Culinary students whip up dinner, pastries for SkillsUSA contest

EVIT is hosting the SkillsUSA Region 3 Conference on Saturday. About 300 students from the area will compete in a variety of career and technical education areas, including video productions, masonry, criminal justice, automotive, cosmetology, and advertising design. More than 200 of those students are from EVIT!

All the students competing in the culinary contests are from EVIT, so they decided to hold their event a day early.


Culinary students had to demonstrate their knife skills and cook a chicken vegetable soup, a sauteed chicken breast and buttermilk biscuits.


Commercial Baking students baked a variety of treats: bread, rolls, danishes, coffee cakes, tarts, cookies and biscuits.


And other students competed in a restaurant management competition in which they memorized a menu and set, hosted, served and bussed tables, all while focusing on customer service.

The top students will go on to compete in the SkillsUSA Arizona Championships in April.