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Alyssa Nieves, (4), named to the All-American Honorable Mention team by the National Junior College Athletic Association. South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets sophomore guard Alyssa Nieves from Tampa, FL, was selected as a member of the All-American Honorable Mention squad for 2019 by the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I Women’s Basketball Committee. Nieves helped lead the 2018-2019 Lady Jets to their third consecutive NJCAA National...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford was presented with a framed autographed basketball by the Lady Jets for their trip to the national tournament in 2019. Shown above with Dr. Watford are Lady Jets head coach James Frey and Assistant Coach Kezia Conyers. South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford quoted lyrics from the song “We May Never Pass This Way (Again) by Seals & Crofts when he described how much the college appreciates the sophomores from...

Sports and leisure management advisory committee members stand together in The Hangar. Left to right: Dr. Andrea Oates, Jeff Fussell, James Frey, Tim Estes, Chris Ballauer, Terri Battle.South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) sports and fitness management program advisory committee met recently on the college’s Americus campus to discuss the current state of the program and the industry as a whole. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff...

South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) will hold a Summer semester registration event on Wednesday, April 17 for new and returning students on both campuses. Orientation sessions will be held for new students at 9:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on the Americus campus and at 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the Cordele campus to accommodate for different schedules. The Summer semester begins on May 23 and lasts just eight weeks. The shortened semester serves as an opportunity for students to get ahead...

Students gather around the air-conditioning technology table during a live-demonstration during last year’s Spring Take-off event.South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) annual “Spring Take-off” preview day will be held on Thursday, April 18 in the college’s Americus campus gymnasium. The event will last from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will feature giveaways and a free hotdog lunch to attendees. The event, now in its fifth year, will be similar in layout to previous years – each of...

Shown above are the South Georgia Technical College Phi Beta Lambda state winners. They are Allysia Oliver, Christopher Mathews, and Kennedy Allen, all of Vienna, and they will represent the South Georgia Tech Crisp County Center PBL organization at the national competition in Texas in June.Atlanta, GA - Six South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) students attended the PBL State Leadership Conference in Atlanta recently and three of those students earned...

Community leaders are shown above during the TIA Celebration and ribbon cutting held on the South Georgia Technical College front lawn recently.   Community leaders gathered recently at South Georgia Technical College to celebrate the Transportation Investment Act (TIA) results and officially cut the ribbon on the roundabout at South Georgia Tech Parkway and Highway 49.   The TIA used TSPLOST (Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) to fund and complete transportation...

Ron Clark is shown above with some of his students.Americus, GA – Ron Clark, teacher and administrator of the award-winning and internationally acclaimed Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, will be the keynote speaker at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center’s Community Health Symposium on Saturday, April 13 in the South Georgia Technical College gymnasium. The event is free and open to the public.   The Community Health Symposium will cover important healthcare issues important to the community....

Marketing management advisory members stand together during their recent meeting. Left to right: Jamie Jones, Andrea Tatum, Jessica Wright, Mary Cross, Harriet Glover and Dr. Andrea Oates.South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) marketing management program advisory committee met recently on the college’s Americus campus to discuss the current state of the program and the industry as a whole. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff in...

Georgia State Patrol Trooper Anthony Wright talks about impaired driving with South Georgia Technical College students.South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) recently kicked off April as alcohol awareness month by inviting a Georgia State Patrol Trooper to speak to students about the dangers of driving under the influence. The event was held in the John M. Pope center on the college's Americus campus and was attended by 17 students and several administrators. Alcohol awareness month is...

A current lineworker student from SGTC helps an ASHS student climb a power pole during a recent tour of the program.Just as a group of six handpicked graduating seniors from Americus Sumter High School started to get quiet, Don Porter of Georgia Power asked, “how much do you think a lineman makes per hour starting out?” The students threw some numbers out – five, ten, twelve. The correct answer was $19 an hour. When calculated to an annual salary, the number comes out to roughly...

Nineteen students from South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) recently traveled to Atlanta to compete in the state-level SkillsUSA competitions. Of the 19, six students received gold medals in their competitions and will advance to the SkillsUSA National competitions in Louisville, KY at the end of June. The students who will advance include: Ethan Lyle for placing first in aviation maintenance technology; Charles Westra and Tison Smith (team of two) for placing first in the additive...