After securing first place in the 2024 Kansas ProStart Invitational – a culinary arts competition that was hosted in Wichita in March – four high school student chefs with Olathe Advanced Technical Center are headed to nationals in Baltimore, Maryland, next week.
The student chefs have prepared an Asian-inspired three-course meal, and are confident their dishes will be competitive at the national stage.
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Lily O’Shea Becker/KSHB“I know they’ll get up there in the top 10, and I’m hoping they can get up on stage so they can get a lot of accolades and everything,” said Philip Shaw, a chef instructor at Olathe Advanced Technical Center.
The twelve hours of practice outside of school each week has proven beneficial, as the team’s placement in the Kansas ProStart Invitational improved from last year, when the team placed third.
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