Welding Instructor Tommy Lyles (l) and Machine Tool Instructor William Blackledge (r) give their students Yoni James and Shawn McBride a farewell send-off.


The families of Shawn McBride (l) and Yonathan James (r) wish them well prior
to leaving for Brazil.


Exchange students pose with the President of the Universidade
Federal de Goias and Francisco Figueiredo (second from the left). Our student,
Yoni James, is in the yellow shirt.

Augusta Tech's Exchange Students arrived safely in Brazil on January 20th after saying their good-byes to family and their Augusta Tech instructors. Shawn McBride, a Machine Tool Technology student and Yoni James, a Printing and Graphics student, were selected to participate in a six month long exchange program with a Brazilian college.