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From left to right: SGTC General Education advisory committee members Chester Taylor, Lillie Ann Winn, Dr. Michele Seay, Raven Payne, Kim Miller, Shelly Godwin, Jaye Cripe, Deo Cochran, Cynthia Carter, and Dr. Andrea Oates.The South Georgia Technical College General Education and Learning Support advisory committee met recently in the Energy and Transportation Center on the SGTC Americus campus. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Technical College faculty and...

SGTC Crisp County Center students are pictured enjoying the Mardi Gras celebration that was organized by the Student Government Association. South Georgia Technical College’s Student Government Association (SGA) Crisp County chapter recently held a Mardi Gras themed student activity in the Crisp County Center’s LaPorte Auditorium. All SGTC students who attended received a door prize and snacks that the Culinary Arts department provided. Students wearing purple, green or gold took part in...

Kanna Suzuki, 14 led the Lady Jets in scoring with 15 points.Lubbock, TX - The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets defeated the Motlow State Community College Lady Bucs 64-56 in the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I women’s national basketball tournament in Lubbock, TX Monday to advance to the sweet sixteen round. The Lady Jets will face number two seeded Odessa College from Odessa, Texas at 7 p.m. eastern standard time on Tuesday, March...

SGTC President John Watford is shown above with Dan Linginfelter, who will be speaking at the 2017 Griffin Bell Convocation at South Georgia Technical College in Americus on Wednesday, March 29th at 11 a.m. The public is invited to attend. Dan Linginfelter, Senior Airworthiness Inspector for Gulfstream Aerospace and a 1979 Aviation Maintenance Technology graduate from South Georgia Technical College, will be the featured speaker at the South Georgia Technical College Griffin B. Bell...

The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets began the first leg of their journey to the NJCAA Division I women’s national basketball tournament in Lubbock, Texas. They are shown here right before they boarded the SGTC vans for the Atlanta Airport.The 15th nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets left for the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I women’s basketball tournament in Lubbock, Texas. This is the Lady Jets third trip in four years...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford (r) is shown above with members of the Flint Energies Foundation Board accepting $3,132 from the Flint Energies Foundation with SGTC Vice President of Institutional Advancement and SGTC Foundation Executive Director Su Ann Bird (third from left).REYNOLDS/WARNER ROBINS/UPATOI – The South Georgia Technical College Foundation was one of four local technical college foundations that were awarded $17,692.00 in grant funds from the Flint...

South Georgia Technical College 2017 EAGLE winner Pablo CastanedaAtlanta – South Georgia Technical College’s Pablo Castaneda was one of the 26 EAGLE (Exceptional Adult Georgian in Literacy Education) adult learner students recognized by the Technical College System of Georgia for outstanding achievement in the state’s adult education program in Atlanta recently. Jonathan Swinsburg, a delegate from Athens Technical College, was named as TCSG’s 2017 adult education student of the...

Eshonda Blue (center) is pictured with the African American History Program committee and other program participants. Pictured from left to right on the front row are Maria Rivera, NTHS President/state officer; Paul Farr, SGTC Director of Business and Industry Services; Dr. Michele Seay, SGTC Psychology Instructor; Teresa O’Bryant, Executive Assistant to the President; Eshonda Blue; Victoria Herron, SGTC Aviation Maintenance Instructor; Cynthia Carter, SGTC Director of Career Services;...

SGTC Lady Jets leave for the NJCAA Division I National Tournament in Lubbock, Texas on Friday, March 17th.The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets will face off against the Motlow State Community College Lady Bucks from Tullahoma, TN, in the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I women’s basketball tournament at the Rip Griffin Center in Lubbock, Texas on Monday at 3 p.m. eastern standard time. The game will be broadcast live on WISK/WDEC locally...

Fifteen SGTC SkillsUSA members and their advisors are getting ready to head to Atlanta to compete at the statewide SkillsUSA competition.South Georgia Technical College’s SkillsUSA members are preparing for the Georgia Postsecondary State Championships March 23rd – 25th at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta. The 15 competitors and their events include: William Manning of Americus, Josiah Copland of Montezuma, and Bailey Mills of Cordele, Aviation Maintenance...

Mike Cheokas is shown above with the FFA students from Marion County Middle/High School during his State Board of Education swearing in session with Governor Nathan Deal.Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal held a swearing-in ceremony recently for newly appointed former state representative Mike Cheokas to serve on the State Board of Education. Cheokas, who will represent the 2nd Congressional District, replaces W.T. Henry. “Mike Cheokas is a dedicated state and community leader who continues to...

Shown above are the Lady Jets holding up their NJCAA District J plaque after defeating Denmark Tech and earning the right to advance to the NJCAA National Tournament in Lubbock, Texas, March 20th – 25th.AMERICUS, GA - The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets earned a trip to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I women’s basketball national tournament after soundly defeating Denmark Tech from Denmark, S.C., 91 – 58 Saturday in the NJCAA District J championship...