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Coastal Pines Technical College’s Horticulture Club will be hosting their upcoming club meeting at a local business, Ganas Pecan Company. The meeting will be held on August 25, 2022 at 3:00pm at Ganas Pecan Company located at 1638 Plant Ave. The upcoming Horticulture Club meeting is open to any staff, faculty, or interested community members who want to learn more about the joy of plants! If you love plants, then this is the club for you. Through plant propagation and other horticulture...

The CPTC Foundation recently hosted a luncheon on the Jesup Instructional Site for the Charles Eames Travel Scholarship. A total of 23 Travel Scholarships were awarded for the Summer Semester (not all awardees attended the luncheon) to students taking classes at the college. "Charles Eames is such a friend to Coastal Pines Technical College and the Foundation. He continues to support us in the times we live in. He has a passion for our students and their struggles to attend classes and...

Recently Steven Green, an LPN student on the Waycross campus competed and won a the SkillsUSA National competition. Students from all over the state and nation went to Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center to compete in a number of competitions in various categories. Steven Green won the Nurse Assisting category for the SkillsUSA National competition. Steven was joined by his SkillsUSA club advisor and several other college employees at the competition. Coastal Pines Technical College...

Dr. Jeannie Martin, Biology Instructor, for Coastal Pines Technical College was recently chosen as one of the class participants for the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders (EWCL) Class 9. The Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders (EWCL) training program helps jump-start early career conservation professionals through a combination of skills training, networking opportunities with peers and established practitioners and the completion of a global wildlife conservation initiative. This...

Each semester Coastal Pines Technical College (CPTC) recognizes students who have accomplished high academic achievement through the President’s List, Dean’s List and the Academic Achievement Award. The President's List recognizes full-time students who earned a semester GPA of 4.00 and have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher. The Dean’s List recognizes CPTC students enrolled full time who have earned a semester GPA of 3.75 - 3.99 out of a possible 4.0 and have a cumulative GPA of...

The CPTC Foundation recently awarded the Georgia Automotive Dealers Association (GADA) scholarship to 13 students in Automotive Collision and Automotive Repair programs for Summer Semester. Students in auto-technology, auto-collision, and other automotive related programs were eligible to apply for assistance from the Georgia Automobile Dealers Association Scholarship to offset any fees, costs of attendance, books, supplies and other educational expenses. Instructors Larry Carr and...

The Coastal Pines Technical College (CPTC) Foundation has been awarded a $10,000 Grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for fiscal year 2023 to be used for literacy needs in the Adult Education Program. The $10,000 award will be used to purchase state approved curriculum (i.e., KAPLAN GED Test Prep Plus and GED Exercise Books, ESOL books, subscription to educational news articles, virtual curriculum, etc.) along with supplies and materials (i.e., pencils, USB drives, white out,...

The CPTC Foundation recently held it’s 7th Annual Sporting Clays Tournament at Dorchester Hunting Preserve in Midway, Ga. The event was a huge success even though there had been a 2 year delay due to the pandemic. There were a total of 29 teams that signed up to participate in the event. A special thanks goes out to the Lock Stock and Barrel Sponsors of the event – International Auto Processors, Cogdell and Mendrala, and a Special Supporter of CPTC. All shooters got an opportunity to...

Coastal Pines Technical College is proud to announce today that it has earned the 2022-2023 Military Friendly® School designation. Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2022-2023 survey with 665 earning special awards for going above the standard. The 2022-2023 Military Friendly® Schools list will be published in the May and...

Pictured (l) Lyle Strait with Tractor Supply in Brunswick and Kyle Crews, (R) Welding & Joining Instructor at Coastal Pines Technical College – Golden Isles site. Special thanks to Tractor Supply in Brunswick who recently donated new welding tools to Coastal Pines Technical College (CPTC) through the CPTC Foundation. These tools will be used in the Welding lab on the Golden Isles site. Thomas Wesley, Dean of Academic Affairs Technical and Industrial programs, states “We...

Last week a group of students from Coastal Pines Technical College (CPTC) along with staff and instructors traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for the SkillsUSA Postsecondary Competition. The students competed against other colleges in many categories for the chance to place in the yearly competition. The Gold medal winner will have the chance to attend Nationals this summer. The Skills USA National Competition will also be held in Atlanta in June of this year. Steven Green, a Practical Nursing...

Coastal Pines Technical College (CPTC) received a Law Enforcement Training grant from the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC). CPTC received $21,151 to be used for essential training for our police personnel (which includes use of force and de-escalation) to ensure that they are full prepared for whatever they may encounter. Ethan Johnson, Campus Police Chief for CPTC states “this grant funding will provide for the purchase of much needed active shooter and de-escalation training...