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SGTC High Performance Engines – Motorsports Instructor Kevin Beaver is shown above talking with a student about the new Motorcycle Maintenance program that will begin at SGTC Spring Semester. Classes start January 11th and it is not too late to apply.   South Georgia Technical College will begin offering a new one-semester Motorcycle Maintenance Technician technical certificate of credit Spring Semester, which begins January 11th, 2023.  Students can apply now.    “The program is being...

Fanta Gassama, 23, named GCAA Player of the Week   South Georgia Technical College’s Fanta Gassama has been selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Women’s Basketball player of the week.  Gassama averaged 18.3 points and 13.3 rebounds in three wins for the Lady Jets last week.    Gassama, a 6’ 1” sophomore center from Mataro Spain, has helped lead the Lady Jets to a 4th place national ranking in the National Junior College Athletic Association and a...

Twelve graduates of the South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) program received their nursing pins in a recent ceremony in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus. A crowd of family, friends, administrators, and instructors attended the event to show their support as the students participated in the traditional pinning ritual. Receiving their pins were Jasmine Brown of Albany, pinned by SGTC grad Mary Jones LPN; Yolanda Forrester...

Karen Bloodworth is shown above outside her classroom where she taught both marketing management and accounting classes at the SGTC Crisp County Center.   South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Marketing Management and Accounting Instructor Karen Bloodworth has decided to retire from teaching after spending 15 years helping students gain the skills needed to enter the workforce.   “I have enjoyed my time at South Georgia Tech.  It is a great school and provides great...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford (center) is shown above with Jake and Margie Everett and the new recipients of the Rose Ann Everett Scholarships. Shown (l to r) are SGTC Welding Instructor Ted Eschmann, Rose Ann Everett Scholarship winner and welding student Sebastian Shattles, Jake Everett, President Watford, Margie Everett with SGTC John Deere Tech student and Rose Ann Everett scholarship winner Mason Dill with his John Deere Tech instructor Matthew Burks.  ...

South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Industrial Electrical and Air Conditioning Technology Instructor Mike Enfinger is shown above looking at one of the trainers that he uses in his classroom to teach students.   If any one man has left his fingerprints and footprints on a college campus, it would have to be South Georgia Technical College’s Mike Enfinger, who is retiring as the Crisp County Center’s Industrial Electrical and Air Conditioning Technology instructor with...

South Georgia Technical College President, Dr. John Watford, recently announced the four finalists for the honor of representing SGTC in the annual Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) competition to be held in Atlanta next April. The students chosen as finalists were: Tredarrion Colbert of Americus, Barbering; Karson Richmond of Johnson City, TN, Heavy Equipment Dealer Service Technology; Kristy Tyus of Ellaville, Medical Assisting; and John Welch of Ellaville, Criminal...

SGTC students recently attended an on-campus recruiting event for Raymond Carolina Handling.South Georgia Technical College Career Services recently hosted Raymond Carolina Handling for their first on-campus recruitment event. Students from several SGTC programs attended the event to learn more about the career opportunities at Carolina Handling, an intralogistics solutions company in business for 55 years. Upon meeting with SGTC students, Tanner Burford, Field Service Manager for Carolina...

Fifth-grade students from Furlow Charter School recently visited the SGTC campus to learn more about the college’s programs.South Georgia Technical College recently welcomed 46 Furlow Charter School fifth-grade students for a tour of SGTC programs that align with their science standards. The students visited aviation maintenance, aircraft structural, precision manufacturing, and industrial electrical systems. During their visit, the fifth-graders interacted with the college’s recently...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford (left) is shown above presenting 2022 GOAL Student and Culinary Arts honor graduate Zakyah Jaton Cameron with his associate of applied science degree. Nearly 250 individuals earned the right to be recognized at the South Georgia Technical College’s Fall 2022 commencement ceremony Thursday, December 8th at 6 p.m. in the James S. Peters gymnasium.  This was SGTC’s second graduation ceremony for 2022.  Approximately 165 individuals...

Members of the Rick Perkins Award selection committee (l-r) Don Gilman, Betty Suggs, Jennifer Albritton, Dr. Dorothy Ingram, and Harley Calhoun. SGTC Rick Perkins Award nominees (l-r) Wanda Bishop, Chester Taylor, and Rose Leggett.South Georgia Technical College recently announced three finalists for SGTC’s 2023 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year award. Nominated by other members of the SGTC faculty, the finalists are Wanda Bishop, Criminal Justice; Chester Taylor, Mathematics; and Rose...

SGTC Adult Education Instructor Tonya Visage has been nominated for the TCSG Office of Adult Education Outstanding Teacher of the Year award.South Georgia Technical College adult education instructor Tonya Visage has been nominated by the college for the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) Office of Adult Education Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. “Students admire her because she is kind, patient, and cares about them,” said Lillie Ann Winn, SGTC Dean of Adult Education....