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Americus, GA – Approximately 200 John Deere officials from Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Alabama took part in the John Deere 2019 Division P Optimization Training event at South Georgia Technical College in Americus, GA recently. The training was held in South Georgia Tech’s Energy and Transportation Center in the John Deere Ag Tech classrooms and labs and in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center.   The two-day event was a training session for the parts, sales,...

Seven members of the South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets 2018 – 2019 basketball teams have earned Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Division I All-Academic Team honors, announced GCAA Executive Director David Elder.   All six of the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets sophomores were named to the All-Academic Team and sophomore Samuel Matice was selected to represent the Jets. South Georgia Technical College had the largest number of...

Kenneth Hair of Ellaville has been hired as a new full-time Commercial Truck Driving Instructor for the South Georgia Technical College Americus campus as well as the Crisp County Center effective immediately, announced South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford.   “Hair has nearly 30 years of experience in the Commercial Truck Driving field and has varied experience as a supervisor and as a short haul and long haul driver. We believe that he will be an asset...

  The Advancing Sumter Community Leadership Development Program will host a 2-day leadership workshop in Americus. The Saturday sessions will be held on March 23rd and March 30th from 9 am to 5 pm at the Georgia Southwestern State University Student Success Center.   The certificated two-day program uses the University of Georgia's Fanning Institute for Leadership Development curriculum.  Topics include:  Understanding Community Leadership, Effective Communication, Group Dynamics,...

Imagine, Invent, Inspire, – those three words explain the entire emphasis of the South Georgia Technical College STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Day efforts that involved more than 700 middle school students and teachers from Marion County, Schley County, Sumter County, and Southland Academy during the first of two huge STEM Day events this Spring on the South Georgia Technical College Americus campus.   “This was a great day,” said South Georgia...

The Georgia EMC Foremen and Supervisors’ Association presented a donation to the South Georgia Technical College Foundation recently to provide scholarships for the South Georgia Technical College Electrical Lineworker Apprenticeship Program. Terry Lewis of Colquitt EMC and President of the Georgia EMC Foremen and Supervisors’ Association contacted the SGTC Foundation on behalf of the organization. “The South Georgia Technical College Electrical Lineworker Apprentice Program...

South Georgia Technical College officials traveled to Atlanta to participate in the Crisp County 31st annual Atlanta Legislative Fish Fry at the Georgia Freight Deport in Atlanta recently. The fish fry is sponsored by the Cordele City Commission, the Crisp County Board of Commissioners, the Crisp County Power Commission, the Cordele-Crisp County Chamber of Commerce and the Cordele-Crisp County Fish Fry cooking team.   Crisp County community leaders and officials traveled to...

The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets rolled to an impressive 100 – 51 victory over the Spartanburg Methodist Lady Pioneers from Spartanburg, S.C., in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I District J Championship game in Americus, Saturday, to earn a spot in the NJCAA Division I National Tournament for the third consecutive time and fifth time in six years.   “This was a good win obviously,” said South Georgia Technical College...

South Georgia Technical College is offering day, evening, and online eight week classes beginning March 11 on both the Americus and Crisp County Center campuses. The eight-week classes are part of the Spring Semester C-term which begins March 11 and ends May 2. C-term classes serve as an option for students who want to catch up or get ahead in their coursework. The classes, which are often fast-paced, allow students to earn an entire 16-weeks’ worth of credit in half the time. C-Term...

The third ranked South Georgia Technical College Jets’ 2018 – 2019 basketball season came to halt Tuesday night in the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Region XVII tournament when sixth ranked East Georgia College staged a 93 – 82 upset win to advance to the semi-final round at Andrew College in Cuthbert on Friday, March 8th at 5:30 p.m. The Bobcats will match-up against Central Georgia Tech.   “We didn’t play well,” said South...

Two members of the nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets were selected to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XVII All-Tournament team for post season play after the Lady Jets captured their third consecutive NJCAA Region XVII title recently.  Jets freshman Justin Johnson also was tapped by the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) as a member of Division I men’s first team 2018-2019 All-Conference squad and was recognized as...

The South Georgia Technical College Jets came out strong in their last Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) 2018 – 2019 regular season game Saturday and defeated East Georgia State College, 88 – 66. The win allowed the Jets to finish the GCAA season in 3rd place and earn the right to host a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XVII tournament quarterfinal game on Tuesday, March 6th. The Jets will play East Georgia again in the Hangar at 7 p.m. ...