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South Georgia Technical College will offer Firefighter I evening classes summer semester 2017. The classes will meet June 1st through August 1st on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 6pm-9pm. The courses are taught by active-duty, veteran firefighters. Anyone who wishes to be a firefighter, either paid or volunteer, will benefit from the Firefighter I Technical Certificate of Credit (TCC). Once the program, which consists of four classes that can all be taken summer semester, is...

From left to right, SGTC Marketing Management advisory committee members Dr. Andrea Oates, April Hilliard, Kara Dunn, Andrea Tatum, Jasmine Mercer, Whitney Kimbrough, Harriet Glover, Robert Harvey and Mary Cross. The South Georgia Technical College Marketing Management advisory committee met recently in the Odom Center on the SGTC Americus Campus. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Technical College faculty and staff in continuous quality improvement of the...

Filling out FAFSA papersSouth Georgia Technical College will hold a Financial Aid Frenzy workshop on both campuses that will be open to all students. This workshop will take place Monday, April 24th from 9am-3pm in the Odom Center Testing Lab on the Americus Campus and Room A3 at the Crisp County Center. This workshop will allow students to receive help with filling out FAFSA and other paperwork to apply for federal student aid for the upcoming 2017-2018 year. Refreshments will be served,...

PBL members (from left to right) Jaleun Willis, Racarda Blackmon, and Ashley Halstead are pictured with PBL Advisor Dr. Andrea Oates (far right) at the Pop-Up Bakery Shop that PBL organized to help raise funds for March of Dimes. South Georgia Technical College’s Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) members recently hosted a series of fundraisers to benefit their national charity, the March of Dimes. The fundraisers included a Pop-Up Bakery Shop, a drawing for a chocolate cake, and a giving...

SGTC’s Marketing Management class is pictured on their visit to Eaton Lighting with instructor Mary Cross (second from left), SGTC Director of Business and Industry Services Paul Farr (far left), SGTC Vice President for Economic Development Wally Summers (far right), and Eaton officials. South Georgia Technical College’s Marketing Management class of the Americus campus took tours of different places in Georgia over spring semester. SGTC Marketing Management instructor Mary Cross’s...

South Georgia Technical College recently opened a GED (General Equivalency Diploma) lab in the McLain Center on the Americus campus. Upcoming testing dates are now available and can also be viewed at GED.com. New testing dates and locations include: April 20 – SGTC Crisp County Center Campus, 8:30-4:00 April 25 – SGTC McLain Center, 8:30-5:00 May 2 – SGTC McLain Center, 8:30-3:30 May 4 – SGTC Crisp County Center Campus, 8:30-4:00 May 6 – Saturday Testing McLain Center,...

Kanna SuzukiBy Ed Odeven The South Georgia Technical College women’s basketball team has quietly built a stellar program in recent years. With a vision and purposeful planning, coach James Frey, in his fifth season at the helm, and his staff have recruited smartly and found players, from near and far, including Japan, who fit in well with the Lady Jets’ style of play and overall goals. Freshman point guard Kanna Suzuki, who hails from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, played a pivotal...

South Georgia Technical College Foundation Executive Director Su Ann Bird and South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford are shown above (l to r) with Dan Linginfelter, Sandy and Hank Linginfelter and Matt Linginfelter. Hank and Matt were both at the convocation to support their brother.A new aviation maintenance scholarship was endowed in honor of South Georgia Technical College 1979 Aviation Maintenance graduate Dan Linginfelter by Hank and Sandy Linginfelter of Atlanta. ...

South Georgia Tech’s cosmetology instructor Dorothea McKenzie and her students are shown posing in a frame at the Cosmetology booth.Over 600 individuals participated in South Georgia Technical College’s Spring Take-Off and Program Preview event in the James S. Peters Gymnasium (The Hangar) on the Americus campus and on the SGTC Crisp County Center campus in Cordele. “This was a tremendous event,” said South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford. “I would like to...

On the front row from left to right are SkillsUSA advisors Charles Christmas and Dr. Michele Seay, SkillsUSA competitors Destiny Baker, Rachael Johnson, and Kaitlyn Carpenter, and SkillsUSA Advisor Cynthia Carter. On the back row from left to right are SGTC President Dr. John Watford and SkillsUSA competitors Stephen Simmons, Brennan Morris, William Manning, and Nathan Prince. Not pictured are Annie Streeter, Josiah Copeland, Stephaine Tyson, and Bailey Mills. South Georgia Technical College...

Michael Karnes (far right) is pictured with Vice President for Academic Affairs David Kuipers and his nominating instructor Andrea Ingram and the Student of Excellence banner that will hang in the Computer Information Systems program area until the next Student of Excellence is named. Seated from left to right are Student of Excellence nominees Erika Baily, Mackenzie Smith, Michael Karnes, MarQuellis Watts, and Derrick Trawick. Standing, from left to right, are nominating instructors Brenda...

Shown above seated (right to left) are SGTC President John Watford with the 2017 Griffin Bell Convocation featured speaker Dan Linginfelter, along with Griffin Bell, III and Mrs. Nancy Kinnebrew Bell, wife of the late Judge Griffin B. Bell. Shown on the back row are Hulme Kinnebrew, Matt Linginfelter, brother of Dan Linginfelter; Margaret Bell, daughter of Griffin Bell, III; Sandy and Hank Linginfelter, and SGTC Foundation Executive Director Su Ann Bird.Dan Linginfelter, Senior...