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Americus Rotary Club Past President Don Smith (l) is shown above presenting a check to David Bush (r), who was selected as the SGTC 2020 GOAL student of the year.     Americus Rotary Club Past President Don Smith presented South Georgia Technical College Air Conditioning Technology student David Bush of Cuthbert with a stipend recently on behalf of the Americus Rotary Club after he was recognized as the college’s 2020 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner by SGTC...

South Georgia Tech’s Yasriyya Wazeerud-Din (13) had 27 points for the Lady Jets against Central Georgia Tech.MACON, Ga – The South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets traveled to Macon to take on Central Georgia Technical College Wednesday night and the Lady Jets came away with their eighth consecutive win in an 84 – 73 contest but the Jets lost another close one, 69 – 63.    “It was a good conference win for the Lady Jets,” said South Georgia Technical College Athletic...

South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves (l) and Allene (right) are shown above presenting a scholarship check to 2020 GOAL winner David Bush (c).     South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, presented Air Conditioning Technology student David Bush with a $500 scholarship after he had been recognized as the college’s 2020 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner by SGTC President Dr. John Watford at the...

SGTC President Dr. John Watford is shown above (l) presenting former GOAL Coordinator Cynthia Carter with a plaque for her 13 years of service to the SGTC GOAL program.   South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford presented SGTC Career Services Director Cynthia Carter with a plaque for her 13 years of service as the South Georgia Technical College GOAL Coordinator during the college’s 2020 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership breakfast.    David Bush, a first year Air...

SGTC 2020 GOAL winner David Bush is shown above with his Air Conditioning Technology instructor, Glynn Cobb. https://www.wrbl.com/news/south-georgia-technical-college-in-americus-announces-2020-goal-award-recipient/ by: Keldreck Conwell, WRBL Americus,Ga (WRBL)- A South Georgia Technical College student is a finalist for the state’s Technical College Student of the Year award. First-year student David Bush is from Cuthbert, Georgia, but attends SGTC in Americus where he studies air...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above (center left) thanking Georgia Power Executive Vice President Customer Service and Operations Pedro Cherry (center right). Shown (l to r) are: Georgia Power Human Resources Manager John Hood; Georgia Power Local Manager Don Porter, South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford, Georgia Power’s Pedro Cherry, Assistant to Executive Vice President Customer Service and Operations Rachel Williams and Georgia...

Air conditioning technology student David Bush (right) accepts the SGTC GOAL award from Dr. John Watford, SGTC President.David Bush, an air conditioning technology student from Cuthbert, has been named as South Georgia Technical College’s Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner for 2020. He will represent the college in regional and state level competitions, in an effort to be declared the statewide Student of the Year and the face of technical education in Georgia. South...

South Georgia Technical College Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey (r) is shown above with Terrie Battle, Athletic Coordinator for the Jets and Lady Jets (l) and SGTC’s Bobble Head ACE mascot. Bobble Head ACE is sporting the FREE t-shirt available to individuals at the Alumni/Sophomore Day event, while supplies last, on February 8th at SGTC. All alumni, students, faculty and staff, and retirees are urged to come out and enjoy the festivities.     South...

   Six colleges were shuffled around in the top 15 spots within the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) women’s basketball national rankings this week but the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets remained in the 16th position for the fourth consecutive week.     The Lady Jets are 23 – 2 overall and 13 - 0 in the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association, but they can’t seem to get any higher than 16th nationally.  The Lady Jets were ranked 24th in the pre-season...

Synovus’ Tami Duke is shown above (left) presenting Dorothea Lusane McKenzie with a donation from Synovus for being selected as the South Georgia Technical College 2020 Instructor of the Year.    South Georgia Technical College Cosmetology Instructor Dorothea Lusane McKenzie was presented with a check from Synovus Bank in Americus recently after she was selected as the South Georgia Technical College Instructor of the Year for 2020.  She will represent the college at a...

South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves (l) and Allene (r), are shown above presenting a check to SGTC 2020 Instructor of the Year Dorothea Lusane McKenzie (c).     South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, presented South Georgia Tech’s 2020 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year winner, Dorothea Lusane McKenzie, with a stipend from the South Georgia Technical College Foundation’s Sparky and Allen Reeves endowed fund at...

Niya Goudelock, 3, led the Lady Jets in scoring with 16 points against East Georgia.   It was Super Saturday at South Georgia Technical College when the Jets and the Lady Jets took impressive Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) victories over the East Georgia State College Bobcats and Lady Bobcats Saturday.     The nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets defeated the East Georgia Lady Bobcats 83 – 53 in the opening game to secure their seventh consecutive...