Savannah – More than 800 school counselors from all over Georgia got a first-hand look at many of the top programs offered by Georgia’s 34 technical colleges during a special ‘Taste of the Technical Colleges’ reception held Sunday evening in Savannah.

The Technical College System of Georgia sponsored the event to help kick-off the start of the Georgia School Counselors Association’s annual fall meeting at the Savannah Hyatt Regency Hotel.

“This isn’t your daddy’s old trade school anymore, and we want you to see why,” was DTAE Commissioner Mike Vollmer’s welcome to the counselors.  The guests filled the hotel ballroom to enjoy food specialties created by the instructors and students from the colleges with culinary arts programs. Technical college presidents, instructors and staff were all eager to show booth after booth of technical education programs including aerospace, healthcare, computer sciences, and much more.

The ‘Taste of the Technical Colleges’ is a prime occasion for the Technical College System of Georgia to showcase the advanced college programs and the rewarding careers being created for Georgia’s 150,000 technical college students.

A similar ‘Taste’ was held earlier this year in Atlanta for the state legislators. 

“Our hope was that this ‘Taste of the Technical Colleges’ would serve to better inform Georgia’s school counselors about the unlimited potential that lies within technical education,” said Vollmer.  “Judging by the number of ‘wows’ and the ‘thank yous’ that we heard, I think we did just that,” he added.