Press Releases

For the 2020 spring semester, which begins on January 7, the Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) Foundation awarded scholarships to 63 students totaling $49,150. These funds assist students with education-related costs such as tuition, fees, books, classroom and lab supplies, and more. The students who were awarded scholarships were Sondra Gordon of Baconton, Rebecca Kearns, Savannah Pace, and Hannah Salter of Bainbridge, Jennifer Cliett, Ashley Hornsby, and Sandy Matias of Cairo,...

For their fall service project, the local chapter of Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) at Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) – Moultrie chose to sponsor two local children in foster care through the Suitcases for Kids holiday program. The students were inspired to take on this project thanks in part to the experiences of one of their own, SRTC Business Technology major and PBL member Melissa Foster. Melissa was in and out of foster care from the age of two. One of her earliest memories was...

On Thursday, December 12, five students were recognized at a Medical Assisting pinning ceremony held at Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) - Moultrie. These students completed one semester of prerequisite coursework as well as multiple semesters of rigorous occupational coursework, including a series of clinical rotations at local medical offices. Felecia Applewhite of Tifton, Brooke Maple or Moultrie, Jonathan Sims of Moultrie, Ana Valdez of Moultrie, and Amanda Willis of...

On Wednesday, December 11, Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) held a pinning ceremony honoring the most recent class of Practical Nursing (PN) students from SRTC - Bainbridge and SRTC- Moultrie. The ceremony commemorates the students’ successful completion of their nursing coursework and clinical rotations. “The Practical Nursing Faculty and I are so proud of these graduating Practical Nursing Students. These students have worked hard and prepared well. They have...

On Wednesday, December 11, Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) held a pinning ceremony during which forty-one Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) students from the LPN to RN Bridge program and the Generic ASN program received their nursing pins. The ceremony commemorates the students’ successful completion of their nursing coursework and clinical rotations. This class of nursing students will also participate in SRTC’s formal graduation ceremony on December 12, and will...

On Thursday, December 5, Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) honored graduating Radiologic Technology Thomasville students during their pinning ceremony. Eight students were recognized at the awards ceremony and received pins to mark the completion of their program requirements: Jordan Baugham of Thomasville, Pamela Contreras of Thomasville, Emory Dean of Thomasville, Laura Maxwell of Cairo, Hailee Trawick of Cairo, Kaitlyn Tonkin of Thomasville, Whitney Thompson of...

Business Management students from Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) Thomasville raised a total of $1700 to benefit Thomasville’s Halcyon Home during the 2019 fall semester. The students were members of the capstone-level Team Project course, which gives future business leaders an opportunity to experience the realities and rewards of successful project management. The course is unique in that each semester, students form teams to initiate and complete real-world projects to...

Recently, Archbold Medical Center accepted the 2019 Technical College Foundation Association (TCFA) Distinguished Service Award in acknowledgment of their generous and unwavering support of Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC). For more than 25 years, Archbold Medical Center has championed technical education through their financial support of SRTC (and the former Southwest Georgia Technical College and Thomas Tech.) The TCFA Distinguished Service Award is designed to showcase...

On Tuesday, November 19, the inaugural Pharmacy Technician Program cohort at SRTC-Bainbridge received their certificates of completion. Pharmacy Technicians assist Pharmacists in dispensing prescription medication to customers or healthcare professionals. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the need for Pharmacy Technicians has been growing steadily for over a decade, and is projected to continue to grow at a steady rate nationwide. "Healthcare is always growing so as the...

On Wednesday, November 13, Mr. Fred Rudbeck, Bainbridge Area Manager with Georgia Power, presented a check for $2,500 from the Georgia Power Foundation to the Southern Regional Technical College Foundation. The funds will be used to support Electrical Construction and Maintenance educational programs on SRTC’s Bainbridge campus. SRTC’s School of Industrial Technology offers eight programs in Electrical Construction and Maintenance. These programs include four certificate options...

MC Electrical Services in Valdosta recently donated ten Altivar variable frequency drives (VFDs) to the Southern Regional Technical College Foundation. These drives will be used by the College’s Industrial Electrical Technology and Electrical Systems Technology programs to teach students how to install, maintain, and repair VFDs in the field. A VFD is a type of motor controller that drives an electric motor by varying the frequency and voltage supplied to the electric motor. “Anything...

The Tifton chapter of the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) at Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) recently inducted 12 new members into the organization. The 2019 Fall NTHS inductees are Macy Martin of Sylvester, Mercedes Curles of Adel, Sara Muterspaugh of Tifton, Anna West of Tifton, Hannah Roberts of Nashville, Charles Conger of Chula, Michael Golden of Omega, Felicia Richardson of Tifton, Beverly Suggs of Moultrie, Kimberly Lovett of Thomasville, Nicholas Craig of...