The children who play at the Miracle League Ballpark in Elmer Thomas Park will be protected from the elements this year, thanks to the skills of welding students from the Great Plains Technology Center. Allen Bellamy, GPTC welding instructor, said his students began building covers for the two handicapped-accessible...

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Tuesday, March 13th 4:30-7:30 p.m. Worley Seminar Center@ Great Plains Technology Center Building 300 Where a small business can display and sell their products and/or services to the general public. Limited to the first 50 applicants. Click here for more info and an application.   share: Recommend...

TYRELL ALBIN Staff Writer—Lawton Constitution Photo by Jeff Dixon ~ Staff ~ Lawton Constitution Shelly Tanner has diesel running through her veins. The Elgin High School junior grew up in a family where large trucks were a big part of life. Now, she’s the only female student in the Great Plains...

Great Plains’ staff and school bring home OkACTE honors. Shown - Julie Tyler, Glen Boyer, Kristy Barnett ~ Great Plains’ staff brought home several Oklahoma Association of Career and Technical Education honors at the annual summer conference in Tulsa. Glen Boyer was named the Outstanding Communications...

Students part of recipe for success at Taste of Home Cooking School set today ~TYRELL ALBIN~ ~Lawton Constitution~ Photo by Jeff Dixon Now we’re cookin’. Several students from the Great Plains Technology Center will show off their cooking expertise from 5-9:30 p.m. today at the McMahon Memorial...

Career Connections is an opportunity for students entering into the 7th, 8th, or 9th grades to experience some of the career training offered at Great Plains Technology Center in the fields of engineering technology, video production, culinary arts, and babysitting.   Each week-long Connections Camp...

~ TYRELL ALBIN ~ ~ Lawton Constitution ~ Technology is making classrooms more efficient for students in the Great Plains Technology Center’s Respiratory Therapist program. Starting with the current semester, every student in the Respiratory Therapist program is using an Apple iPad tablet computer....

“Great Plains recognizes its 40th anniversary in 2011: 40 years of preparing students and employees to be ‘work life ready’. Five hundred and thirty-one high school students enrolled in Great Plains in 1971. Today we are fortunate to serve more than 20 times that number of students...

High school and adult students can earn “Tuition-Free College Credit” while attending GPTC.  Through  Cooperative Alliance Agreements with Western Oklahoma State College in Altus, Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology in Okmulgee and Cameron University in Lawton, GPTC student can earn...

Lawton Public Library now computes at a much faster speed thanks to Great Plains Technology Center’s installation of donated computer equipment. Students from two Great Plains computer network classes refurbished the computers and installed them in late November. They’re ready to go! Instructors...

Great Plains Technology Center’s Board of Education and its City and County public safety partners officially dedicated the new Law Enforcement/Emergency Services Building (Building 900) on Friday, June 4, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. The event included a ribbon-cutting by the Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce...

Great Plains Technology Center was in its second year of operation in 1972-73.  That was also the year when Great Plains high school senior Terry Oates came up just shy of winning first place in the state Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (now Skills USA) business enterprise competition.  What...

Great Plains Technology Center will celebrate the completion of its newest public safety facility, a two-story, 22,000 square foot Emergency Response Building, Building 900 at a special dedication ceremony and reception on Friday, June 4th.  Great Plains Board of Education, area legislators, City and...

A 45 year career in public education is coming to an end.  Great Plains superintendent Jim Nisbett has announced his retirement effective June 30, 2010, the end of the fiscal year.  Nisbett has worked at Great Plains since 1981, the last 15 years as superintendent. Nisbett says when he came to work...

Tobacco use will soon be a thing of the past at both Great Plains campuses. The GPTC Board of Education has passed a new policy that will prohibit the use of all tobacco products by all people (students, employees, vendors, contractors and other guests) 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  The new policy...

Women from across southwest Oklahoma will convene in the Worley Seminar Center at Great Plains Technology Center for the Women for Women Conference, Thursday, October 22, 2009, 8:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is open to all women with a desire to develop their potential. The event is will feature three...

2008 Campus Crime Report In an effort to insure patron and student safety and security, Great Plains Technology Center (GPTC) has policies in place for campus security, crime reporting and prevention; and drug/alcohol use prevention. We are proud of the record we have attained. According to public law...

Great Plains Technology Center’s Law Enforcement cadets now have a brand new home. It’s the top floor of Building 900. The new facility located at the southwest corner of the Lawton campus houses the tech center’s law enforcement/criminal justice program and the City of Lawton’s Training Division....