Teen chefs can cook up scholarships
Creative and love to cook, here’s a chance to turn that combination into an opportunity to create your own tomorrow with a culinary education.
It could start with a tuition scholarship to the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of California in Sacramento.
The Art Institutes' Best Teen Chef Competition, now in its 13th year, is an opportunity for high school seniors in the U.S. and Canada interested in pursuing a culinary career to experience the excitement and discipline of the industry.
This year, for the first time, the Art Institutes are offering this opportunity to high school graduates with culinary ambitions as well as high school seniors.
Contestants can enter either the high school senior,the Best Teen Chef Competition, or high school graduate, Culinary Scholarship Competition, category and match their skills against others who share their passion.
Each participating Art Institutes school will name one first place winner in each category. A second place winner will also be named in the Best Teen Chef category at each participating Art Institutes school.
The winners will earn tuition scholarships: $4,000 for the Best Teen Chef winner and $1,000 for the second place winner in the high school senior category, and $1,500 for the first place winner of the high school graduate category.
“Students need both inspiration and education to be successful in the culinary field. The emerging culinarians who enter our culinary competitions show their inspiration as well as their passion for pursuing a culinary education. I’m very excited that this year we will offer the opportunity to earn a scholarship to high school graduates as well,” said chef Toussaint Potter, academic director of culinary arts for the International Culinary School at The Art Institute of California in Sacramento.
To be eligible to enter the competition, entrants must submit a completed entry and release form by Friday, Feb. 3, to the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of California, Sacramento.
Deadline for complete entries into the competition is Friday, Feb. 24.
Selected entrants will progress to local cook-off competitions at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of California, Sacramento on April 21.
To learn how to enter the Art Institutes' Best Teen Chef Competition for high school seniors and the Art Institutes' Culinary Scholarship Competition for high school graduates and to view the competition rules visit artinstitutes.edu/culinary or multivu.com/players/English/51391-art-institutes-best-teen-chef-and-culinary-competition.
The Art Institute of California, Sacramento, is one of the Art Institutes, a system of more than 45 education institutions located throughout North America. The Art Institutes system is America’s leader in creative education providing an important source for design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts professionals.
Wendy Schultz
Wendy Schultz has been a columnist for the Mountain Democrat since 2002 and a staff writer since 2005. She covers Placerville city events and City Council meetings, writes feature stories and reports on things of interest in El Dorado County.
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