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SGTC Law Enforcement Academy graduates are pictured with SGTC President Dr. John Watford (far right), LEA Program Director Brett Murray (far left), and Dean for Academic Affairs Vanessa Wall (second from left). Those graduates, from left to right, are Kendranna Walker, Tiffeni Fox, Austin Smith, David Sims, Jr.; Joshua Wayne Taylor; Calvin Hodge, Jr.; Wesley Phillip Atchley, Robert Gene Fairbanks, and Michael Steven Bentley.   South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) recently hosted its Law...

SGTC Instructor of the Year, Andrea C. Ingram, will be the keynote speaker at the South Georgia Tech Fall Graduation on Thursday, December 15th at 6 p.m. in the SGTC gymnasium.South Georgia Technical College’s Instructor of the Year Andrea C. Ingram will be the keynote speaker at the South Georgia Technical College Fall 2016 graduation exercise on Thursday, December 15th at 6 p.m. in the James S. Peters Gymnasium on the Americus campus. Ingram, the Computer Information Systems...

Clockwise from top left are SGTC GOAL semi-finalists Gage Greene, Racarda Blackmon, Russell Wright, and Christopher McGee. These four finalists will interview with a selection committee, comprised of community leaders, and one winner will be selected to compete for the statewide GOAL title.   Four South Georgia Technical College students have been selected as the college’s semi-finalists for the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL), according to Cynthia Carter, coordinator for...

Shown above (l to r) are Jody C. Smith and Nicholas Smarr, the two officers who were shot in the line of duty Wednesday. Both had attended the South Georgia Technical College Criminal Justice program.South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford announced today that the South Georgia Technical College Christmas party scheduled for tonight from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. has been cancelled due to the recent events that have occurred in the community. “On behalf of the entire South...

SGTC’s Crisp County Center PBL chapter recently celebrated Prematurity Awareness Month for the March of Dimes through a series of fundraisers and events, which kicked off with a Baby Feet pledge card fundraiser. South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) Crisp County Center Phi Beta Lamba (PBL) chapter recently celebrated Prematurity Awareness Month and Non-Stop November with a variety of fundraisers and student events for the March of Dimes and PBL. Those events included a March of Dimes...

SGTC Cosmetology instructor Dorothea McKenzie (left) is pictured with Cosmetology students Morgan Whaley (standing) and Sabrina Kelley. The Cosmetology program was recently recognized as a top cosmetology program in the country.   South Georgia Technical College’s Cosmetology program has been recognized as one of the best in the nation by The Community for Accredited Online Schools (AccreditedSchoolsOnline.org). As a leading resource for higher education and college accreditation...

South Georgia Technical College was spotlighted at the “A Taste of TCSG” event. Shown above (l to r) are: South Georgia Technical College Vice President of Institutional Advancement and SGTC Foundation Executive Director Su Ann Bird, SGTC President Dr. John Watford, SGTC and TCSG State Goal winner Ashley Rodgers, Daniel Linginfelter, Jr. (son of Daniel Linginfelter, Sr.), SGTC and TCSG Distinguished Alumni Daniel Linginfelter, Sr., and his wife Gloria, former SGTC President and TCSG...

Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) State Board Chairman Joe Yarborough along with state board member Judge Richard Porter from Thomasville, Georgia, is shown above presenting South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford with a proclamation naming South Georgia Technical College as a finalist for the 2016 Technical College of the Year award. Also shown congratulating President Watford is TCSG Commissioner Gretchen Corbin. The announcement was made at the TCSG State...

GOAL logoSouth Georgia Technical College (SGTC) instructors have nominated thirteen of their students for the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership( GOAL) competition, according to SGTC GOAL Coordinator Cynthia Carter. GOAL, a statewide program of the Technical College System of Georgia, honors excellence in academics and leadership among the state’s technical college students. GOAL winners are selected at each of the state’s 22 technical colleges as well as one Board of Regents...

Tyler Stanford (right) was named SGTC Student of Excellence for November. He is pictured with SGTC Dean for Academic Affairs Raymond Holt. Seated from left to right are SGTC Student of Excellence nominees Amy Griffin, Stephen Simmons, Marvin Johnson, Tyler Stanford, and Shelby Arnett. Standing, from left to right, are Dean for Academic Affairs Raymond Holt, instructors Charles Christmas, John Wilder, Starlyn Sampson, Craig Kelly, Kevin Beaver, and Dean for Academic Affairs Dr. David...

SGTC President Dr. John Watford and his wife, Barbara are shown above at the gourmet hot chocolate bar manned by SGTC's O-Team. The SGTC Air Conditioning Technology group had a snow man lighted up for the event. Here is one of the guests shown with the “snow” man. Over 500 individuals participated in South Georgia Technical College’s first “Light Up Your Future” event using Christmas Lights to illuminate the programs and opportunities it offers. The event was held in Gailey Park...

Christian Powell is named Student of Excellence.  Pictured on the first row from left to right are Student of Excellence nominees Russell C. Wright, Mykaula Harvey, Christian Powell, Dontavious Harrell, and Halie Fennell. On the second row from left to right are nominees Nichelle Martinez, Troy Gilliam, Christopher M. McGee, Alliyah Sutton, Felicia Young, and Clay Oxford (not pictured is nominee Kevin Davis). Standing from left to right are nominating instructors Vicki Gilbert, Mike...