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Lady Jets sophomores are shown with their family and friends and SGTC President Dr. John Watford. Shown above are all of the Jets and Lady Jets sophomores and their family and friends.      A day of celebration was the best way to describe the South Georgia Technical College Alumni/Sophomore Day Celebration held recently when the Jets and the Lady Jets matched-up against East Georgia State College and Georgia Highlands in a double-header.     There was a total of 14 sophomores recognized...

GCAA 2023 Women’s Basketball Playoff brackets   The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets closed out the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) 2022 – 2023 season with a perfect 15 – 0 record to clinch the top spot in the GCAA – NJCAA Region XVII end of the season tournament which begins Tuesday, February 28th.     As the top ranked GCAA team, the Lady Jets drew a bye in the first round of the end of the season tournament and the right to host the semi-finals and finals...

South Georgia Technical College Americus Culinary Arts Instructor Chef “Ricky” Watzlowick is shown above with his three Culinary Arts students who earned scholarships recently from the SGTC Foundation. Shown with Instructor Watzlowick are: Donald Gooden, the Glover Foods Scholarship winner; SGTC President Dr. John Watford, Janelle Dodson, the Burnell C. Strickland Scholarship recipient; and Alice Bridges, the Patel Family – Windsor Hotel Scholarship winner.   Three South Georgia...

Pictured is Paula Shaw (right), the overall Student of Excellence winner for the SGTC Crisp County Center, with SGTC Business Technology instructor Nicole Turner.The South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Crisp County Center in Cordele recently recognized several students for outstanding work in their respective programs. Paula Shaw of Byromville, a Business Technology student, was honored as the overall Student of Excellence. Shaw was nominated by her instructor, Nicole Turner. As the...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford (right center) and speaker Carvel Lewis (left center) are shown above with the SGTC Black History Celebration program participants. They were: SGTC Cosmetology student Kaitlin Champion, SGTC Executive Assistant to the President Teresa O’Bryant, SGTC Air Conditioning student Shannon Jones, SGTC Rick Perkins Instructor of Year Chester Taylor, Cynthia Lewis-Anderson, Carvel Lewis, SGTC President Dr. John Watford, Alma Willis, Dr....

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above (center) along with Al Harris (l to r), Vickie Austin, Jones-Harris Scholarship recipients Chase Reeves and Rosemary Sanchez and SGTC Automotive Technology Instructor Brandon Dean. Not shown is SGTC Foundation executive director Su Ann Bird.The South Georgia Technical College Foundation presented Chase Reeves and Rosemary Sanchez, outstanding Automotive Technology students with the Phil Jones – Alfred “Foots”...

Pictured left to right are SGTC WIOA coordinator Sandhya Muljibhai, air conditioning student Shannon Jones, and WIOA Administrative Assistant Sarah Teal.SGTC Air Conditioning instructor Johnny Griffin (right) and student Shannon Jones. Jones received financial assistance through the federal WIOA program and will graduate in May.The Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) is a federal program established in 2014 to help serve laid-off individuals and income-eligible adults who need job...

Shown above are the SGTC Practical Nursing students and instructors displaying their personal and professional Exergen TemporalScanner thermometers.   Exergen Corporation of Watertown, MA, provided 57 Exergen home TemporalScanner thermometers and eight professional TemporalScanner model thermometers to the South Georgia Technical College practical nursing students and programs on both the Americus and the Crisp County Center campuses recently.    Exergen Corporation, manufacturer of the...

Bryce Turner, 11, was the top scorer for the Jets in the win over Central Georgia Tech.Macon, Georgia – Central Georgia Technical College took a 67 – 66 lead with 18 seconds remaining.  The Jets brought the ball in and across half-court before calling a time out with 12 seconds on the clock.  The Jets inbounded the ball to sophomore Aaron Pitts Jr., who scored the winning layup with 3.5 seconds to put the Jets ahead 68 – 67 and allow them to snap a nine-game losing streak.    “I am...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above (far right) with SGTC Heavy Equipment Dealer Service Technology instructors Don Rountree (back row left) and the seven CAT Think Big students that received the scholarships for their outstanding academic and leadership qualities. They are: (front row l to r) Justin Ethan Troglin, Benjamin Smelcer, Alaina Worthington, and Noah K. Smith. On the back row (l to r) with instructor Don Rountree are: Andrew Turner, Patrick...

Alexia Dizeko, 5, named Women’s Basketball GCAA Player of the Week.   South Georgia Technical College’s Alexia Dizeko has been selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Women’s Basketball player of the week for the week of February 20th 2023.  This is her fourth time this season that she has been recognized for this honor.    Dizeko, a 5’ 11” sophomore forward from Sion Switzerland, averaged 20.6 points, 11 rebounds, two assists, 2.3 steals, and one...

     The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets remained in the first-place position in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s (NJCAA) Division I women’s basketball poll for the sixth consecutive week and received all 10 first place votes based on their 28 – 1 record.      The Lady Jets recorded back to back victories last week to extend their win streak to 28 straight games.  This allowed the Lady Jets to remain in first place ahead of Eastern Florida State which is 26...