From Prep to Plate: Mastering Cooking and Cleaning!
Help me give my students new, color-coded cooking kitchen sets and cleaning supplies to keep the Culinary Kitchen organized and sanitized.
$4,314 goal
This project expired on October 8, 2025.
This project expired on October 8, 2025.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
In a dynamic culinary arts environment, structure and organization are as essential as skill and creativity. To support student success in mastering the fundamentals of cooking and maintaining a professional-grade kitchen, this project introduces color-coded kitchen sets and cleaning supplies for our culinary arts classroom.
The decision to implement color-coded tools is rooted in a vision of creating a clear, intuitive system that enhances learning, accountability, and sanitation.
By assigning specific colors to different tools, stations, or tasks (e.g., red for meat prep, green for produce, blue for cleaning supplies), students will easily understand and remember their responsibilities. This promotes efficient workflow, reduces cross-contamination, and reinforces industry-standard best practices.
Color-coded systems also support students with different learning styles by providing visual cues that make kitchen organization and hygiene more accessible and easier to manage. Ultimately, this initiative will create a more professional, structured, and engaging environment where students can confidently build the habits and skills they need for future success in culinary arts.
More than three‑quarters of 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
Never Before Funded250 students impacted
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