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GNTC is accepting applications for the 2026 Latin American Association-Mohawk Scholarships through Oct. 31. This scholarship, funded by the Latin American Association (LAA) with the sponsorship of Mohawk Industries Inc., supports students involved in the Hispanic community who graduated from eligible high schools in Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray or Whitfield Counties. Up to six scholarships will be awarded for the spring 2026 semester.

Mary Sharay and Olin Yaoapoqa, Horticulture students at the Floyd County Campus in Rome, have received a Rabbit Valley Farmers Market Scholarship. Scholarship applicants must be planning a career related to farming, gardening, landscape design, environmental issues, floral design or horticulture.

Jesse Nicholson, a Calhoun resident, and Mayahuel Yaoapoqa, a Menlo resident, have received the Gene Haas Scholarship, which rewards academic excellence and provides financial support for students working toward a degree, diploma or certificate in the Precision Machining and Manufacturing program.

The GNTC Foundation has announced that GNTC’s Board of Trustees has been named a 2025 Role Model Board by the Technical College Foundation Association of Georgia. This year marks the fourth consecutive year that the GNTC Foundation has received this honor.

GNTC has received a donation of 32 student manuals for its Commercial Truck Driving – Class A program. J. J. Keller & Associates Inc. recently notified the GNTC Foundation that it would make a one-time donation of 32 copies of its “Entry-Level Driver Training Obtaining a CDL Student Manual” to the college.

The Foundation at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) has announced the first recipients of the new Octaviano and Bertha Perez Scholarship. Jesus Arellano and Jackson Woodard—both students in Construction Management at GNTC’s Gordon County Campus in Calhoun—received the scholarship for the fall 2025 semester.

The GNTC Foundation awarded approximately $40,000 in grants and scholarships for fall semester 2025, with recipients ranging in age from 17 to 87.

AdventHealth and Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) have signed an agreement designed to boost enrollment in GNTC’s Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) program, thereby helping to expand and continue nursing education services in northwest Georgia.

Love’s Travel Stops has awarded a grant to Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) to support the college’s for-credit Commercial Truck Driving – Class A program. Love’s recently notified the GNTC Foundation of the $1,000 award. GNTC sought the funds to purchase driver log books in bulk to provide to Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) certificate program […]

The Foundation at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) awarded 51 scholarships totaling more than $36,000 to 48 graduating high school seniors in the northwest Georgia region. Recipients of the Chattooga High School Alumni Scholarship are Connor Elrod, Micheal Cordle II, McKenzie Evans, Akeyla Hendrix and Preslee Hurley. Gisselle Tome, Coosa High School, has been awarded […]