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South Georgia Technical College will be hosting Emmy Award Winner Steve Spangler for a FREE Back to School Event on Tuesday, August 13th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the South Georgia Technical College James S. Peters gymnasium. The public is invited to attend.     Steve Spangler is a science celebrity educator who has appeared on the Ellen Show. Steve enjoys the science of creating amazing experiences that inspire children to wonder, discover, and explore. During his...

South Georgia Technical College just completed its fifth consecutive year of enrollment growth and its sixth consecutive year of earning marks as the most efficient college in the Technical College System of Georgia based on enrollment, retention, and graduation ratios.    “This is a tremendous accomplishment and I would like to thank the entire South Georgia Technical College faculty and staff for their hard work in helping to increase our enrollment this past year and for the...

South Georgia Technical College will be hosting a Fall Semester Registration/Preview Day on both the Americus and Crisp County Center campuses on Wednesday, July 17th, 2019. Students who apply and register for Fall Semester on July 17th will have their $25 application free waived and receive a free t-shirt with the new slogan, “We are Impacting Student Success at SGTC,” while supplies last. Refreshments will also be provided. Parents are welcome to attend.    Students...

Smart and Talented! Those two words describe the South Georgia Technical College 2018 – 2019 Lady Jets Division I intercollegiate basketball team. The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) 2018 -2019 Academic Teams of the Year were just released and the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets were ranked 7th in the nation in Division I women’s basketball for their academic performance with an overall grade point average of 3.61 on a 4.0 scale.    “What an...

South Georgia Technical College’s Americus PBL chapter earned six national chapter and individual awards at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) National Leadership Conference (NLC) in San Antonio, Texas recently. The six awards and recognitions earn by the Americus PBL Chapter included: being named Outstanding Chapter, Gold Seal Chapter, March of Dimes Grant - $1000, an IFL Scholarship for Heather Hinton, eighth place in the Community Service Project and 10th place for local chapter annual...

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 first in the Georgia competition.    The students who advanced to the SkillsUSA National competition included: Ethan Lyle in...

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 the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) National Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Texas recently.    Allen along with two other Business Technology student’s, Allysia Oliver of Vienna, and Christopher Mathews of Vienna, earned the right to represent the South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center...

  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 donors. A total of 24 pints of blood were given and there were nine first time blood donors.    By taking a moment from your day to donate, individuals may be giving someone else a chance at life. A single...

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 programs.    South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford and SGTC Adult Education Dean Lillie Ann Winn welcomed the advisory committee members, instructors, and guests to the meeting. Winn also talked...

   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...

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 members, Sumter County School Board of Education Members, Ignite College and Career Academy Board members and supporters, as well as high school faculty, staff, and...

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 salad, fried or baked chicken, BBQ sandwich, ribs, baked beans, collards, corn confetti, sour cream pound cake, BTS cake, cornbread,...