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Chef Little is shown above conducting the Heathy Cooking Demonstration for Crisp Regional Hospital.Cordele, GA - The Crisp Regional Chronic Care Management & Chronic Kidney Disease Program held the first cooking demonstration for CCM & CKD program participants recently at the South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center. Austin Histon, LPN, organized the event with the help of Crisp Regional Hospital AVP of Quality Services, Jodi Ingram. The cooking class as led by South Georgia...

South Georgia Technical College is currently Changing Lives through workforce education. Enroll today for Summer Semester.    South Georgia Technical College is currently registering students for an eight-week summer semester session which begins on May 25th and can be completed by July 29th.  There are no test requirements for admission.  The college will be hosting in-person registration and orientation sessions on Tuesday, April 19th in Americus and on the Crisp County Center...

The Crisp County Power Commission donated a 2000 GMC 8500 Digger Derrick truck to the South Georgia Technical College Foundation recently to be used in the college’s Electrical Lineworker program. Shown above (l to r) in front of the truck are: SGTC Electrical Lineworker Instructor Dewey Turner, Crisp County Power Commission Mechanic Trey McBryant, SGTC Instructor Harold Ergle, Crisp County Power’s Manager of Operations Blake Manning, Director of HR Ladreka Daniels, and Chairman Ray...

The SGTC Crisp County Center Accounting, Business Technology, and Marketing Management Advisory committee met recently. Shown above (l to r): David Wade, City of Cordele; Nicole Turner, SGTC Business Technology Adjunct Instructor; Karen Bloodworth, Accounting/Marketing Management Instructor; Teresa Jolly, Business Technology Instructor; Julie Partain, Dean of Enrollment Management; Michelle McGowan, Director of Business and Industry Services; Becky Fitzgibbons, Crisp County Power; and Sandi...

Greg Long is shown above with the South Georgia Technical College logo when he came out to update his workforce records and let the college know he is now a local business owner putting his skills to work.   South Georgia Technical College Barbering alumnus Greg Long decided to make a change in his life and has now opened Long Cuts Barber Shop, which he describes as “an old-fashioned barber shop” at 200 Windsor Avenue in Americus.     Long worked at Electrical Wholesale Supply in...

2022-2023 SGTC Student Government Association officers (l-r): Jy’mia Fann, Parliamentarian; Makayla McCant, Reporter; Montavious Angry, Secretary; Anna Rees, Vice President; and Brandon Price, President.The South Georgia Technical College Student Government Association (SGA) recently held a meeting on the SGTC campus in Americus. The SGA is composed of student representatives from different program areas. At the recent meeting led by Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs and SGA...

Eden Edge   Eden Edge of Cordele has been hired as an Adjunct Nail Tech Instructor for the South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center, announced President Dr. John Watford recently.  SGTC will begin offering the Nail Tech Program on its Crisp County Center campus beginning May 25th.   She will report to SGTC Dean of Enrollment Management Julie Partain and SGTC Vice President for Academic Affairs David Kuipers.    “We are pleased to have Eden Edge join South Georgia Technical...

Frank Gassett, second from left, is shown above with two of his former graduates, Dan Linginfelter and Dr. Royce Ann Martin, as well as SGTC President Dr. John Watford. Linginfelter and Martin both retired after tremendous careers in the aviation maintenance field. Linginfelter who is now Chairman of the Technical College System of Georgia State Foundation Board and former TCSG Alumnus of the Year, retired from Delta Air Lines as the Atlanta Station Manager, International. He also recently...

Shown above with SGTC Assistant Vice President Josh Curtin (left) are some of the SGTC faculty, staff, and students who participated in the “Walk Your Way to a Health Happy Life” as part of the National Walking Day celebration.   South Georgia Technical College’s Student Affairs Department hosted a “Walk Your Way to a Healthy Happy Life” as part of the National Walking Day celebration.  All students, faculty and staff were encouraged to participate.     The original walk was...

SGTC Athletic Director James Frey (l to r) is shown above presenting the Lady Jets MVP Award to Kamya Hollingshed with assistant coaches Adenike Aderinto and Demetrius Colson looking on.     “A very special year” was the way South Georgia Technical College Jets Booster Club President Martha Arrington summed up the 2021 – 2022 basketball season for the Jets and Lady Jets at the Booster Club Awards/Recognition banquet held in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus...

Members of SGTC staff and the Sports and Fitness Management Advisory Council (l-r): Brian Davis, MSA Orthopedics; Jeff Fussell, Recreation Manager, Sumter County Parks and Recreation; Terri Battle, Athletics Coordinator; James Frey, Athletic Director and Lady Jets basketball Head Coach; Chris Ballauer, Jets basketball Head Coach; Tim Estes, Executive Director, Sumter County Parks and Recreation; Dr. David Finley, Academic Dean; and Nancy Fitzgerald, Grants Coordinator.The Sports and Fitness...

Members of SGTC staff and the Industrial Programs Advisory Council (l-r): Dr. David Finley, Academic Dean; Josh Strange, RAMTEC; Brad Aldridge, Welding Instructor; Ted Eschmann, Weldin Instructor; Nancy Fitzgerald, Grants Coordinator; Chad Brown, Precision Machining Instructor; Brian White, Southern Company; Betty Suggs, Ignite Academy; Mike Collins, Electronic Instructor; Michael Jakulski, Imerys; Patrick Owen Industrial/Electrical Systems Instructor.The South Georgia Technical College (SGTC)...