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South Georgia Technical College’s Americus PBL chapter earned six national chapter and individual awards at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) National Leadership Conference (NLC) in San Antonio, Texas recently. The six awards and recognitions earn by the Americus PBL Chapter included: being named Outstanding Chapter, Gold Seal Chapter, March of Dimes Grant - $1000, an IFL Scholarship for Heather Hinton, eighth place in the Community Service Project and 10th place for local chapter annual...

Six South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) students earned the right to compete in the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, KY recently and each of the students advanced to the final rounds of their respective competitions. In order to advance to the SkillsUSA Nationals, the South Georgia Technical College students had to finish first in the Georgia competition.    The students who advanced to the SkillsUSA National competition included: Ethan Lyle in...

South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center’s Business Technology student, Kennedy Allen of Vienna, captured first place in the Computer Applications competition at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) National Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Texas recently.    Allen along with two other Business Technology student’s, Allysia Oliver of Vienna, and Christopher Mathews of Vienna, earned the right to represent the South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center...

  South Georgia Technical College hosted a blood drive through the American Red Cross recently. The blood drive was held in Hicks Hall on the Americus campus and all eligible donors were encouraged to participate.    The blood drive resulted in registering 29 total donors. A total of 24 pints of blood were given and there were nine first time blood donors.    By taking a moment from your day to donate, individuals may be giving someone else a chance at life. A single...

South Georgia Technical College’s Adult Education department hosted its advisory committee meeting recently in the John M. Pope Center on the Americus campus with representatives from each of the seven county areas served by South Georgia Technical College’s GED programs.    South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford and SGTC Adult Education Dean Lillie Ann Winn welcomed the advisory committee members, instructors, and guests to the meeting. Winn also talked...

   South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford recently announced the college’s President’s List for the spring semester, which included 117 students from around the area and across the Southeast. To be eligible for the President’s List, a student must be enrolled full time (12 or more credit hours) in an associate degree or diploma program and have a 4.0 GPA for that semester’s coursework. Those students who qualified included: Crisp County: Nicholas...

South Georgia Technical College officials were on hand to celebrate the Sumter County Board of Education’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new Sumter County High School that will be constructed on South Georgia Technical College Parkway across from South Georgia Technical College.    Several hundred community members, Sumter County School Board of Education Members, Ignite College and Career Academy Board members and supporters, as well as high school faculty, staff, and...

South Georgia Technical College’s culinary arts students recently set up a pop-up restaurant in the college’s Hicks Hall “Landings” Restaurant and served Southern Cuisine to SGTC faculty and staff as part of their hands-on curriculum. This is the last pop-up restaurant in the series.    The menu consisted of southern pasta salad, potato salad, fried or baked chicken, BBQ sandwich, ribs, baked beans, collards, corn confetti, sour cream pound cake, BTS cake, cornbread,...

Shown above are a group of the SGTC culinary arts students with Chef “Ricky” Watzlowick getting ready for the restaurant project.

South Georgia Technical College Registrar Eulish Kinchens of Americus has been named Vice President of Student Affairs and Academic Dean Vanessa Wall of Ellaville will now serve as the Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs in charge of campus security, student activities, and on-campus housing. The new assignments are due to a reorganization of administrative responsibilities among South Georgia Technical College senior staff and Presidential cabinet members, announced South...

Eulish Kinchens named Vice President of Student Affairs and Vanessa Wall named Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs with duties over Campus Security, On-Campus Housing and Student Activities at South Georgia Technical College.

South Georgia Technical College will be hosting a FREE summer STEM camps for middle school students July 16th – 18th at the college at 900 South Georgia Tech Parkway, Americus, GA 31709. Space is limited and admission will be awarded on a first come – first sign up basis.    For more information about the camp, contact Nancy Fitzgerald at nfitzgerald@southgatech.edu or call 229-931-2508. Students can sign up for the camp now on the SGTC Facebook Page under events or click...