4-H Florida Food Challenge Volunteers

Help lead a team of 3 - 4 youth members as they prepare to compete in the Florida Food Challenge and learn the basics of cooking and nutrition. The 4-H Food Challenge is a contest that provides a fun, yet challenging, food-focused learning opportunity for youth ages 8 to 18, (as of September 1st of the current 4-H year). Youth work in teams of 3-4 youth, of the same age division, to create a dish using a predetermined set of ingredients and cooking utensil/equipment. First, each team plans and prepares one of the randomly assigned dish while being judged on their food safety skills, teamwork, and ability to manage time and resources. Then youth present their finished dish, deliver a five-minute presentation, and answer questions about their dish to a panel of judges. Meetings will be held once a week in the fall dates to be determined.