2020 Real Food for Kids Culinary Challenge Team Registration

The Real Food for Kids’ Culinary Challenge is an annual competitive event:

• designed to showcase the talent and creativity of students in middle and high school Family and Consumer Sciences and Culinary Arts programs.

• offering a competitive culinary experience for students and the opportunity to network with food industry professionals.

• providing an unparalleled opportunity for students to directly influence school meal programs with delicious, appealing foods that meet federal guidelines.

• complementing academic objectives with valuable, goal-directed experience in research, time and financial management, creative and critical thinking, collaboration and communication.
  

TERMS OF REGISTRATION

• Teams must download the Culinary Challenge Guideline bundles at realfoodforkids.org/team-docs and thoroughly review these documents.
  

• Team Registration opens September 11, 2019 and closes October 9, 2019.

• Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Schools may register up to two (2) teams in total; only one (1) Lunch Team per school is permitted.
  

• Lunch teams will be capped at 12 teams. Showcase teams will be capped at 10 teams in each category (Breakfast or Snack). Teams registering after the cap will be placed on a waiting list.
  

• Teams have the opportunity to withdraw their registration without penalty up until November 5, 2019. Schools whose teams withdraw after November 5 may* not be permitted to participate in the Culinary Challenge the following year (*reviewed on a case by case basis). Teams on the waiting list will be notified November 6 if spaces have become available.

• Teams must have a minimum of two (2) students and no more than four (4) students from the same school.

• Names of official team members must be provided by January 29, 2019 to meet publication deadlines.

CONTACT

Mary Porter, mporter@realfoodforkids.org