mind
Tuesday July 27, 2010
By Kelby Lamar Americus Scenes Magazine Americus Times Recorder AMERICUS — “Seeing students making better lives for themselves and developing a career is one of the most rewarding aspects of my job,” says Robbie Latimore, Ed.D. Latimore did not ... more

How to Improve Your Credit Score workshop to be held at SGTC
Monday July 26, 2010
South Georgia Technical College will host a “How to Improve Your Credit Score” workshop on its Americus campus this Wednesday, July 28th at ... more

Sixteen entrepreneurs attend Start Your Own Business seminar at South Georgia Tech
Friday July 23, 2010
Sixteen individuals interested in owning and operating local businesses attended South Georgia Technical College’s free “Start Your Own Business” seminar recently in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus. The ... more