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South Georgia Technical College’s Adult Education department hosted its advisory committee meeting recently in the John M. Pope Center on the Americus campus with representatives from each of the seven county areas served by South Georgia Technical College’s GED programs.    South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford and SGTC Adult Education Dean Lillie Ann Winn welcomed the advisory committee members, instructors, and guests to the meeting. Winn also talked...

   South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford recently announced the college’s President’s List for the spring semester, which included 117 students from around the area and across the Southeast. To be eligible for the President’s List, a student must be enrolled full time (12 or more credit hours) in an associate degree or diploma program and have a 4.0 GPA for that semester’s coursework. Those students who qualified included: Crisp County: Nicholas...

South Georgia Technical College officials were on hand to celebrate the Sumter County Board of Education’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new Sumter County High School that will be constructed on South Georgia Technical College Parkway across from South Georgia Technical College.    Several hundred community members, Sumter County School Board of Education Members, Ignite College and Career Academy Board members and supporters, as well as high school faculty, staff, and...

South Georgia Technical College’s culinary arts students recently set up a pop-up restaurant in the college’s Hicks Hall “Landings” Restaurant and served Southern Cuisine to SGTC faculty and staff as part of their hands-on curriculum. This is the last pop-up restaurant in the series.    The menu consisted of southern pasta salad, potato salad, fried or baked chicken, BBQ sandwich, ribs, baked beans, collards, corn confetti, sour cream pound cake, BTS cake, cornbread,...

Shown above are a group of the SGTC culinary arts students with Chef “Ricky” Watzlowick getting ready for the restaurant project.

South Georgia Technical College Registrar Eulish Kinchens of Americus has been named Vice President of Student Affairs and Academic Dean Vanessa Wall of Ellaville will now serve as the Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs in charge of campus security, student activities, and on-campus housing. The new assignments are due to a reorganization of administrative responsibilities among South Georgia Technical College senior staff and Presidential cabinet members, announced South...

Eulish Kinchens named Vice President of Student Affairs and Vanessa Wall named Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs with duties over Campus Security, On-Campus Housing and Student Activities at South Georgia Technical College.

South Georgia Technical College will be hosting a FREE summer STEM camps for middle school students July 16th – 18th at the college at 900 South Georgia Tech Parkway, Americus, GA 31709. Space is limited and admission will be awarded on a first come – first sign up basis.    For more information about the camp, contact Nancy Fitzgerald at nfitzgerald@southgatech.edu or call 229-931-2508. Students can sign up for the camp now on the SGTC Facebook Page under events or click...

Holly Free-Ollard, Apprenticeship Manager for the Technical College System of Georgia Office of Workforce Development, partnered with South Georgia Technical College to host an Apprenticeships Industry meeting at the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the SGTC Americus campus recently.    Business and Industry leaders and representatives from the counties served by South Georgia Technical College attended the meeting to learn more about the benefits of apprenticeships....

South Georgia Technical College’s culinary arts students set up a pop-up restaurant in the college’s Hicks Hall “Landings” Restaurant and served Jamaican Cuisine to SGTC faculty and staff as part of their hands-on curriculum.    The menu consisted of a house salad, tangy Jamaican coleslaw, Jamaican jerk chicken, Caribbean boneless pork chop, Jamaican cabbage, Caribbean confetti rice, Trinidad macaroni pie, banana cake with cream cheese frosting, pineapple upside-down...

South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center’s Electrical System Technology instructor Mike Enfinger was nominated for and received the Golden Apple Award from the Crisp County School System. Jordan Gilliam of Cordele, a dual enrollment student in the Electrical System Technology program at South Georgia Tech, was the nominating student.    Crisp County High School’s high academic achieving graduates are allowed to award a Golden Apple to a current or former...

South Georgia Technical College has finished the first day of a FREE three-day STEM camp for high school students in grades 9 through 12 at the Crisp County Center on North Midway Road. Students can still sign up for day two and three by contacting Nancy Fitzgerald at nfitzgerald@southgatech.edu or 229-931-2508.    Students participated in a Pringle challenge using engineering skills to build a tower from Pringle chips. They also visited the South Georgia Technical College...