Officials from the Greenwood Corvette Club on Dec. 6, 2023, presented a check for $500 to the Piedmont Technical College Foundation to be applied toward the Greenwood Corvette Club Automotive Scholarship. Pictured from left: PTC Automotive Technology Instructor Bill King, Corvette Club Secretary Susan King, PTC Foundation Associate Vice President Fran Wiley, Corvette Club President Doug Timmerman...
The Horticulture Technology Program at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) recently was selected by the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute (ICPI) Foundation for a “Tools for Schools” grant of nearly $8,000 to purchase hardscaping equipment used for training students in concrete paver installation techniques. The ICPI is a trade association representing U.S. and Canadian producers and suppliers...
Piedmont Technical College student Briana Carruth was not going to let anything impede her progress toward a career in the criminal justice field, especially not an uncomfortable knot on the bottom of her right foot, which in March 2021 finally had a name — synovial sarcoma. In an instant, the then-21-year-old from Greenwood was forced to make the impossibly quick decision to amputate her right leg below the knee. It worked, at first, and she was deemed cancer-free. But it came back.
The Columbia Kennel Cub (CKC) presented truly heartfelt gifts recently to Veterinary Technology students at Piedmont Technical College (PTC). On Oct. 2, Kennel Club member Michele Pyle and several colleagues visited the college’s Newberry County Campus to present 24 incoming freshmen Vet Tech students with stethoscopes and calculators to help with their educational costs.
A firefighter’s air supply is of vital importance, and Emily Galloway’s was running very low. Adding to that, she was trapped, wedged in by heavy steel and unable to move. Because she was horizontal on the ground with only her feet visible, her colleagues did not realize she was in trouble. “I couldn’t move my arm to reach my mask and didn’t know how much air was left, but I knew it was low,” she...
This semester, Piedmont Technical College is (quite literally) providing students with food for thought. Officials from the college, the Food Bank of Greenwood County, and the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of The Hope Pantry on September 6 on the Lex Walters Campus-Greenwood. “This day has been years in the making. We’ve long known there...
They traveled 4,657 miles to access high-technology educational resources that residents of the Lakelands have right at their fingertips. For the second time in five years, a school in Bergamo, Italy, has sent a group of young people majoring in engineering to study abroad — at Piedmont Technical College (PTC).
Surgical Technology major Isabelle Casey was the student speaker for the morning ceremony, and Administrative Office Technology/Medical Concentration major Jael Rivera was the student speaker for the afternoon ceremony. Twenty-year veteran first responder and Newberry Fire Chief Gene Shealy delivered the public leader keynote address at both ceremonies. He focused on the upbeat sense of pride...
