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Lady Jets sophomores Niya Goudelock, 3, and Yasriyyah Wazeerud-Din, 13, named to the NJCAA Region XVII All-Tournament team. Goudelock was the MVP for the tournament.     South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets sophomore transfer Niya Goudelock helped lead her teammates to an impressive come from behind 69 – 63 victory over the second ranked Georgia Highlands Lady Chargers in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Region XVII tournament recently.      Her outstanding play...

Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association Commissioner David Elder is shown above making the presentation to retired College of Coastal Georgia Athletic Director and men’s basketball coach Gerald Cox, Lady Jets head coach James Frey and Coach Cox’s son.   Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association Commissioner David Elder and South Georgia Technical College Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey presented College of Coastal Georgia former basketball head coach and Director of...

SGTC PBL students are shown above with their awards following the PBL District competition.Macon, GA – Five South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) students represented the SGTC Crisp County PBL Chapter at District Competition at Central Georgia Technical College in Macon recently and took top honors.    Kennedy Mathews of Vienna, Samantha Campbell of Cordele, Hannah Weaver of Rochelle, Christina Jordan of Fitzgerald, and Nacoria Dawson of Cordele...

TECC logoSouth Georgia Technical College will host a Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course March 13-14 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the college’s Crisp County Center in Cordele. The program is based on the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and teaches civilian tactical EMS to aid any EMS called to respond to a mass casualty or active shooter event. Upon successful completion of the course, students will receive NAEMT TECC Course Completion Certificates and...

Pictured are members of the SGTC advisory committee for accounting and business technology: Dr. Andrea Oates, SGTC Academic Dean; April Hilliard, SGTC Academic Affairs Administrative Assistant; Willette Smith, Macon State Prison; Deatrice Harris, Sumter YDC; Brenda Boone, SGTC Accounting instructor; and Jamie Campbell, Wells Fargo Bank.South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) Accounting and Business Technology advisory committee met recently in the Odom Center Conference Room on the...

SGTC Admission Coordinator Katrice Taylor is shown above with SGTC’s Brandy Nipper, Wanda Bishop and Brad Harnum at the Crisp County Learning Center Career Awareness Day.   South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Admissions Coordinator Katrice Taylor joined instructors Brandy Nipper, Wanda Bishop and Brad Harnum in participating in the Crisp County Learning Center’s Career Awareness Day.    The event was sponsored by the Crisp County Industrial Development Council.  Katrice...

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy, Col. Eric Bryant, speaks at the recent SGTC African American History Program.Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy, Col. Eric Bryant, was the featured speaker at South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) annual African American History Program. The event took place before a large audience in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on SGTC’s Americus campus. “We make history every day,” Bryant said in his remarks. “As we...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above with Taylor County CTAE Director Michele Kimble.     Approximately 100 Taylor County High School CTAE students, instructors and administrators attended the South Georgia Technical College Phi Beta Lambda Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education Day at South Georgia Technical College recently.    South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford was the special guest speaker at the event.   The students...

The Reverend Keith Lewis is the guest speaker for the SGTC Crisp County Center African American History program.South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) will host an African American History program at the Crisp County Center in Cordele on Thursday, February 27, at 10:30 am. Reverend Keith Lewis will serve as the featured speaker. The program will start with introductory remarks from SGTC Dean of Enrollment Management Julie Partain. Members of the SGTC chapter of the National Technical Honor...

Julie Partain, South Georgia Technical College’s Dean of Enrollment Management for the Crisp County Center is shown above (l to r) receiving the Melvin Jones Fellow Plaque from Cordele Lions’ Club President Willie Mae Dexter. Photo by Gabe Jordan, Cordele Dispatch.    South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center’s Dean of Enrollment Management Julie Partain was recognized as a Melvin Jones Fellow by the Cordele Lions’ Club recently during the club’s weekly meeting.   ...

Dr. Donna Beegle educates the audience on how to “Break the Cycle of Poverty” during a recent workshop on the SGTC Americus campus.South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) recently held a professional development workshop for educators, community leaders, and students entitled “Break the Cycle of Poverty”.  The workshop was conducted by Dr. Donna M. Beegle, an expert on poverty and strategies to combat it. The event was presented free to the community and paid for through a federal...

Dr. Deborah Jones, SGTC Assistant Vice President of Student Navigation, teaches time-management strategies to students in a recent workshop.In a recent workshop for students at South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) in Americus, students learned strategies for managing their time in order to be successful in school, on the job, and at life in general. Dr. Deborah Jones, SGTC Assistant Vice President of Student Navigation, presented the workshop in the Hicks Hall Life Lab on the Americus...