Four local students representing the Clare-Gladwin Career
Center’s Culinary Arts class joined 55
teams of their peers from 19 career and technical education centers across
Michigan on March 17 and March 18 for the annual Michigan ProStart Competition
in Lansing. Hosted by the Michigan Restaurant Association Education Support
Foundation (MRA ESF),
Jenna
Dungerow of Gladwin and Jessica Swosinski of Harrison, along with Jaime
Phillips and Ashtyn Schultz of Beaverton, competed in multiple events that
tested their knowledge of the ProStart curriculum; a two-year program
for high school students that unites the classroom and industry to develop the
best and brightest talent into tomorrow’s restaurant and foodservice leaders.
The
first event was a “Jeopardy!” style knowledge bowl, sponsored by Lake Michigan
College. The question and answer event tested all four of the Clare-Gladwin
students’ knowledge of critically important issues of food safety and
sanitation.
Beaverton’s
Phillips and Schultz took part in the Nutrition and Marketing component
of the ProStart competition, which is designed to encourage the creation of
healthy menu items for restaurants. Students had to create a menu that meets
the National Restaurant Associations’ healthy dining criteria. In addition,
they also proposed alterations to an “unhealthy” meal to make it fit those same
healthy standards.
“The ProStart competition is important for a few different
reasons,” said Heidi Rocha, Clare-Gladwin Career Center culinary arts instructor.
“It builds off of our class curriculum and brings the students to a much higher
level of understanding and achievement. These are also real-world concepts that
they will use in their own lives and/or apply in hospitality-related
professions.”
Phillips and Schultz placed fourth in the Nutrition and
Marketing component and each received a $500 scholarship to Sullivan
University.
“I am very proud of my students for their hard work and
dedication,” Rocha said.
Culinary Arts is one of nine career and technical education
programs offered to local high school juniors and seniors at the Clare-Gladwin
Career Center, a program of the Clare-Gladwin RESD.
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