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Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College will host summer day camps for middle and high school students in July and a special workshop for teachers in June. The VEX Robotics Summer Camp for rising sixth- through 11th-graders will be held Monday through Friday, July 11-15. The Ten80 Student Racing Challenge Introductory Camp for ...

Vegetable gardeners rejoice – there’s a new category in the Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Foundation’s Home and Garden Symposium Flower Show. The “vegetable plants grown from seed in 2016” category celebrates the beauty of plants that offer us sustenance and joins the returning categories of specimen plants and houseplants; bulbs and ...

Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College will hold its spring graduation at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in the Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center on the campus of South Carolina State University. This year’s speaker will be Dr. James “Jimmie” Williamson, president of the South Carolina Technical College System. Prior to becoming System president in ...

The Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Foundation will hold its 12th annual Home and Garden Symposium on Wednesday, May 11, on the campus of OCtech. The day will begin with flower show entry drop-off from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., followed by a silent auction and brunch catered by Buckridge Plantation from 10 ...

Dozens of local high school seniors learned about the many STEM career opportunities available at OCtech during the “Ignite Your Career” Youth Forum on March 17. The forum was sponsored by OCtech, the South Carolina Department of Commerce, S.C. Regional Workforce Advisors, Lower Savannah Council of Governments, SC Works Lower ...

The Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Foundation has welcomed Virginia “Ginny” Watson Williams to its board of directors. Williams is an attorney at Williams & Williams Attorneys at Law. She earned bachelor’s degrees in history and Spanish from the University of South Carolina, a master’s in bilingual legal interpreting from the College ...

Four local entrepreneurs shared their success stories – and the challenges they faced building their businesses – with Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College business students during a recent Entrepreneurship Panel Discussion. The discussion was held during National Entrepreneurship Week, Feb. 20-27, 2016. This year’s panelists were Joanna Godwin, owner of JoJoSox; Rachelle ...

Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College student Ashley Drummond has been named to South Carolina’s 2016 Phi Theta Kappa All-State Academic Team. She was one of 35 S.C. Technical College System students to be honored during an award ceremony March 2 at the Capital City Club in Columbia. Drummond, of Lugoff, is an ...

Three faculty and staff members have been honored as Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College’s Educators of the Year and were recognized during the South Carolina Technical Education Association annual conference Feb. 18-20 in Myrtle Beach. Laney Cornelius, a building and grounds supervisor at OCtech, is the outstanding administrator; JoEllen “Jody” W. Ott, ...

Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College and the Center for Creative Partnerships will kick off the Community Cinema social justice film series on Thursday, Feb. 23, with a screening of “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun.” The film will begin at 6 p.m. in Roquemore Auditorium, Building R, on the campus of ...