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Thanksgiving meal flyerSouth Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center chapter of Student Government Association (SGA) is set to sponsor a Thanksgiving meal for all currently enrolled SGTC students, faculty and staff on the Cordele campus. The meal will be held on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the LaPorte Auditorium on the Crisp County Center campus. The SGTC Culinary Arts Department will cater the traditional Thanksgiving meal, and asks that students, faculty and staff...

Shown are SGTC PBL Conference Attendees PBL President La’Keista Davis, Local Advisor Dr. Andrea Oates, State & Local Advisor Donna Lawrence, and Director of Public Relations Christian Holloman.The South Georgia Technical College’s Americus chapter of Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) recently brought home seven awards from the Fall Leadership Conference in Atlanta, which was hosted by the Georgia PBL. SGTC’s PBL chapter won three first place awards (March of Dimes Challenge, Chapter Preparation,...

Student of Excellence winner Noah McCleskeyNoah McCleskey of Pinehurst, a Welding and Joining student, was the recipient of the November Student of Excellence Award for the Crisp County Center of South Georgia Technical College. This award recognizes an outstanding student from six of the program areas at the school. Program instructors nominate one student from their programs who has exhibited high standards academically, socially and professionally. The student who receives this honor has...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford and Board member Janet Siders (c) are shown above with Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) Commissioner Gretchen Corbin and TCSG Deputy Commissioner Matt Arthur along with TCDA representatives for the SGTC board earning 100% certification for the 2017 year. The South Georgia Technical College Board of Directors was recognized as a fully certified board at the Technical College Directors Association and the Technical College...

SGTC Lady Jet Houlfat Mahouchiza signs a letter of intent to continue her basketball career with the University of Minnesota. Mahouchiza sits at the signing table between assistant coach Kezia Conyers (left) and head coach James Frey (right).South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets basketball player Houlfat Mahouchiza has signed a letter of intent to continue her college career at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, a member of the Big Ten conference. The Nice, France native and...

SGTC Jet DeVante Foster signs a letter of intent to continue his basketball career at Troy University in Troy, Al. Left to right: Chris Ballauer, DeVante Foster, Travis Garrett. South Georgia Technical College’s DeVante Foster, a 6-foot-9 sophomore forward for the Jets basketball team, has signed a letter of intent to continue his basketball career and education at Troy University in Troy, Al. The Sound Doctrine Christian Academy transfer played in 13 games for the central Florida team in...

Pictured from left to right are SGTC Criminal Justice Technology advisory committee members (front) Sheriff Pete Smith, Chief Chris Hall, (back) Vanessa Wall, Lt. Tony Bobbitt, Teresa McCook and Major Brett Murray.The South Georgia Technical College Criminal Justice Technology advisory committee met recently in the Criminal Justice classroom on the SGTC Americus Campus to discuss the link between the school and the career field. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South...

Kayla Holmes dribbles the ball past a Denmark Tech defender. The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets defeated the Denmark Tech Lady Panthers 57-26 in their second game of the season, improving their record to 2-0 and rounding out their perfect weekend at home. The No. 13 ranked Lady Jets entered the half leading by 16 points and closed out the day with an impressive 31-point lead over the Lady Panthers. On offense, the Lady Jets hit just 25 of the 61 shots from the field, working out...

The National Technical Honor Society is set to hold its sixth annual "Giving Tree" drive.The National Technical Honor Society is set to hold its sixth annual "Giving Tree" drive. The South Georgia Technical College chapter of the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) will be displaying its sixth annual “Holiday Giving Tree” in Hicks Hall on the Americus campus between Nov. 16 and Dec. 1. The purpose of the tree is to provide assistance to students who demonstrate a need during the...

Pictured from left to right are SGTC Fire Science Technology advisory committee members Capt. Stephen Morris, Chief Darrell Holbrook, Chief Roger Bivins, Vanessa Wall, David Trussell, Chief Augusta Telfair and Chief John Ekaitis.The South Georgia Technical College Fire Science Technology advisory committee met recently in the Fire Science classroom on the SGTC Americus campus. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff in continuous quality...

Cynthia Carter, SGTC’s director of career services, has been announced as the GOAL coordinator for 2019.South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford has announced that Cynthia Carter, the director of career services at the college, will coordinate the 2018 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) program. GOAL, a statewide program of the Technical College System of Georgia, honors excellence among the state’s technical college students. According to Carter, the...

South Georgia Technical College students celebrated Halloween recently with festivities that included a costume contest, pumpkin carving contest and horror movie showing. The events, which took place in Hicks Hall on the Americus campus, were sponsored by the Student Government Association. SGTC students from several program areas dressed up in their most creative and scary costumes and stood before the judges for the costume contest. Each program was judged as a whole before each student...