The fear of loss was a common theme in the winning essays of Piedmont Technical College’s annual English Department Writing Contest. Awards were presented in two categories: Nonfiction Essay and Writing About Literature. This year’s winner in the Nonfiction Essay category is Melissa Billey for her piece “Matters of the Heart.” Billey is an online student majoring in General Technology Commercial Art from the town of Donalds in Abbeville County. The winner in the Writing About Literature category is Brandon Martinez of Greenwood for his analysis of the poem “Bilingual/Bilingue” by Rhina P. Espaillat.
It makes perfect sense that 25-year-old Grateful Dead fan Vincent Bell would enroll at Harvard University this summer to study business. The former Piedmont Technical College (PTC) student can only applaud a band that very successfully deployed one of the most unconventional business plans in music history by actually encouraging their fans to tape and share recordings from their live shows. The...
Piedmont Technical College students who had outstanding academic accomplishments during the 2019 Spring Semester have earned inclusion on the President’s List. To be named to the list, students must be full time and earn a term GPA of 4.00. Students will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the college president.
The inaugural class of graduates from the Greenwood Edge program received their certificates last week at a special ceremony at Piedmont Technical College in Greenwood. In all, 19 students received certificates in a number of manufacturing disciplines through the collaborative scholarship program sponsored by the Greenwood Promise and the county’s school districts.
They call them “earworms,” those catchy musical ditties that keep replaying in your head and can be hard to shake. A good example many parents will recognize is the children’s hit song “Baby Shark.” During a youngster’s education, we always hope the positive lessons from early childhood will be long remembered ― like a good earworm. This year’s Literacy Days field trips at Piedmont Technical...
At Piedmont Tech's recent spring commencement, outstanding students from each of the college's seven supporting counties were honored for academic achievement.
It happens more often than one might think, but it never ceases to impress when young high school students practically earn their higher education certificates and associate degrees before their diplomas. Twenty-three (23) of these young people did just that recently during Piedmont Technical College’s Spring Commencement Exercises. T’Laysha Creswell, a student soon to graduate from McCormick High School’s Middle College, is one of those young people, and just to raise the bar a bit, she also served as a commencement speaker! Talk about poise!
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