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  Jasmine Mercer of Plains has been named Student Affairs Assistant at South Georgia Technical College, announced SGTC President Dr. John Watford recently. She will report to SGTC Director of Admissions Whitney Crisp and SGTC Vice President of Student Affairs, Institutional Support, and Technology Karen Werling. A graduate of South Georgia Tech’s Marketing Management program, Jasmine is excited about her new role. “I loved being a student at South Georgia Tech, and I’m honored to...

Jasmine Mercer has been named Student Affairs Assistant at SGTC.

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...

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 Marketing Management programs. SGTC Marketing Management Instructor Mary Cross provided the committee with updates and information about program changes, enrollment, community activities, and student news. The...

South 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, and financial aid...

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 campaign. Members of PBL who are in the Culinary Arts Program prepared fresh, homemade baked goods for the Pop-Up Bakery Shop. The goods ranged in price from 50 cents to $1. Members also had a drawing to win a chocolate cake and tickets were...

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 class went on five different tours of Georgia businesses. The overall purpose of each of the tours was to further explain and demonstrate the lectured material from the classroom. Students were given hands-on experience from the supply channels, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. The...

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,...

By 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 role in the...

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. The announcement was made during the Griffin B. Bell Convocation at South Georgia Technical College recently where Dan Linginfelter was the featured speaker. Dan Linginfelter is currently a senior airworthiness inspector for Gulfstream Aerospace. He was selected as the South Georgia Technical...

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 thank everyone for their support of this event. We had a great response from area high schools and the local community. I was very...

The South Georgia Technical College Jets Booster Club held a special Recognition and Awards Banquet recently in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the South Georgia Technical College campus to honor the members of the 2016-2017 Jets and Lady Jets players and coaches. Cory Black of CBHoops was the special guest speaker. South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford thanked the over 100 individuals who attended the banquet for their support of the college, its...