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Kailee Whitmer, a 2023 Crisp County High School graduate, is the recipient of the South Georgia Technical College Crisp County High School Class of 1965 scholarship. She plans to enroll in the Drafting Technology program.     Kailee Whitmer of Arabi, a member of the 2023 graduating class of Crisp County High School, was nominated and selected to receive the Crisp County High School Class of 1965 scholarship from the South Georgia Technical College Foundation. The scholarship can be utilized...

SGTC Adjunct Jessakeetha Maddox will be the instructor for the Nail Technician Certificate program on the Americus campus this summer. She is shown with several of her dual enrollment students who are completing their nail tech pathway.   South Georgia Technical College is offering the Nail Technician Certificate program beginning summer term on the Americus campus.  Classes begin Wednesday, May 24 and will conclude July 27. Licensed Cosmetologist, Hair Stylist/Nail Technician Jessakeetha...

SGTC has recorded enrollment growth for the third consecutive semester.   South Georgia Technical College recorded its third consecutive growth in enrollment following COVID-19, announced South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford.  SGTC posted an 8.6% enrollment growth for Spring Semester which is over two times greater than the Technical College System of Georgia’s overall average growth of 3.9%.    South Georgia Technical College posted an 11.7% increase for Fall 2022...

SGTC Americus Criminal Justice Instructor Teresa McCook is shown above with one of her recent Criminal Justice graduates, John Phillip Welch. He earned his associate’s degree in Criminal Justice and received his diploma in the May 2023 SGTC 75th anniversary graduation ceremony. He was also a nominee for the SGTC GOAL competition.    South Georgia Technical College in Americus, GA, received a total of 77 awards from College Factual’s 2023 rankings which analyzed over 2,000 colleges and...

Seeing Double. South Georgia Technical College Aviation Maintenance Alumni Kip and Kolby McClelland are shown above in front of their business, Twin Aviation Repair, LLC in Douglas, GA.   Koby and Kip McClelland, twin brothers from Douglas, GA, graduated from the South Georgia Technical College Aviation Maintenance Technology program in August 2020. They were featured recently in “Flying Magazine” for their expertise in helping a retired American Airlines pilot, who experienced engine...

David CoxDavid Cox of Americus has been hired as a new full-time Diesel Equipment Technology instructor at South Georgia Technical College, announced South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford.  He will report to South Georgia Technical College Academic Dean David Finley and SGTC Vice President of Academic Affairs Julie Partain.  He is joining SGTC as a full-time instructor and will work with existing instructor Chase Shannon. Cox is a graduate of the South Georgia Technical...

South Georgia Technical College’s Jennifer Robinson (third from the left) is shown above with the items donated. Tawnya Hadley, Americus Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority, Inc. May Week Chair, along with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. members and SGTC Instructors Mary Cross and Brenda Boone brought the items to be donated to the pantry. Mary Cross is the SGTC Marketing Instructor on the Americus campus and Brenda Boone is the Americus campus Accounting Instructor.    ...

1990 South Georgia Tech aviation graduate Scott Schneider stands in front of the college’s World War II-era Navy Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune airplane during a recent visit to the SGTC campus. The memories flooded back to Scott Schneider when he recently returned to the South Georgia Technical College campus for the first time in 30 years. As he marveled at the changes to the facilities over the past three decades, he also found much that was familiar. When Schneider first came from Tampa, FL...

Pictured (l-r) are SGTC Dual Enrollment graduates Mitchell Turton of Southland Academy and Wyatt Morgan of Marion County High School.Two Dual Enrollment students at South Georgia Technical College recently graduated from SGTC even before they graduated from their high schools. Mitchell Turton of Southland Academy earned a diploma in Precision Machining and Manufacturing while Wyatt Morgan of Marion County High School completed the Diesel Equipment Technology Program to earn his...

Pictured (l-r) are SGTC Marketing instructor Mary Cross, SGTC CIS instructor Veronda Cladd, Kayla Bowens of Innovative Senior Solutions, and Harriet Glover of Belk.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 continuous quality...

Shown above with South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford are the seven Peyton Norris Thompson Tractor CAT students who were awarded the 2023 Fly High Goose - Adrian “Goose” Johnson tool scholarship. They are Kirk Alan League, Garrett Colton Wheeler, Cade Harper Tarver, Nathan Eli Ruha, Zachary Lloyd Peek, Matthew Keith Jackson, and Tobias Cole Austin.   Seven Thompson Tractor South Georgia Technical College Caterpillar “Think Big” Heavy Equipment Diesel Technology...

Pictured are members of the John Deere Agricultural Technology advisory committee (l-r) Bert Bagley, Dr. David Finley, Jason Kinzey, Wayne Peck, Robert Thompson, Aaron Vancil, Dan Iglima, Mike Williams, Curt Jackson, Lee Johnson, Diana Padron, Doug Eldridge, Jamar Boykin, Kaylee Lawrence, and Matthew Burks.The advisory committee for South Georgia Technical College’s John Deere Agricultural Technology program met recently on the SGTC campus in Americus. In the meeting, instructors Matthew...