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A long line of students and parents wait for their orientation session to begin at the recent Pre-registration Day event on South Georgia Technical College’s Americus campus. Both campuses (Americus, Cordele) of the college will hold a second, more engaging registration event on August 16, 2018.On the heels of a successful pre-registration day in which more than 500 students registered for classes at South Georgia Technical College (SGTC), the college announced it will hold its second...

South Georgia Technical College officials are shown above with a team from Delta TechOps. Delta Air Lines signed a partnership agreement with South Georgia Technical College earlier this year and The Delta Air Lines Foundation presented the South Georgia Technical College Foundation with a $50,000 donation recently to enhance SGTC’s Aviation Maintenance/Avionics programs. Shown standing (l to r) are SGTC Aviation Maintenance Instructor Charles Christmas, SGTC Vice President of Economic...

Summer Semester Luau Flyer Two of South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center student organizations are planning to end the Summer semester on a high note. The Crisp County Center chapter of the Student Government Association (SGA) will close out the semester with a Luau party, and the National Technical Honor Society is sponsoring a school supply collection to help benefit a local non-profit organization. The Luau is scheduled for July 24 at 11 a.m. in the LaPorte Auditorium....

South Georgia Technical College EMT students are shown administering aid to mock victims during the emergency response drill at SGTC.Over 150 individuals participated in a multi-layered emergency response training drill on the South Georgia Technical College campus recently that involved more than 20 different emergency response agencies as well as students from South Georgia Technical College and Georgia Southwestern State University. “On behalf of South Georgia Technical College...

Hairstyling competition winner Codi Dozier stands behind her model, Lindsey Dozier, with South Georgia Technical College instructor Dorothea Lusane-McKenzie. Dozier won an engraved plaque for creating the best hairstyle of the competition.Hairstyling isn’t a competition – that is until South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) cosmetology instructor, Dorothea Lusane-McKenzie, holds an annual hairstyling competition for her cosmetology students on the college’s Americus campus. Codi...

An emergency response drill will be conducted on the Americus campus of South Georgia Technical College on Thursday, July 12 between 5 - 7 pm.An emergency response drill will be conducted on the Americus campus of South Georgia Technical College on Thursday, July 12 between 5 - 7 pm.AMERICUS, GA — South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) and Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) will be the sites for a multi-layered emergency response training drill on Thursday, July 12. The simulated...

Bailey Mills, center, stands with SGTC President Dr. John Watford and one of his instructors Victoria Herron, following his being named as a SkillsUSA National Champion.South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) student Bailey Mills has proven himself to be the top aviation maintenance technology (AMT) student in the country after winning the gold medal at the national SkillsUSA competition in Louisville, Kentucky recently. Mills was chosen to represent South Georgia Technical College and the...

Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) members Andrea Burton-Jackson (left) and Alicia English (right) stand with PBL advisor Dr. Andrea Oates (center), holding their awards from the national leadership conference in Baltimore, Maryland.Two members of South Georgia Technical College’s Americus chapter of the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) student organization attended the Institute for Leaders and National Leadership Conference in Baltimore, Maryland recently, bringing several national awards back to Americus. The...

CIS instructor Randy Greene (left) presents Dakota Hall, CIS student on SGTC's Crisp County Center campus, with his A+ certification. Dakota Hall, a Computer Information Systems student at South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center recently earned his A+ certification, validating him as an Information Technology (IT) professional. The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) A+ (Plus) is an entry-level computer certification for PC computer service technicians. The...

South Georgia Technical College student Trenton Rundle, son of Practical Nursing instructor Christine Rundle, relaxes as he donates blood at the recent American Red Cross blood drive held on the SGTC campus.South Georgia Technical College’s Americus campus hosted a blood drive in collaboration with the American Red Cross recently, bringing in seven more units of blood than the anticipated daily goal. A total of 25 units of blood were donated to the Red Cross during the drive, which...

Two students work together on the main project of the camp – creating a robotic hand. Students learned how to assemble the hand and about the processes that made it work.South Georgia Technical College hosted its first STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – camp of the summer recently at its Crisp County Center location in Cordele. The free camp was a way to show and teach the participants about how STEM education is applied in various real-world trades. The camp lasted...

Bailey Mills, one of the three SGTC students competing in the SkillsUSA National Competition, practices his sheet metal skills – one of the skills he will be judged on in the aviation maintenance technology competition. Three South Georgia Technical College students are preparing to compete on the national stage when they travel to Louisville, Kentucky on June 25 to attend the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference. The five-day event is the world’s largest showcase of...