Culinary Students Get Hands on Experience on a Daily Basis
Story By: Kayli Perez
With the move to Academy-style learning, Independence School District students get a closer look at real world skills and applications on a daily basis.
Students can pick a path that sets them up for what they might want to do in the future. In the Culinary Arts pathway in the Business Academy, students learn the basic skills as freshmen and sophomores and then have the opportunity as juniors and seniors to work in larger commercial kitchens at Central Office for a portion of the day.
There, students learn fundamentals of cooking, techniques, managing options, silverware properties, and you get to cook in big commercial kitchens, sometimes alongside with other businesses or chefs.
About half of the students time is spent in classrooms learning about management for businesses or safety in the kitchen. Then the rest of the time is spent in the kitchens either cooking, watching, serving, catering, etc..
Four Chrisman students go to Central Office for this program, including Macie Bogue. She decided to do this program because she wants to continue with culinary in college and go to a culinary school.
“It is a great experience and if you’re wanting to go into culinary then this will help you out so much,” said Bogue.
Students can get an industry recognized credential from the National Restaurant Association, and are already getting culinary scholarships to colleges because of how much this pathway is setting them up.
“The program gives you a certificate to become a manager for restaurants after high school, so that’s cool that we already have things to set us ahead of other people and were just leaving high school,” said another culinary student Tristan Steele
Also on top of all of this the students can potentially get offered internships from the businesses they interact with.
“It is really fun to go there and learn new things about culinary,” said Roman Campa. “The pathway may not be what I plan on doing for my future but this definitely gives me a path that I can go to.”
With the move to Academy-style learning, Independence School District students get a closer look at real world skills and applications on a daily basis.
Students can pick a path that sets them up for what they might want to do in the future. In the Culinary Arts pathway in the Business Academy, students learn the basic skills as freshmen and sophomores and then have the opportunity as juniors and seniors to work in larger commercial kitchens at Central Office for a portion of the day.
There, students learn fundamentals of cooking, techniques, managing options, silverware properties, and you get to cook in big commercial kitchens, sometimes alongside with other businesses or chefs.
About half of the students time is spent in classrooms learning about management for businesses or safety in the kitchen. Then the rest of the time is spent in the kitchens either cooking, watching, serving, catering, etc..
Four Chrisman students go to Central Office for this program, including Macie Bogue. She decided to do this program because she wants to continue with culinary in college and go to a culinary school.
“It is a great experience and if you’re wanting to go into culinary then this will help you out so much,” said Bogue.
Students can get an industry recognized credential from the National Restaurant Association, and are already getting culinary scholarships to colleges because of how much this pathway is setting them up.
“The program gives you a certificate to become a manager for restaurants after high school, so that’s cool that we already have things to set us ahead of other people and were just leaving high school,” said another culinary student Tristan Steele
Also on top of all of this the students can potentially get offered internships from the businesses they interact with.
“It is really fun to go there and learn new things about culinary,” said Roman Campa. “The pathway may not be what I plan on doing for my future but this definitely gives me a path that I can go to.”