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Holly Free-Ollard, Apprenticeship Manager for the Technical College System of Georgia Office of Workforce Development, partnered with South Georgia Technical College to host an Apprenticeships Industry meeting at the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the SGTC Americus campus recently.    Business and Industry leaders and representatives from the counties served by South Georgia Technical College attended the meeting to learn more about the benefits of apprenticeships....

South Georgia Technical College’s culinary arts students set up a pop-up restaurant in the college’s Hicks Hall “Landings” Restaurant and served Jamaican Cuisine to SGTC faculty and staff as part of their hands-on curriculum.    The menu consisted of a house salad, tangy Jamaican coleslaw, Jamaican jerk chicken, Caribbean boneless pork chop, Jamaican cabbage, Caribbean confetti rice, Trinidad macaroni pie, banana cake with cream cheese frosting, pineapple upside-down...

South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center’s Electrical System Technology instructor Mike Enfinger was nominated for and received the Golden Apple Award from the Crisp County School System. Jordan Gilliam of Cordele, a dual enrollment student in the Electrical System Technology program at South Georgia Tech, was the nominating student.    Crisp County High School’s high academic achieving graduates are allowed to award a Golden Apple to a current or former...

South Georgia Technical College has finished the first day of a FREE three-day STEM camp for high school students in grades 9 through 12 at the Crisp County Center on North Midway Road. Students can still sign up for day two and three by contacting Nancy Fitzgerald at nfitzgerald@southgatech.edu or 229-931-2508.    Students participated in a Pringle challenge using engineering skills to build a tower from Pringle chips. They also visited the South Georgia Technical College...

Heidi Goodman of RESA joined Nancy Fitzgerald from South Georgia Tech and Jenna Rhodes of RESA in helping students construct a Pringle Tower.

Barry Cason of Leesburg took first place in the Best in Show New from 1994 – Present Car category as well as first place in the Best Paint Job category with his 2016 Ford Mustang GT at the South Georgia Technical College’s inaugural Father’s Day Car Show recently. Thirty-five cars were on display in front of the SGTC cafeteria near South Georgia Tech Parkway. Admission was free and lunch was provided to participants and on-lookers.    Alexander Hall of Albany was the...

Cordele, GA – South Georgia Technical College hosted the Technical College System of Georgia Behavioral Intervention Team and Clery Team Chairs Leadership Symposium on the college’s Crisp County Center campus on North Midway Road in Cordele, GA recently.    South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford welcomed the individuals from across the state to the South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center campus. He stressed the importance of safety on all college...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford was the guest speaker at the Cordele Rotary Club recently and shared with members some of the outstanding accomplishments of South Georgia Technical College and the Crisp County Center campus. He also talked about the purpose of technical education and how it might differ from a four-year university.    “Right now, the average student loan debt of students graduating from a four-year university is over $37,000. It is...

Robert Watzlowick of Leesburg and Thomas Collins of Americus have been hired as a Custodians at South Georgia Technical College, announced SGTC President Dr. John Watford recently. They will report to SGTC Maintenance director Jeff Wiseman and Special Assistant to the President Don Smith.    Watzlowick has been head chef at Aramark, food service worker at Americus Head Start program as well as a Food Director for Baker Co School System cafeteria. He will serve as a full time...

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 Tex-Mex Cuisine to SGTC faculty and staff as part of their hands-on curriculum.    The menu consisted of a house salad, Mexican corn and black bean salad, beef and chicken fajitas, Mexican pulled pork wraps, loaded beef nachos, Mexican street corn in a cup, cilantro lime mex-rice, Tex-mex ranch potatoes, churro bites...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford joined members and advisors of the National Technical Honor Society, Phi Beta Lambda and the Student Government Association at the Crisp County Center in recognizing Flag Week.    Flag Week is a week-long observance celebrating the creation of the United States Flag. It occurs every year during the week of June 14th, the date the United States Flag was created.    The SGTC Faculty advisors and student...

The Americus and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce presented a $1000 Platinum Trustee Scholarship to Minh Nguyen of Leslie, a South Georgia Technical College General Equivalency Diploma (GED) graduate, who recently received his diploma.    Jimmy Whaley, an Americus Sumter Chamber of Commerce Board member, presented Nguyen with the Platinum Trustee Scholarship in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the South Georgia Tech campus recently. Nguyen thanked the Chamber...