Officials from the Greenwood Corvette Club on Dec. 14, 2021, presented a check for $500 to the Piedmont Technical College Foundation to be applied toward the Greenwood Corvette Club Automotive Scholarship, the fifth scholarship the group has funded to date. Pictured from left: PTC Automotive Technology Instructor Bill King, Tom Bickerton, Mac Francisco, Corvette Club President Doug Timmerman, PTC...
A coordinated, multi-campus food drive at Piedmont Technical College this fall collected hundreds of pounds of nonperishable items for donation to local food pantries. Donations were distributed as follows: • The Greenwood and Newberry campuses donated a combined 450 pounds of food to the Food Bank of Greenwood County. • The Laurens County campus donated 177 items to the First United Methodist...
Diana Pet Food North America, a global provider of products and services that improve pet food palatability, pet health, and pet food protection, continues to innovate in its approach to building and sustaining a high-performing workforce. Recently, the company has partnered with Piedmont Technical College and Apprenticeship Carolina™ to create and register several new apprenticeships with the US Department of Labor.
When his wife, Coronicca, got the call to come teach computer technology at Piedmont Technical College (PTC), Army veteran Derek Oliver was completing his advanced EMT training at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Life has moved at a rapid pace ever since. “We had two weeks to move,” Oliver said. It was a scramble to get situated in the Lakelands, but the couple did it. Soon, Oliver got a job with Greenwood...
Before Lynn Rogers got home from her job interview with ZF Transmissions in Gray Court, an email offering her the position already had landed in her in-box. A 2020 graduate of Piedmont Technical College’s Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) Certificate Program, Rogers has been working full time at ZF for about a year now and is proud to be among the female faces in a profession where they once were scarce.
Piedmont Technical College (PTC) will hold an “Instant Admission Day” for the spring semester on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, at the Lex Walters Campus-Greenwood Enrollment Center. Participants can get accepted on the spot and begin moving closer to their career goals.
When Elizabeth Crocker prepared to spend her first day at Prysmian Power Cables & Systems this summer, she did not expect to be awed — literally awed — by the global impact of a local company in the quiet, pastoral enclave of Abbeville County. “What I thought was most valuable about the experience was to realize what all Greenwood, Newberry, Abbeville, and Laurens produce for the world. That was...
This month, Piedmont Technical College (PTC) and the Western Piedmont Education Consortium (WPEC) began a partnership to strengthen the linkage between high school students, employers, and postsecondary pathways—ultimately to help students better connect with a career path earlier in their studies and with good jobs after graduation.
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