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South Georgia Technical College’s Tison Smith and Chance Westra are shown above participating in the Chapter Display competition. Six South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) students earned the right to compete in the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, KY recently and each of the students advanced to the final rounds of their respective competitions. In order to advance to the SkillsUSA Nationals, the South Georgia Technical College students had to finish...

Pictured above (l to r) are: Teresa, Jolly, PBL Advisor and Business Technology Instructor; Allysia Oliver, Business Technology student; Kennedy Allen, Business Technology student; Christopher Mathews, Business Technology student; and Karen Bloodworth, PBL Advisor and Accounting/Marketing Management Instructor. South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center’s Business Technology student, Kennedy Allen of Vienna, captured first place in the Computer Applications competition at...

South Georgia Technical College Licensed Practical Nursing Instructor Jennifer Childs is shown above with SGTC retiree Harry Dragon and SGTC’s Linda Edge at the Red Cross Blood Drive held at South Georgia Tech recently.   South Georgia Technical College hosted a blood drive through the American Red Cross recently. The blood drive was held in Hicks Hall on the Americus campus and all eligible donors were encouraged to participate.    The blood drive resulted in registering 29 total...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above greeting the individuals to the SGTC Adult Education advisory meeting recently. Adult Education Dean Lillie Ann Winn is also shown (left standing). South Georgia Technical College’s Adult Education department hosted its advisory committee meeting recently in the John M. Pope Center on the Americus campus with representatives from each of the seven county areas served by South Georgia Technical College’s GED...

   South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford recently announced the college’s President’s List for the spring semester, which included 117 students from around the area and across the Southeast. To be eligible for the President’s List, a student must be enrolled full time (12 or more credit hours) in an associate degree or diploma program and have a 4.0 GPA for that semester’s coursework. Those students who qualified included: Crisp County: Nicholas...

Both the Sumter County School Board members and the Ignite College and Career Academy Board members and officials are shown above during the Groundbreaking ceremony. South Georgia Technical College officials were on hand to celebrate the Sumter County Board of Education’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new Sumter County High School that will be constructed on South Georgia Technical College Parkway across from South Georgia Technical College.    Several hundred community...

Shown above are a group of the SGTC culinary arts students with Chef “Ricky” Watzlowick getting ready for the restaurant project. South Georgia Technical College’s culinary arts students recently set up a pop-up restaurant in the college’s Hicks Hall “Landings” Restaurant and served Southern Cuisine to SGTC faculty and staff as part of their hands-on curriculum. This is the last pop-up restaurant in the series.    The menu consisted of southern pasta salad, potato...

Shown above are a group of the SGTC culinary arts students with Chef “Ricky” Watzlowick getting ready for the restaurant project.

Eulish Kinchens named Vice President of Student Affairs and Vanessa Wall named Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs with duties over Campus Security, On-Campus Housing and Student Activities at South Georgia Technical College. South Georgia Technical College Registrar Eulish Kinchens of Americus has been named Vice President of Student Affairs and Academic Dean Vanessa Wall of Ellaville will now serve as the Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs in charge of campus security,...

FREE SGTC STEM Camp set for July 16th – 18th in Americus. South Georgia Technical College will be hosting a FREE summer STEM camps for middle school students July 16th – 18th at the college at 900 South Georgia Tech Parkway, Americus, GA 31709. Space is limited and admission will be awarded on a first come – first sign up basis.    For more information about the camp, contact Nancy Fitzgerald at nfitzgerald@southgatech.edu or call 229-931-2508. Students can sign up for the...

Technical College System of Georgia Apprenticeship Manager for the Office of Workforce Development Holly Free-Ollard is shown above (l to r) with South Georgia Technical College Business and Industry Director Paul Farr, SGTC President Dr. John Watford, and SGTC Vice President of Economic Development Wally Summers. She presented an Industry Apprenticeship Training session at SGTC and approximately 35 individuals attended. Holly Free-Ollard, Apprenticeship Manager for the Technical College...

Chef “Ricky” Ludwig Watzlowick is shown above with some of the South Georgia Technical College culinary arts students who helped prepare the Jamaican cuisine presented as part of the “pop-up” restaurant project. South Georgia Technical College’s culinary arts students set up a pop-up restaurant in the college’s Hicks Hall “Landings” Restaurant and served Jamaican Cuisine to SGTC faculty and staff as part of their hands-on curriculum.    The menu consisted of a house...