ProStart Mock Competition & Team Members

Congratulations to our new ProStart team members!

Culinary Team :
Emma Bestul, Emilee Hendricks, Natalie Nickerson, & Destiny Prendiville
Management Team:
Grant Bachman, Bailey Baron, &
Morgan VandenLangenberg

 

Breast Cancer Family Foundation Helps Save Lives

Stacie Hackl, Executive Director & Community Educator, from the Breast Cancer Family Foundation shared her story of breast cancer survival and cancer reduction strategies with Family Foods & Wellness students. 

Stacie provides a much needed powerful message to students about the importance of early detection and how lifestyles chosen now can impact the rest of their lives.  If you haven't done so, I highly encourage everyone to check out the Breast Cancer Family Foundation web-site for additional resources and opportunities to support their organization.

In addition, please check out the YouTube video "My Sixteen Year Old Me" below and share with your family and friends on Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else that will help in spreading this important message of the crucial consequences connected with lack of early detection.

Pumpkin Carving Challenge

If you cannot see the form below, please click here .  Also, special shout out to Bop's Bistro in De Pere, WI for donating our much needed last pumpkin!  

Cake Challenge Voting Complete! Entry #6 takes the cake (literally)

Crazy Corn

Food Science students turn the traditional candy corn into a science experiment about non-crystalline candy.

Under the Sea Cake Challenge: Voting now open!

If you cannot see the form below, click here

Twinkie Torture

I first have to say that I have a soft spot in my heart for Twinkies, simply because my Grandma Rosie had a "Twinkie Drawer," that was always stocked with Hostess products when we came to visit.  This set aside and my nutritionally-minded brain taking over, my Food Science students were able to explore this beloved, yet overly processed, food item by creating and implementing an experiment of their choice using the scientific method.  The results? We found it won't catch on fire (despite having a torch directly on it), a microwave will turn it black within minutes, the white filling turns to yellow goo when heated, AND it can be dropped 2 stories onto concrete without any damage.  

Definitely food for thought...