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Light Years from the Classroom to Career and College Training

My students need a Kitchen Equivalents Bingo Game and 6 DVDs on food garnishing, sanitation, the new food pyramid, food preparation and safety.

Mr. Crompton Hampton County High School

Hampton, SC Grades 9-12

I am the high school culinary arts chef instructor for a small country school district in South Carolina. We are also a priority school with three schools in the district. My food lab and class room are located about 4 miles from the high school. I instruct culinary arts I and II in basic to advanced culinary arts skills in career preparation and college training. My students are in 9th to 12th grade and most of them are classified as disadvantaged students and about 99% Afro-American. I have a large number of special education students mainstreamed in my program. These students need a lot of hands on and theory training to build skills for future employment.

There are several ways students obtain information. The old stand up in front of the students and lecture or write on the board are slowly slipping away. Multi -media equipment, demonstrations from professional people in the industry and colleges, computers, smart boards, and extensive research learning libraries are on the move in education. It takes videos and DVD’s to round our visual methods in reaching many students. Yes, we need up-to-date DVDs in our culinary art program to help our students fly and land on the correct career path! My small rural district is awesome and they have purchased me a TV, a fully working computer, and DVD player for the next school year.

The 15 year old videos do not reflect a time frame of today’s students can associate with. DVD’s are expensive and the six I have chosen are for two grant points, so I have chosen them to be able to help train students and add to topics that will not be completely covered in the states videos if I ever obtain them.  The kitchen equivalents bingo game will be played several times to build student skills in culinary arts.  After viewing the DVD on baking basics, the classes will go to the food lab and create some things from the training. They will also use principals learned from the sanitation, safety, and operational DVD’s they viewed before the hands on classes  After watching the DVD on Food Garnishing, the students will go to the food lab and recreate the professional skills viewed, and demonstrate skills learned in the theory class.  With the DVD on the new pyramid, they will watch the training and break up into groups and create a poster from each group on what food items we have in the shop and where it fits on the pyramid.

What kind of learning can be done in a classroom with one Internet access, a window 95 program,a Dell computer with no working CD drive, limited old videos, no working VCR, and a limited books to do a research projects. With the addition of the technology additions, I am suppose to get this fall, I really need DVD’s on food garnishing, sanitation, the new food pyramid, and several on food preparation and safety to reach new class of students coming in and to motivate the existing returning class and expose them to training they need before completing Culinary Arts II. With donors like you and the Donor’s Choose organization, I am out there every day trying to advance them and be on a Discover mission that will launch them into a career position or help them in culinary school.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

20 students impacted 10 donors

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Hampton, SC
Grades 9-12
College & Career Prep
Nutrition Education
Traditional School
Technology
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Mr. Crompton Hampton County High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

20 students impacted 10donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Basics of Kitchen Safety & Organization DVD Series • Nasco $129.95 1 $129.95

Food Preparation Skills & Techniques Series DVD • Nasco $129.95 1 $129.95

Food Safety: Would Your Kitchen Pass Inspection? DVD • Nasco $115.00 1 $115.00

Great Garnishes DVD • Nasco $107.50 1 $107.50

The New Food Pyramid DVD • Nasco $89.95 1 $89.95

Kitchen Equivalents Bingo Game • Sax Family & Consumer Science, Inc. $24.95 1 $24.95

Baking Basics Series DVD • Nasco $199.95 1 $199.95

Materials cost			$797.25
Vendor shipping charges			$79.73
Sales tax			$39.86
3rd party payment processing fee			$11.96
Fulfillment labor & materials			$9.00
Total project cost			$937.82
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$205.86
Total project goal			$1,143.68
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$1,143.68
7 Donors			-$571.84
Donations toward project cost			-$468.91
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$102.93
match offer			-$571.84
Match offer toward project cost			-$468.91
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$102.93
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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