GNTC alum joins Columbus Lions ownership group
November 30, 2020
Earlier this month, National Arena League indoor football team the Columbus Lions announced they are adding Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) graduate Kacee Smith to the team’s ownership group.  Smith, a Calhoun resident, said he has long admired the Columbus football program. His relationship with the Lions started 15 years ago when Smith took his […]
GNTC to hold Fall 2020 Commencement Ceremony
November 18, 2020
Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) Fall Commencement Ceremony will be held in Dalton at the Whitfield Murray Campus as a drive-thru ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 5 p.m. Fall semester GNTC graduates from all six campuses are invited to attend the ceremony. “We want to recognize and celebrate our students’ successes; however, during these […]
GNTC’s Scearce competes in 2020 Celebrity Spelling Bee
November 16, 2020
During the Eighth Annual Whitfield Education Foundation Celebrity Spelling Bee, Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) Vice President of Economic Development Stephanie Scearce, placed ninth out of 19 participants, which included community members from the greater Dalton area. The fundraising event looked different than it did last year. Audience members in the Dalton Convention Center spread […]
GNTC graduate celebrates second chance at life
November 10, 2020
Pulling his brand new tractor-trailer truck into the parking lot of Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) Walker County Campus (WCC), Jeffery Brown, a Commercial Truck Driving graduate, talked with current students of the program about how it changed his life. “Truck driving saved me,” he told them. “There is a need for good drivers with […]
GNTC and Yancey hold heavy equipment training
November 02, 2020
As Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) Construction Management student Lexa Hendrix climbed into her program’s new skid-steer loader, she listened to the directions of Zach Walden, machine representative for Yancey Bros. Co. “This control takes you forwards, backwards, side to side and this lifts the bucket,” he told Hendrix. “I want you to practice by […]