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Growing up in the predominantly black township of Kingstree, South Carolina, John Pendarvis received his earliest arts education. “Art was always around. My mother had cousins who did art,” he said. “One of them who lived across the street from us would always come over and draw for us kids. He was the greatest artist I had ever known. So art was always there.”

����ʦapp (PTC) is springing forward in March when it makes the South Carolina Manufacturing Certification (SCMC) available for the first time in McCormick County. Just as a mechanical spring can potentially store and release energy when pressure is applied, this certification allows those who experience stress from being unemployed or underemployed to potentially gain skills and deploy them immediately in the workforce. Even better? It’s free for those who qualify.

Caroline Chappell doesn’t have time to worry about awards or recognition. She’s too busy tweaking language ― crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s ― on essential grant applications she produces in her role as grants administrator at ����ʦapp (PTC). This past December, she learned that someone, indeed, had taken note of her hard work. She had been selected as one of the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce’s “Greenwood Stars Under 40” award recipients.

Over the 2019 holidays, ����ʦapp (PTC) horticulture student Kellan Hamrick flew on an airplane for the first time in his life. To Las Vegas, Nevada. But he was even more excited about what he considered a much bigger thrill ― rubbing elbows with irrigation experts from around the country.

Graduates of Piedmont Tech's Nursing Program this winter recently received pins.

At ����ʦapp’s recent fall commencement exercises, outstanding students from the college’s supporting counties were honored for academic achievement.

����ʦapp (PTC) and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have announced a new partnership in which highly qualified students at PTC will be able to transfer after two years to the MUSC College of Pharmacy to earn their doctor of pharmacy degree.

The late B.C. creator Johnny Hart imagined his caveman characters needed to develop language, so “Wiley’s Dictionary” became a regular highlight of his beloved strip. Delighting readers since 1958, B.C. continues today thanks to Hart’s grandson, Mason Mastroianni, who has carried on illustrating the strip (as well as Hart’s Wizard of Id) for about 13 years. Mastroianni will be on the Lex Walters-Greenwood Campus of ����ʦapp to share insights from his career as a nationally syndicated artist and illustrator on Thursday, January 30, at 3:30 in the campus library.

As she walked off campus way back on her first day of classes at ����ʦapp, graduation speaker Noel Johnson of Greenwood, pondered this question: “What could I accomplish if I took every opportunity I was given ― even if I failed?” she said. “That’s when I decided I wanted to be the best student I could be.” Ordinarily a quiet, reserved young woman, Johnson decided that, even if it was uncomfortable or unfamiliar, she indeed would “say yes” to opportunities that came her way. First she said yes and applied for scholarships to reduce her tuition costs. ...