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   South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford presented SGTC Career Services Director Cynthia Carter with a plaque for her 13 years of service as the South Georgia Technical College GOAL Coordinator during the college’s 2020 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership breakfast.    David Bush, a first year Air Conditioning Technology student, was selected as the college’s 2020 GOAL winner and will represent South Georgia Technical College at the regional and state...

https://www.wrbl.com/news/south-georgia-technical-college-in-americus-announces-2020-goal-award-recipient/ by: Keldreck Conwell, WRBL Americus,Ga (WRBL)- A South Georgia Technical College student is a finalist for the state’s Technical College Student of the Year award. First-year student David Bush is from Cuthbert, Georgia, but attends SGTC in Americus where he studies air conditioning technology. SGTC President Dr. John Watford recently announced Bush as this year’s...

Georgia Power Executive Vice President of Customer Service and Operations Pedro Cherry presented South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford and the South Georgia Technical College Foundation with a $12,500 donation for student scholarships for the college’s Electrical Lineworker program recently. Cherry, along with Rachel Williams, assistant to executive vice president of Customer Service and Operations; Georgia Power Human Resources Manager  John Hood; Georgia...

David Bush, an air conditioning technology student from Cuthbert, has been named as South Georgia Technical College’s Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner for 2020. He will represent the college in regional and state level competitions, in an effort to be declared the statewide Student of the Year and the face of technical education in Georgia. South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) President, Dr. John Watford, made the announcement during a recent breakfast on the...

     South Georgia Technical College will be hosting an Alumni Day Celebration on Saturday, February 8th in the James S. Peters gymnasium in conjunction with the Jets and Lady Jets basketball games and Sophomore Day recognition.  Students, faculty and staff, retirees and alumni will be admitted to the games for free.    All South Georgia Technical College alumni and former faculty and staff members are encouraged to come out and join in the celebration.  The 2019 – 2020 Jets and Lady...

   Six colleges were shuffled around in the top 15 spots within the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) women’s basketball national rankings this week but the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets remained in the 16th position for the fourth consecutive week.     The Lady Jets are 23 – 2 overall and 13 - 0 in the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association, but they can’t seem to get any higher than 16th nationally.  The Lady Jets were ranked 24th in the pre-season...

   South Georgia Technical College Cosmetology Instructor Dorothea Lusane McKenzie was presented with a check from Synovus Bank in Americus recently after she was selected as the South Georgia Technical College Instructor of the Year for 2020.  She will represent the college at a statewide competition in Atlanta against the other outstanding instructors in the Technical College System of Georgia.     Synovus, formerly known as SB&T, has presented the outstanding Instructor of the Year...

     South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, presented South Georgia Tech’s 2020 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year winner, Dorothea Lusane McKenzie, with a stipend from the South Georgia Technical College Foundation’s Sparky and Allen Reeves endowed fund at the college’s 2020 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year breakfast recently.    Dorothea Lusane McKenzie, Cosmetology Instructor at South Georgia Tech, was recognized as...

   It was Super Saturday at South Georgia Technical College when the Jets and the Lady Jets took impressive Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) victories over the East Georgia State College Bobcats and Lady Bobcats Saturday.     The nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets defeated the East Georgia Lady Bobcats 83 – 53 in the opening game to secure their seventh consecutive victory and move to 13 – 0 in the conference and 23 – 2 overall.  The East...

South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) recently held a study skills workshop for students on the Americus campus. Dr. Deo Cochran-Sherrod, SGTC Retention and Coaching Specialist, conducted the workshop and presented strategies for studying and retaining information for tests. Cochran-Sherrod shared with students her POP (Prepare, Organize, Practice) plan for studying. The “Prepare” component involves determining aspects of the test including what material will be covered and how the...

South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) recently completed a series of workshops on various aspects of wellness for students at the Crisp County Center in Cordele. Entitled “Welcome Back Wellness Week”, the program explored strategies for mental, physical, and financial wellness. The first session focused on health and nutrition wellness. SGTC LPN and Medical Assisting students provided blood pressure and BMI checks and gave information on diabetes, high blood pressure, the benefits of...

   South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford, his wife, Barbara; their son, Mark; and Dr. Lettie Watford, will be honored by Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) as some of its most “outstanding alumni.”     Dr. John Watford, his sister, Dr. Lettie Watford, and Barbara and Mark Watford are all graduates of Georgia Southwestern State University and will be honored as the GSW Family Legacy Award recipients on Saturday, February 22nd during GSW’s annual...