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CAFÉ Update January 25, 2021

CAFE Updates
25 January 2021

 Technology Award

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A New Award

Thanks to Mercer Culinary, we are pleased to announce that a 2021 Technology Award will be offered to individuals/culinary programs that successfully introduced technology in their programs.
 
This Award is sponsored by Mercer Culinary who is proud to reach out to educators and to recognize their efforts instructing students in the complex world of technology and culinary arts.
 
What are your efforts and successes in this area?
 
For submission guidelines, click here.

 

6 Reasons to listen to the CAFÉ Talks Podcasts:cafe podcast logo final

  1. You are riding in your car and might like an alternative to talk radio.
  2. You are exercising with earphones already in your ears.
  3. You are looking for inspiration.
  4. You are looking for informative, inspirational guest speakers for your students.
  5. You are looking for professional development opportunities for your faculty…at no cost!
  6. You are/are not familiar with the topics covered and would like to learn more.
To see the listing of the CAFÉ Talks Podcasts, click here.
 
To sign up to receive notifications of new podcasts, click here.
 
To see a suggested podcast lesson plan on how to teach flavors, click here.

 

CAFÉ Membership

It’s time to sign up to support CAFÉ membership as CAFÉ looks to continue to support foodservice educators:
  • Free Monthly Magazine, “The Gold Medal Classroom”
  • Free bi-weekly CAFÉ Talks Podcasts with wide-range topics
  • As members, access to podcast lesson plans, discounts to CAFÉ events, and a free subscription to “The Journal for Culinary Education Best Practices”
  • Linking the foodservice industry to the foodservice classroom by offering sponsored awards for innovation, technology, sustainability, and educators of the year
  • Offering classroom resources from industry partners in our D.E.A.L. (Deal for Education and Learning) of the Week 
How are we doing? You can join as an individual, an institution or as an industry member.
 
We’re looking forward to in-person events beginning (possibly) in the fall of 2021 and definitely in 2022!

To join (and we hope you do!!), go to: https://www.cafemeetingplace.com/resource-center/membership

If you were a prior member and would like to renew your current membership, please go to https://www.cafemeetingplace.com/resource-center/membership and login to renew your current membership.

If you want to transfer from a previous Individual Membership to an Institutional Membership, please review the following instructions here.

CAFÉ 2021 Awards Program

idaho2021 Idaho Potato Commission Innovation Awards

CAFÉ is proud to be partnering with the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) once again as they sponsor the Innovation Awards for 2021.

This Award recognizes educators and/or programs at both the secondary and postsecondary levels who have shown to be innovative in their approaches to effective culinary arts education.

Click here for more information about the Innovations Award.

Kendall NLU RGB2021 Kendall College Entrepreneurship Award

Thanks to Kendall College for once again sponsoring the Entrepreneurship Award for 2021.

This Award identifies culinary programs that either (1) teach or encourage entrepreneurship in their programming or (2) implement revenue-generation and cost savings into their operations.

Click here for more information about the Entrepreneurship Award.

Sysco web2021 Sysco Educator of the Year Award

Thanks to Sysco for again sponsoring the Educator of the Year Award for 2021! This award is open to secondary and postsecondary educators as well as culinary educators working within the non-profit training sector. There will be two awards given.

For more information about the Educator of the Year Award, click here.

USB2021 Green Award

We are pleased to announce that the 2021 Green Award will be offered to individuals/culinary programs that emphasize sustainability or other “green” aspects in their programs.

This Award is sponsored by the United Soybean Board who is proud to reach out to educators and to recognize their efforts instructing students in the importance of agriculture in their selection of products and designing of menus.

Past winners have implemented aquaculture farms, gardens, farm-to-table menus, waste reduction and more!

For more information about the Green Award, click here.

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