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Pictured (l-r): SGTC Career Services Director Cynthia Carter, Department of Juvenile Justice Recruiter Ryan Blue, and SGTC Culinary Arts Instructor Ricky Watzlowick at a recent recruiting event on the SGTC campus.The Career Services department at South Georgia Technical College is helping employers reach their employment goals by offering on-campus recruitment opportunities. Recently, recruiter Ryan Blue of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice Muscogee County branch travelled to SGTC...

SGTC Motorsports Vehicle Technology students Detrontae Daniels of Lithonia and Tyquillious Mohone of Eatonton show off the “lucky bamboo” displays they created in an activity sponsored by the SGTC Office of Student Affairs to commemorate National Gardening Day.Students, faculty, and staff on the South Georgia Technical College campus in Americus recently had the opportunity to create their own “lucky bamboo” arrangements as part of National Gardening day. Participants placed bamboo...

SGTC Industrial Electrical Instructor Patrick Owen did a simulation for the students with solar panels and showed them how electricity could be generator from the sun.    South Georgia Technical College participated in the Chattahoochee Flint Georgia Youth Science and Technology Center’s (GYSTC) Science on the Farm Day at Jimmy Carter’s Boyhood Farm outside of Plains recently.     The day was filled with opportunities for the approximately 200 sixth through eighth graders from Dooly...

Chef Little is shown above conducting the Heathy Cooking Demonstration for Crisp Regional Hospital.Cordele, GA - The Crisp Regional Chronic Care Management & Chronic Kidney Disease Program held the first cooking demonstration for CCM & CKD program participants recently at the South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center. Austin Histon, LPN, organized the event with the help of Crisp Regional Hospital AVP of Quality Services, Jodi Ingram. The cooking class as led by South Georgia...

South Georgia Technical College is currently Changing Lives through workforce education. Enroll today for Summer Semester.    South Georgia Technical College is currently registering students for an eight-week summer semester session which begins on May 25th and can be completed by July 29th.  There are no test requirements for admission.  The college will be hosting in-person registration and orientation sessions on Tuesday, April 19th in Americus and on the Crisp County Center...

The Crisp County Power Commission donated a 2000 GMC 8500 Digger Derrick truck to the South Georgia Technical College Foundation recently to be used in the college’s Electrical Lineworker program. Shown above (l to r) in front of the truck are: SGTC Electrical Lineworker Instructor Dewey Turner, Crisp County Power Commission Mechanic Trey McBryant, SGTC Instructor Harold Ergle, Crisp County Power’s Manager of Operations Blake Manning, Director of HR Ladreka Daniels, and Chairman Ray...

The SGTC Crisp County Center Accounting, Business Technology, and Marketing Management Advisory committee met recently. Shown above (l to r): David Wade, City of Cordele; Nicole Turner, SGTC Business Technology Adjunct Instructor; Karen Bloodworth, Accounting/Marketing Management Instructor; Teresa Jolly, Business Technology Instructor; Julie Partain, Dean of Enrollment Management; Michelle McGowan, Director of Business and Industry Services; Becky Fitzgibbons, Crisp County Power; and Sandi...

Greg Long is shown above with the South Georgia Technical College logo when he came out to update his workforce records and let the college know he is now a local business owner putting his skills to work.   South Georgia Technical College Barbering alumnus Greg Long decided to make a change in his life and has now opened Long Cuts Barber Shop, which he describes as “an old-fashioned barber shop” at 200 Windsor Avenue in Americus.     Long worked at Electrical Wholesale Supply in...

2022-2023 SGTC Student Government Association officers (l-r): Jy’mia Fann, Parliamentarian; Makayla McCant, Reporter; Montavious Angry, Secretary; Anna Rees, Vice President; and Brandon Price, President.The South Georgia Technical College Student Government Association (SGA) recently held a meeting on the SGTC campus in Americus. The SGA is composed of student representatives from different program areas. At the recent meeting led by Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs and SGA...

Eden Edge   Eden Edge of Cordele has been hired as an Adjunct Nail Tech Instructor for the South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center, announced President Dr. John Watford recently.  SGTC will begin offering the Nail Tech Program on its Crisp County Center campus beginning May 25th.   She will report to SGTC Dean of Enrollment Management Julie Partain and SGTC Vice President for Academic Affairs David Kuipers.    “We are pleased to have Eden Edge join South Georgia Technical...

Frank Gassett, second from left, is shown above with two of his former graduates, Dan Linginfelter and Dr. Royce Ann Martin, as well as SGTC President Dr. John Watford. Linginfelter and Martin both retired after tremendous careers in the aviation maintenance field. Linginfelter who is now Chairman of the Technical College System of Georgia State Foundation Board and former TCSG Alumnus of the Year, retired from Delta Air Lines as the Atlanta Station Manager, International. He also recently...

Shown above with SGTC Assistant Vice President Josh Curtin (left) are some of the SGTC faculty, staff, and students who participated in the “Walk Your Way to a Health Happy Life” as part of the National Walking Day celebration.   South Georgia Technical College’s Student Affairs Department hosted a “Walk Your Way to a Healthy Happy Life” as part of the National Walking Day celebration.  All students, faculty and staff were encouraged to participate.     The original walk was...