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      Evan Wood of Fort Valley, GA, was awarded the South Georgia Technical College Foundation Chattahoochee Flint REA Electrical Lineworker Scholarship recently.  SGTC Foundation Executive Director Su Ann Bird made the presentation along with other South Georgia Technical College officials.     Chattahoochee-Flint RESA presented the South Georgia Technical College Foundation with a donation to help fund student scholarships for its Electrical Lineworker program.  Over 600 students have...

    Alexandria Grace Spain of Oglethorpe was awarded the Chief Vanessa Wall Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Scholarship by the South Georgia Technical College Foundation at the SGTC Law Enforcement Academy 23 – 01 graduation ceremony recently.    The endowed scholarship was established in honor of retired Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs Vanessa Wall who began her career at South Georgia Technical College over 20 years ago as the initial Criminal Justice Instructor.  She...

      Retired U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Howie Franklin shared a secret of success with a standing room only capacity crowd of students, faculty, staff and community members at the South Georgia Technical College Griffin B. Bell Convocation recently in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the SGTC campus in Americus, GA.  The convocation was held in honor of the college’s 75th anniversary.    “This is a special year as South Georgia Technical College is...

    Julie Slade Partain has been named Vice President for Academic Affairs at South Georgia Technical College effective April 17, 2023, announced South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford.  Partain has been serving as the Dean of Enrollment Management on the Crisp County Center since 2016.     “Julie Partain has been an integral part of South Georgia Technical College for the past 22 years.  She began her career as the Workforce Investment Act Coordinator and has...

    South Georgia Technical College Law Enforcement Academy Class 23-01 completed training and were presented with Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) certificates of completion in the graduation ceremony in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus.       “South Georgia Technical College is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year,” said South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford.  “We were one of the first technical colleges...

      Howie Franklin, U.S. Air Force retired, will be the guest speaker at the South Georgia Technical College Foundation Griffin B. Bell Convocation April 11 at 11 a.m. in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the South Georgia Technical College Americus campus.  This is in honor of the college’s 75th anniversary.  The public is invited to attend.    Franklin retired after 29 years in the United States Air Force as a Chief Master Sergeant.  He spent 24 years at Andrews Air...

    South Georgia Technical College will be hosting its Spring Take-off Open House in both Americus and on the Crisp County Center on Friday April 14 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.  The event on the Americus campus will be held in the James S. Peters Gymnasium and on the Crisp County campus it will be held in the LaPorte Auditorium.    Everyone is invited to attend this free event and meet instructors, staff and students to learn more about the over 200 programs of study available at South...

    South Georgia Technical College hosted its annual hiring event with nearly 50 different businesses and industries attending and hoping to fill vacant positions recently in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus.  The event was open to the public.     “The annual Career Fair is an ideal place to learn about job openings and network with employers,” said Cynthia Carter, South Georgia Technical College Director of Career Services.  “Even if people were...

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, Andre Robinson, and cosmetology instructor, Dorothea Lusane-McKenzie,...

The South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Industrial Programs Advisory Council recently met on the campus of South Georgia Tech in Americus to discuss SGTC’s Electronics, Industrial/Electrical Systems Technology, Precision Machining and Manufacturing, and Welding programs. The meeting was held in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center. The general purpose of the advisory councils at SGTC is to advise and assist program personnel and the college in training and preparing students...

   In 1987, President Ronald Regan visited West Berlin and delivered a speech calling for the leader of the USSR, Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall.  The first “The Simpsons” cartoon short was shown on the Tracey Ullman Show, and the popular television sitcom, “Full House,” debuted on ABC.    All of those were important news events 35 years ago, but Chris Murphy remembers 1987 fondly because that is the year he graduated from South Georgia Tech with a Business Equipment...

South Georgia Technical College recently hosted a meeting of the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) board in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on SGTC’s Americus campus. In attendance were: SGTC WIOA Coordinator Sandhya Muljibhai; Janice West, River Valley Regional Commission (RVRC) WIOA Director; Tenisha Tookes, RVRC WIOA Program Specialist; SGTC President Dr. John Watford; and SGTC students Shannon Jones, Aislin Vicente-Pelico, and Hailey Dunford. WIOA is a...