Several fall-semester industrial technology students at Piedmont Technical College got a whiff of that unmistakable “new-building smell” at the William H. “Billy” O’Dell Upstate Center for Manufacturing Excellence in Greenwood the first week of classes last month. The building is nearly complete (some large-scale equipment is still being installed and a few punch-list items), but its shiny new facilities are open already for welding and machine tool classes.
Because so much of America gets its legal education from television, the Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Continuing Education Division is partnering with the South Carolina Bar to offer an online course this fall titled Law School for Non-Lawyers.
Piedmont Technical College (PTC) recently honored the achievements of more than 30 conscientious student leaders via a virtual 46th Annual Student Awards and Recognition Program broadcast live over Facebook last month.
Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Welding Program Director Jim Ladd knows you can’t start a fire without a spark. Not everyone who signs up for welding begins carrying a passionate fire for the profession. Sometimes the best way to approach it is in calculated steps. That’s why PTC this fall is introducing a new Advanced Welding Certificate, which moves students into the workplace sooner so they can practice their craft while contemplating whether to continue to an associate degree.
Heather Deel of Pomaria in Newberry County, a student at Piedmont Technical College, is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship. She is majoring in business administration/accounting.
Dorothy Holmes of Greenwood, a student at Piedmont Technical College, is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship. She is majoring in administrative office technology.
Tiffany Blackmon had to postpone her interview for this article because she was busy assisting with a cesarean delivery of eight healthy puppies. While a student at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) in Newberry working toward her associate in applied science in veterinary technology, Blackmon is employed full time at Batesburg-Leesville Animal Hospital. “I’m in the middle of a C-section. Can I call...
The Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Economic Development and Continuing Education (ConEd) Division has scheduled its next multi-session Manufacturing Job Readiness Pre-Employment Workshop to begin on Monday, August 24, 2020, for job-seekers in Abbeville, Edgefield and Laurens.
Those pondering a change in career during this time of isolation might want to consider a field that has been relatively unaffected by the pandemic. One of those is real estate. And the Continuing Education Program at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) has just the thing to help aspiring real estate agents get started.
Prospective students in the Newberry County area on a quest to tour the Newberry Campus of Piedmont Technical College (PTC) are in luck, and they don’t need to create a swashbuckling avatar to do it. They now can take a virtual tour online to check out the classrooms, labs and other workspaces featured on campus.
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