These students from Ninety Six Elementary School’s Junior Nursing Club were recognized during the Piedmont Technical College Nursing Department’s Pinning and Awards Ceremony earlier this month.
Nineteen Greenwood-area high school students participated in a signing day ceremony with the Greenwood Edge on May 15 at Piedmont Technical College’s Lex Walters Campus-Greenwood.
Pint-sized buses arrived with their adorably diminutive cargo at Piedmont Technical College’s Lex Walters Campus-Greenwood recently just in time for the early care and education (ECE) program’s fun-filled Literacy Day, an annual event now in its fifth year.
A team from Piedmont Technical College traveled to Sumter last month to participate in the SC Technical College System’s 36th Annual Welding Skills Competition, which was hosted by Central Carolina Technical College.
Seven students from Piedmont Technical College’s chapter of Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) joined their instructor, Coronicca Oliver, at the PBL State Conference at Virginia College in Greenville on April 7. The conference included seminars and competitive events, during which several PTC students were top finishers in a range of contests designed to test their business knowledge and skills.
As the days grow warmer and students prepare for graduation or ascension, the presentation of formal accolades commences. Piedmont Technical College (PTC) recently honored the achievements of more than 40 conscientious student leaders at its 44th Annual Student Awards and Recognition Program.
Piedmont Technical College (PTC) and South Carolina State University (SC State) signed an articulation agreement today that will create more options for students who would like to begin their studies at Piedmont Tech and then complete a bachelor’s degree program at SC State.
After the house has grown quiet and her family is asleep, Kayce Porterfield pores over numbers and balance sheets in preparation for classes at Piedmont Technical College. She’ll be up at dawn with her husband and two young daughters to start another long day juggling parenting, housework, child care and studying all over again with the same solitary, lamp-lit conclusion. Call it grit. Call it determination. But for the past four years, the young woman has refused to quit, even when life threw some daunting surprises her way. Even through unbearable grief.
Piedmont Technical College will hold two spring commencement exercises on Thursday, May 3. An afternoon ceremony for Arts & Science, Health Science and Nursing graduates will take place at 3 p.m. An evening ceremony for Agriculture, Business, Computer Technology, Engineering/Industrial Technology and Public Service 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 in Greenwood.
At Piedmont Technical College (PTC), scholarship options not only help pay for school, but they help recognize and distinguish students from other peers. When ready to enter the workforce, having been a scholarship recipient also can help someone’s resume stand out from the rest.
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