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Steve Spangler is doing a science experience that involves dropping eggs into water without them breaking. South Georgia Technical College will be hosting Emmy Award Winner Steve Spangler for a FREE Back to School Event on Tuesday, August 13th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the South Georgia Technical College James S. Peters gymnasium. The public is invited to attend.     Steve Spangler is a science celebrity educator who has appeared on the Ellen Show. Steve enjoys the science of...

South Georgia Technical College has been impacting student success for over 70 years. South Georgia Technical College Dean of Enrollment Management Julie Partain is shown above with Crisp County Center Instructors Karen Bloodworth and Teresa Jolly and their PBL students who took first and fifth place in the national PBL competition recently competing against university, graduate, and community college students. The students are: Allysia Oliver, Christopher Mathews, and PBL National Winner...

South Georgia Tech to host Registration/Preview Day July 17th. South Georgia Technical College will be hosting a Fall Semester Registration/Preview Day on both the Americus and Crisp County Center campuses on Wednesday, July 17th, 2019. Students who apply and register for Fall Semester on July 17th will have their $25 application free waived and receive a free t-shirt with the new slogan, “We are Impacting Student Success at SGTC,” while supplies last. Refreshments will also be...

South Georgia Technical College students Andreas Edwards and Shantelle Brito are shown above with PBL Advisor Dr. Andrea Oates at the PBL National Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Texas, recently. South Georgia Technical College’s Americus PBL chapter earned six national chapter and individual awards at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) National Leadership Conference (NLC) in San Antonio, Texas recently. The six awards and recognitions earn by the Americus PBL Chapter included: being...

South Georgia Technical College’s Tison Smith and Chance Westra are shown above participating in the Chapter Display competition. Six South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) students earned the right to compete in the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, KY recently and each of the students advanced to the final rounds of their respective competitions. In order to advance to the SkillsUSA Nationals, the South Georgia Technical College students had to finish...

Pictured above (l to r) are: Teresa, Jolly, PBL Advisor and Business Technology Instructor; Allysia Oliver, Business Technology student; Kennedy Allen, Business Technology student; Christopher Mathews, Business Technology student; and Karen Bloodworth, PBL Advisor and Accounting/Marketing Management Instructor. South Georgia Technical College’s Crisp County Center’s Business Technology student, Kennedy Allen of Vienna, captured first place in the Computer Applications competition at...

South Georgia Technical College Licensed Practical Nursing Instructor Jennifer Childs is shown above with SGTC retiree Harry Dragon and SGTC’s Linda Edge at the Red Cross Blood Drive held at South Georgia Tech recently.   South Georgia Technical College hosted a blood drive through the American Red Cross recently. The blood drive was held in Hicks Hall on the Americus campus and all eligible donors were encouraged to participate.    The blood drive resulted in registering 29 total...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above greeting the individuals to the SGTC Adult Education advisory meeting recently. Adult Education Dean Lillie Ann Winn is also shown (left standing). 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...

   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...

Both the Sumter County School Board members and the Ignite College and Career Academy Board members and officials are shown above during the Groundbreaking ceremony. 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...

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’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...

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