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Name: Shermel McCluster High School: Americus Sumter High School South Campus MOWR Program: Criminal Justice Technology (Associate’s Degree) Advisor: Teresa McCook Total MOWR savings: $6,496 Shermel has taken full advantage of her opportunities with the Move On When Ready program at South Georgia Technical College, securing an internship with the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office in Americus and soaring to the top of her class. Her advisor, Teresa McCook, nominated her for the Student...

Americus, GA - High school students from across the Southeastern United States attended South Georgia Technical College’s John Deere Agricultural Technology Open House held recently in the college’s John Deere Ag Technology lab and classrooms. The event was sponsored by South Georgia Technical College and John Deere. John Deere officials and dealers invited prospective students and their parents as well as high school guidance counselors, and agriculture teachers from their service...

The Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s 2017 regular season champion South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets moved up to 16th place in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I women’s basketball final Top 25 poll released February 28th. South Georgia Tech was in the 20th place spot last week and is still the only Georgia women’s team included in the NJCAA Division I national rankings. This is their highest ranking this season nationally. The Lady Jets...

The top ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets captured an impressive 76 – 43 victory over the eighth place Albany Technical College Lady Titans Tuesday in the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Region XVII Division I women’s basketball tournament. As the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) regular season champions, the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets earned the right to host the first round of the NJCAA Region XVII tournament...

Lou Crouch of Bryon endowed a new South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Law Enforcement Academy scholarship in memory of Peach County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Patrick Sondron and Daryl Smallwood. The two deputies died in the line of duty in November 2016. The first SGTC Sondron-Smallwood Law Enforcement Scholarship will be awarded at the South Georgia Technical College Law Enforcement Academy graduation in May 2017. This is the third scholarship that Crouch has endowed for the Law...

South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets head basketball coach James Frey was selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Division I Co-Coach of the Year for the 2016 – 2017 season. This was his third time earning the Coach of the Year honors in the past four seasons and his third GCAA regular season Conference Championship in as many years. He has led his team to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I women’s national tournament twice in his five...

South Georgia Technical College’s Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) chapter of the Americus campus recently hosted a Leadership Day with Webster County Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) students. “One of the goals of the chapter was to increase FBLA interaction,” stated Academic Dean and PBL Advisor Dr. Andrea Oates. PBL officers and members elected to host a Leadership Day where they facilitated leadership skills by focusing on personal awareness, communication, and teamwork. Some of the...

South Georgia Technical College recently held a workshop focusing on ideas for erasing student anxiety. Dr. Michelle Seay, SGTC Psychology Instructor, was the guest speaker for the workshop, which was coordinated by Deo Cochran, SGTC Retention and Coaching Specialist. Dr. Seay gave the students in attendance a few tips and tricks to minimize and relieve stress. A few of the ideas mentioned were to regroup and gather yourself and your thoughts, have a strong support system, and do activities...

Albany, GA - The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets clinched their second consecutive Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) regular season conference title recently with a 56 – 42 victory over the Albany Tech Lady Titans in Albany. The Jets also moved up with 90 – 84 win in the double-header. The Lady Jets are now 24 – 4 overall and 13 – 1 in the conference. The Jets moved to 3 – 11 and 9 – 19 overall. “With the amount of adversity these young ladies have had...

  Eshonda Blue, CEO and Co-Owner of Innovative Senior Solutions, will be the keynote speaker for this year’s African American History program at South Georgia Technical College. The program will be held on Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 11:00am in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on SGTC’s Americus campus, and the public is invited to attend. Blue founded Innovative Senior Solutions (ISS) with her sister, Jessica Wright, in 2007. The two sisters started their business in...

Seated from left to right are Student of Excellence nominees Tiana Reese, Rachael Johnson, Shermel McCluster, Kyle Biggs, Janiyah Johnson, Stefanie Turner, and Summer Driver. Standing, from left to right, are SGTC Academic Deans Vanessa Wall and Dr. Andrea Oates, nominating instructors Xavier Jackson, Dorothea Lusane-McKenzie, Teresa McCook, Ricky Watzlowick, Jaye Cripe, Diana Skipper, Jennifer Childs, and Academic Dean Dr. David Finley. Janiyah Johnson of Stockbridge, a South Georgia...

  Name: Kristoria Wilson High School: Americus Sumter High School South Campus MOWR Program: Criminal Justice Technology (Associate’s Degree) Advisor: Teresa McCook Total MOWR savings: $5,963 Kristoria’s advisor, Teresa McCook, helped her find an internship opportunity at the local District Attorney’s office, where she enjoys working with attorneys and investigators on different cases. She also enjoys being able to tell other students about the Move On When Ready program and the...