Psychology and criminal justice student Shaynee Hogges, 35, recently instructed a class on Crisis Intervention Team Training, a special course designed to enhance 911 operators’ knowledge and abilities to assist in critical incidents.

Middle Georgia State University will use a newly announced $1.2 million grant from the Peyton Anderson Foundation to help fund an intellectual and creative center designed to take on some of the region’s most difficult challenges.

Dr. David Biek calls it “the most insane thing ever.”

What else would you get when you turn loose more than 200 kids from area middle and elementary schools onto a robotics competition, LEGO building contest, and science fair all rolled into one?

“Instant insanity and chaos,” Biek said, “but so much fun.”

We’re talking, of course, about the regional tournament of the FIRST LEGO League Challenge, hosted on the Macon Campus almost every December since 2018 by Middle Georgia State University’s School of Education & Behavioral Sciences (SEBS).

Following an investment of resources from the state, Middle Georgia State University (MGA) is better able to implement plans to bolster Georgia’s flagship School of Aviation in ways that will begin to address the long waiting list of aspiring pilots seeking admission.

Taking a break from their studies one day, Middle Georgia State University students Noah Kincaid and Andris Perri skateboarded into downtown Cochran and began tooling around near the old county jail on Beech Street. They weren’t sure what to think when a young man wearing a firefighter’s uniform approached them.