School News

Shown above (l to r) are the 2016 – 2017 Lady Jets: SGTC Athletic Director and Lady Jets Head Coach James Frey, Shaineequah Fluellyn, Davesha Murray, Camille Coleman, Madison Cameron, Houlfat Mahouchiza, Esther Adenike, Desiree Corbin, Sceret Ethridge, La’Deja James, Trakyra Kidd, Marina Balaguer, Kanna Suzuki and Assistant Coach Kezia Conyers.Five international women’s basketball players will be donning South Georgia Technical College’s red, white, and black, uniforms for the...

  South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) Career Services Department will host a Job Fair on the SGTC Americus campus in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on Tuesday, November 1 from 1pm-6pm. Over 20 area employers will be on site to talk to job seekers about career opportunities. Cynthia Carter, SGTC Director of Career Services, has been organizing the event, and SGTC students as well as any job seekers in the area are encouraged to attend. Businesses who will participate...

The South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets basketball teams took on some tough opponents in pre-season match-ups over the weekend and struggled slightly in preparation for the real 2016-2017 season opening at home on Tuesday, November 1st. The Lady Jets hosted Columbus State University in the Hangar on the Americus campus and dropped a 72 – 55 decision. The Jets did better with a 2 – 1 record at the CB Hoops JUCO Jamboree in Cartersville. They won against USC...

Americus – South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford has announced that Cynthia Carter, the Director of Career Services at the college, will coordinate the 2017 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) program. Earlier this year, Carter advised Ashley Rodgers of Oglethorpe, a Marketing Management student, toward a state GOAL win. As the GOAL winner for Georgia, Rodgers was presented a new car by Kia Motors and has been traveling the state advocating technical...

  South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) students in Brenda Gilliam’s Welding and Joining Technology class on the college’s Crisp County Center recently welded a Halloween display for the Veterans State Park in Cordele Scarecrow Strut Halloween contest. The display features Frankenstein’s monster as a welder, a ghost, a black cat, bats, pumpkins, and other Halloween-themed welded works of art. Some of the decorations were created using templates, but others were drawn and cut by...

  Eleven South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) students recently took a trip to the Georgia National Fair in Perry. The activity was sponsored by SGTC’s Student Government Association (SGA) and is one of the many student activities sponsored by the organization annually. SGA Advisors Paul Farr and Dr. Michele Seay accompanied the students. The SGTC students who went to the Georgia National Fair included Kimberly Baker of Americus, Arthur Brown of Americus, LaSandra Burton of Americus,...

A South Georgia Technical College licensed practical nursing graduate, Shirley M. Kisor, who went on to complete her RN degree at Georgia Southwestern State University, was recognized recently as a member of the prestigious International Nurses Association organization and will be spotlighted in their upcoming publication “Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare.” Shirley McNiel Kisor of Preston is working as a registered nurse with Advance MED and the Aureus Group in the Columbus, Georgia...

AMERICUS, GA (WALB) - South Georgia Technical College is being recognized as a leader in adult education. The Technical College System of Georgia honored the school for the second year in a row for having the highest percentage of students transition to credited programs after earning GEDs. School leaders said the program's reputation is attracting students. "We have a student that's actually enrolled in the program now," Assistant Vice President for Adult Education Lashondra Coleman...

The South Georgia Technical College Board of Directors was recognized as a fully certified board at the Technical College Directors Association and the Technical College Foundation Association annual Leadership conference in Savannah recently. All seven members of the South Georgia Technical College Board of Directors have completed individual board member certification training and are fully certified board members. The seven-member board is made up of community leaders representing...

  South Georgia Technical College’s Accounting, Business Technology, and Marketing Management advisory committee recently held an advisory meeting on SGTC’s Crisp County Center campus in the boardroom. Members of SGTC’s Accounting, Business Technology, and Marketing Management advisory committee met with Accounting instructor Sara Benson, Business Technology instructor Teresa Jolly, and Marketing Management instructor Karen Bloodworth.  The members reviewed all aspects of the...

The South Georgia Technical Recreation and Leisure Management advisory committee met recently in the James S. Peters Gymnasium hospitality suite on the SGTC Americus campus. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff in continuous quality improvement of the Recreation and Leisure Management program. SGTC Recreation and Leisure Management instructors James Frey and Travis Garrett provided the committee with updates and information about program...

  South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) President Dr. John Watford announced the college’s summer semester President’s List recently, which included 36 students. In order to qualify for the President’s List, a student must be enrolled in a degree or diploma program and have a 4.0 GPA for that semester’s coursework. Those students who qualified included: Chatham County: Troy L. Jandura ofTybee Island, Heavy Equipment Dealers Service Technology. Crisp County: Patricia E. Bellamy...