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Susan Pittman from Brevard, North Carolina, is shown above providing professional development for the South Georgia Tech Adult Education and GED testing staff recently.   The South Georgia Technical College Adult Education and GED testing staff participated in a required professional development training recently with 19 full-time and part-time faculty and staff members, announced SGTC Dean of Adult Education Lillie Ann Winn.    Susan Pittman from Brevard, North Carolina, was the...

Patrick Owen    Patrick Owen of Americus has joined South Georgia Technical College as its new Industrial Systems Instructor, announced South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford.  He will report to SGTC Vice President of Academic Affairs David Kuipers.    Owen is a graduate of the South Georgia Technical College Industrial Electrical Technology program.  He also has an Associate Degree in Forestry from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford (second from right) is shown above in front of the South Georgia Tech booth with (l to r) Mike Cheokas from the Georgia House of Representatives District 138; Speaker of the House David Ralston from Georgia House of Representatives District 7; Georgia House of Representatives District 148 Legislator Noel Williams, Jr.; and Education Chairman Rick Jasperse from the Georgia House of Representatives District 11.   South Georgia Technical...

Dr. Donna M. Beegle, poverty expert, speaker, and author, will be conducting a free workshop on “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty,” at South Georgia Technical College on Tuesday, February 18th in the John M. Pope Center from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.   South Georgia Technical College will be hosting a FREE Professional Development Workshop featuring author, speaker and poverty expert Dr. Donna M. Beegle on Tuesday, February 18th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the John M. Pope Center on the Americus...

Americus Rotary Club Past President Don Smith (l) is shown above presenting a check to David Bush (r), who was selected as the SGTC 2020 GOAL student of the year.     Americus Rotary Club Past President Don Smith presented South Georgia Technical College Air Conditioning Technology student David Bush of Cuthbert with a stipend recently on behalf of the Americus Rotary Club after he was recognized as the college’s 2020 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner by SGTC...

South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves (l) and Allene (right) are shown above presenting a scholarship check to 2020 GOAL winner David Bush (c).     South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, presented Air Conditioning Technology student David Bush with a $500 scholarship after he had been recognized as the college’s 2020 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner by SGTC President Dr. John Watford at the...

SGTC President Dr. John Watford is shown above (l) presenting former GOAL Coordinator Cynthia Carter with a plaque for her 13 years of service to the SGTC GOAL program.   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...

SGTC 2020 GOAL winner David Bush is shown above with his Air Conditioning Technology instructor, Glynn Cobb. 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...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above (center left) thanking Georgia Power Executive Vice President Customer Service and Operations Pedro Cherry (center right). Shown (l to r) are: Georgia Power Human Resources Manager John Hood; Georgia Power Local Manager Don Porter, South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford, Georgia Power’s Pedro Cherry, Assistant to Executive Vice President Customer Service and Operations Rachel Williams and Georgia...

Air conditioning technology student David Bush (right) accepts the SGTC GOAL award from Dr. John Watford, SGTC President.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...

South Georgia Technical College Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey (r) is shown above with Terrie Battle, Athletic Coordinator for the Jets and Lady Jets (l) and SGTC’s Bobble Head ACE mascot. Bobble Head ACE is sporting the FREE t-shirt available to individuals at the Alumni/Sophomore Day event, while supplies last, on February 8th at SGTC. All alumni, students, faculty and staff, and retirees are urged to come out and enjoy the festivities.     South...

Synovus’ Tami Duke is shown above (left) presenting Dorothea Lusane McKenzie with a donation from Synovus for being selected as the South Georgia Technical College 2020 Instructor of the Year.    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...