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More than 230 middle school students from Taylor County and Furlow Charter School visited the Americus campus of South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) recently to learn about what a technical education looks like. Furlow brought 45 students to tour seven programs of the campus, and two days later, Taylor County brought 190 students to visit nine program areas. Each day, students unloaded from the school busses and were welcomed in Hicks Hall by David Kuipers, vice president of...

Kelsi Cannon, a practical nursing student from Ellaville, has been named as South Georgia Technical College’s Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner for 2019. She will represent the college in regional and state level competitions, in search of being named the statewide Student of the Year and the face of technical education in Georgia. The announcement came from South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) president Dr. John Watford during a luncheon on the college’s...

The South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets took two very important Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) conference wins over Central Georgia Technical College Saturday when the Jets came away with a narrow 77 – 74 victory over the Central Georgia Tech Titans and the Lady Jets rolled to a 70 – 56 win over the Lady Titans in the Hangar in Americus.    “This was a big win for our program,” said South Georgia Technical College Jets head coach Travis...

Ryder System, Inc. donated a 2014 Freightliner Sleeper Tractor to the South Georgia Technical College Foundation recently for the college to utilize in the training of students in its Diesel Equipment Technology program. “On behalf of the South Georgia Technical College Foundation and the students and faculty at South Georgia Tech, I would like to thank Ryder for this donation,” said SGTC President Dr. John Watford. “Having the ability to train our diesel equipment technology...

South Georgia Technical College Law Enforcement Academy Director Brett Murray was presented with a check from Synovus Bank in Americus recently after he was selected as the South Georgia Technical College Instructor of the Year for 2019. He will represent the college at a statewide competition in Atlanta against the other outstanding instructors in the Technical College System of Georgia    Synovus, formerly known as SB&T, has presented the outstanding Instructor of the Year...

SWAINSBORO, GA - The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets captured their 12th straight Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) conference win and remained in first place in the standings when they coasted to a 67 – 35 win over East Georgia State College in Swainsboro. The Jets were riding a five-game GCAA winning streak but fell four points short in a narrow 84 – 80 loss to the East Georgia Bobcats in the second half of the double-header. “We played terrible in the first...

South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, presented South Georgia Tech’s 2019 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year winner, Brett Murray, with a stipend from the South Georgia Technical College Foundation’s Sparky and Allen Reeves endowed fund at the college’s 2019 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year breakfast recently. Brett Murray, the Law Enforcement Academy Director at South Georgia Tech, was recognized as the Instructor of the Year by...

Andrea Ingram, South Georgia Technical College Computer Information Instructor on the Americus campus, wrote the following article for the Americus Times Recorder. It was published in the “New Year, New You!” Special Publication of the Americus Times Recorder printed in January 2019 and inserted into the January 30th edition of the newspaper. It details how to clean up your computer for the New Year! “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld...

Central Georgia Technical College President Dr. Ivan H. Allen will be the special guest speaker at the South Georgia Technical College African American History program in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center building on the Americus campus at 11 a.m. Wednesday, February 20th, 2019, announced South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford. Musician Leonard Tyson will perform with the South Georgia Technical College Gospel Choir at the event. The Sumter County Primary...

Jae Crowder was an All-American freshman at South Georgia Technical College in 2009. By Eric Woodyard @E_Woodyard Published: January 29, 2019 8:23 am DesertNews.com https://www.facebook.com/100000088027472/posts/2387441901268721/ SALT LAKE CITY — It was the summer of 2009, around June to be specific. Mostly grown men were on the court on this particular day at the Estero Recreation Center, right outside of Fort Myers, Florida. An 18-year-old Jae Crowder had just wrapped up an...

Instructor Brett Murray has been named the 2019 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year Award winner for South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) for his work as the director of the college’s law enforcement academy. SGTC president Dr. John Watford made the announcement at a recent breakfast which honored the eight finalists for the award. “A couple of weeks ago met before our interviews, and we all agreed … that it could have been anybody at the table. I still felt that way this...

The City of Perry and the Perry Police Department donated a 2013 Ford Interceptor Police Vehicle equipped with lights and sirens to the South Georgia Technical College Foundation to be utilized for skid car driver training for the South Georgia Technical College Law Enforcement Academy cadets. “We are grateful to the City of Perry and the Perry Police Department for their donation and for their support of the South Georgia Technical College Law Enforcement Academy,” said South Georgia...