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South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) practical nursing advisory committee met recently on the college’s Americus campus to discuss the current state of the program and the industry as a whole. The six members met in a McClain Building classroom to discuss the topics over breakfast. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff in continuous quality improvement of the college’s program. SGTC’s Americus campus nursing instructors...

ATLANTA, Ga - Sumter County’s Café Campesino, Crisp County’s Norbord GA, LLC division, Macon County’s International Paper Flint River Mill, and Webster County’s Interfor Preston Division were nominated by South Georgia Technical College to be recognized at the 2019 Georgia Manufacturing Appreciation Week Manufacturers of the Year Governor’s Award Luncheon at the Georgia International Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia, recently. They were among an elite group of the top...

South Georgia Technical College will be hosting its 2019 spring graduation exercise Thursday, May 2nd at 6 p.m. in the James S. Peters Gymnasium on the Americus campus.   Kelsi Cannon of Ellaville, GA, South Georgia Technical College’s 2019 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner, is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the event. The SGTC practical nursing student will address the graduates and their families, fellow students, faculty, and staff during the...

Atlanta, GA - Katherine Murphy, a business technology student at South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center was recognized as a member of the Who’s Who in Georgia PBL at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) State Leadership Conference in Atlanta recently.   Murphy of Ashburn was recognized with the “Who’s Who” in Georgia PBL for her efforts in raising the most funds for the March of Dimes charity.   Teresa Jolly, Business Technology Instructor, and Karen...

South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center chapter of the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) recently inducted 23 new members into the organization which recognizes students’ outstanding academic achievement. The induction ceremony was held in the LaPorte Auditorium of the Crisp County Center campus in Cordele. The 23 students included Kennedy Allen of Vienna, business technology; Darica Blunt of Cordele, practical nursing; Jonathan Bowen of Pinehurst, welding; Antonio...

South Georgia Technical College’s Americus campus held its final Student of Excellence ceremony of the semester recently, where they named Colyn Johnson of Nicholls, Georgia the overall winner. The avionics student, who is set to graduate next semester, received the recognition over six other nominees who were all in the transportation programs division. The ceremony was held in the John M. Pope center in front of a room full of students, instructors and family members of the...

Kennedy Allen, a business administrative technology student from Vienna, was named South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center Student of Excellence for the month on April. She was awarded the title at a recent ceremony on the Cordele campus, which honored her and five other nominees for their outstanding work ethic. Allen was nominated for the award by her instructor, Teresa Jolly. She first enrolled at South Georgia Tech during the spring C-term semester of 2018. In the...

South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center Accounting, Business Technology and Marketing Management programs held an joint advisory meeting in the boardroom on the college’s Crisp County campus recently.   Members of SGTC Accounting, Business Technology and Marketing Management advisory committee met with Business Technology instructor Teresa Jolly and Accounting/Marketing instructor Karen Bloodworth. The members reviewed all aspects of the program to keep the...

South Georgia Technical College inducted 25 new members into the Americus campus’ chapter of the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) recently during a special ceremony in the John M. Pope Center. The induction marks one of the largest classes the student organization has ever ushered in. The new inductees included: Taariq Abdullah of Covington; Brady Bennett of Molena; Eric Blake of Dawson; Nathan Brown of Dawson; Noah Foster of Mount Pleasant, TN; Frederick Gear of Americus;...

South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) barbering and cosmetology program advisory committees jointly met recently on the college’s Americus campus to discuss the current state of the programs and the industry as a whole. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff in continuous quality improvement of the college’s beauty programs. SGTC’s barbering instructor, Xavier Jackson, and cosmetology instructor, Dorothea Lusane-McKenzie,...

Americus, GA – Ron Clark, teacher and administrator of the award-winning and internationally acclaimed Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, was the keynote speaker at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center’s Community Health Symposium recently in the South Georgia Technical College gymnasium.   The Community Health Symposium, was free and open to the public and covered healthcare issues important to the community. Local experts talked about behavioral health, anti-bullying and overall health and...

South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) air conditioning technology program advisory committee met recently on the college’s Americus campus to discuss the current state of the program and the industry as a whole. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff in continuous quality improvement of the air conditioning technology program. SGTC’s air conditioning instructors Glynn Cobb and Brian McDowell provided the committee with updates and...