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BUENA VISTA, GA - South Georgia Technical College and the Marion County School System offered college classes in Buena Vista fall semester and now officials are hoping to expand those course offerings in January for SGTC’s Spring Semester. Individuals who are interested in taking college introductory classes in Buena Vista beginning in January are encouraged to fill out an on-line survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XR7BWS2. This will give Marion County and South Georgia...

  Pictured from left to right are Crisp County Center PBL members Lisa Ray, Christian Powell, D.W. Persall, and Mykaula Harvey in Stone Mountain at the recent Georgia Fall Leadership Conference. South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) chapters recently participated in competitive events at the Georgia Fall Leadership in Stone Mountain and earned two first place awards, one second place award, and one fourth place award. Both the Americus campus chapter of PBL and...

The Kyle Glenn Holcombe Memorial Scholarship was presented to South Georgia Technical College Electrical Lineworker students Antonio B. Thornton and Hunter O’Neal recently. Hunter O’Neal is the son of Anita and Jeff O’Neal of Buena Vista and Antonio Thornton is the son of Gloria Hall of Buena Vista. The Kyle Glenn Holcombe Memorial Scholarship fund was established and endowed by Georgia Transmission and Aubrey Silvey Enterprises in memory of Kyle Glenn Holcombe, a 23-year old...

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...