Piedmont Technical College (PTC) will hold two summer commencement exercises on Thursday, August 1, 2019. An afternoon ceremony for Health Care graduates will take place at 3 p.m. An evening ceremony for Agriculture, Arts & Sciences, Business, Computer Technology and Engineering/Industrial Technology graduates will be held at 7 p.m. Both commencements will take place in the James Medford Family Event Center on PTC’s Lex Walters Campus-Greenwood.
Nine years after graduating from Piedmont Technical College (PTC) with an associate in veterinary technology, Elizabeth Stevens found herself back at her alma mater on the Newberry campus training current students to use a blood coagulation analyzer manufactured by the global company she now works for, IDEXX. It has turned out to be a dream job with a company she hopes to make a career with.
Working as a veterinary technician involves far more than the fun stuff like cuddling puppies and kittens. Most of Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Veterinary Technology Program Director Dr. Ruthie Buist’s students enter the program understanding this. Others, not so much. “I actually had a student say to me once, ‘I didn’t know there would be so much science!’” Buist said. “The biggest thing is...
Valerie Yarbough-Jones is on the road a lot around graduation season. All 16 of her students ― 100 percent ― graduated this spring with associate degrees from Piedmont Technical College (PTC). In fact, McCormick Middle College (MMC) has logged a near-perfect completion record since it started in August 2011. She keeps tabs on nearly every one of her students, and she’s seen many go on to graduate...
Those who may feel under-employed or want to upgrade their professional skills can take two semesters (or less) ― tuition-free ― and earn a certificate that can place them in a good, entry-level job with no waiting.
It’s that time of year when people plan road trips to all sorts of appealing destinations. Piedmont Technical College’s newest Test Drive series ― scheduled for July 15-16 in Greenwood ― can help transport participants to the largest range of featured career destinations yet, and it’s free.
If you could earn college credit while still in high school—tuition-free—why wouldn’t you? That is exactly what Piedmont Technical College’s Dual Enrollment students will be able to do starting this fall.
Students hoping to enroll quickly at Piedmont Technical College can head straight to the express lane at “Instant Admission Days.” At these events, counselors are on hand to help students who “feel the need for speed” get accepted on the spot and quickly complete their enrollment process for the fall 2019 semester. Students will leave Instant Admission Day already enrolled and prepared to start classes.
The Piedmont Technical College Commercial Art Department on Thursday, June 27, 2019, will celebrate the historic installation of the college’s first chapter of the international Kappa Pi Art Honor Society at the Lex Walters Campus-Greenwood. The ceremony also will welcome 11 new student inductees. All media and the public are invited to attend.
If you can play ― and win ― at Star Trek 3-D chess, you just might be a cybersecurity professional. One challenge in cybersecurity work is that the playing field is constantly changing, and not just in a binary way. That can make training and certification, like a Klingon Bird of Prey, a moving target. Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Computer Technology Instructor Henry Ecker says that people...
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