Test-driving a career is a two-way street, and the Work-Based Learning initiative operating collaboratively between The Greenwood Promise and Piedmont Technical College (PTC) is a perfect proving ground for both job-seekers and employers. Work-Based Learning (WBL) is a structured learning experience for students at a worksite for a specific timeframe that leads to a career path. WBL enables...
The Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Horticulture Program’s annual Poinsettia Sale is planned for Dec. 2-3, 2022. This year, there are nine breathtaking varieties of poinsettia to choose from. All plants are grown on campus by the college’s horticulture students and come with a decorative pot cover and festive snowflake transport sleeve.
They used to be quiet places where people tiptoed and whispered or fingered though ancient card catalogs searching for titles amid sprawling book stacks. The emerging 21st century library is traveling along a new, widely meandering path, and the libraries of Piedmont Technical College (PTC) are riding shotgun. PTC Head Librarian Lola Bradley is eager to streamline and maximize the college’s...
Future farmers got the real dirt on soil quality at the Invitational Future Farmers of America (FFA) Soil Judging Contest hosted by the Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Diversified Agriculture Program at its Saluda County Campus on Sept. 22, 2022. Nineteen FFA teams from 12 different schools across the state competed. The event welcomed 62 high school student participants and 15 high school agriculture instructors.
Christina Knight, a longtime instructor of Engineering Design Technology and General Engineering Technology at Piedmont Technical College (PTC), has been named Dean of the college’s Engineering and Industrial Technologies Division. The promotion was effective on Nov. 1, 2022.
Piedmont Technical College (PTC) is pleased to announce that two of its second-year Respiratory Care Program students recently won scholarships for research papers they wrote. The students — Amaro Sunga and Gabby Vickery — were honored at the SC Society for Respiratory Care (SCSRC) State Conference in Myrtle Beach.
A cross-country runner in high school, Rachel Caron is well acquainted with sometimes meandering racecourses that might loop and bend through grassy fields, forest trails, or muddy pastures. The Piedmont Technical College (PTC) transfer student’s college experience, in fact, has been a reversal of the conventional transfer pathway to a baccalaureate degree. She began her journey at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) and will finish her degree at PTC, rather than the other way around.
