Kelly’s Korner 2 highlights Primed & Prepped: A Hospitality Management/Culinary Arts Mentoring and Job Training Program (P&P) located at the Bayview YMCA. Kelly is the Founder/Program Director, of this incredible program that is a gateway to higher education. We provide information and access to the types of education and training that leads to meaningful employment in the Hospitality Management/Culinary Arts industry.
Don Brown, Concierge of Nema Apartments gave an incredible and memorable tourexplaining the importance of customer service. The field trip was a part of their career awareness in Hospitality!
Nema is noted for their indoor/outdoor experiences
The Skyline Terrace on the 24th floor had a panoramic view of the city....breath taking!
The words printed on the walls are names of movies made in San Francisco...see the Joy Luck Club!
Watch P&P Students Cut A Whole Chicken!
When Chef Berlin speaks....students listen!
They were so eager to learn how to cut this chicken!
Great job!
LIGHTS ON! AFTERSCHOOL
A PROJECT OF THE AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE
It is an open house event with food, fun & entertainment. An opportunity to showcase our Youth & Teen Programs to the community!
Chef Berlin giving instructions before P&P serve the community
Tacine Parker, Associate Director at the Y and Chef Berlin talk to students from Carver Elementary as they wait to be served
The line kept getting longer and longer!
During Lights On P&P students did a demonstration cutting fruits. Parents, guardians and community supporters where in the background watching
P&P students, Chef Berlin and Steve Henderson, Head of School at San Francisco Flex Academy High were several of the P&P students attend!
P&P student finishing up the fruit to serve to the Lights On guest!
P&P student with his Grandmother!
TEAM WORK...WELL DONE P&P!
We are seeking interested young men of color
14-19 years of
age to participate in this exciting new program .
Primed &
Prepped Program begins January 13- March 19, 2015
Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and some Saturdays
4:30-7:00pm.
Class
size is limited so hurry!
For more information about Primed &
Prepped contact Kelly Armstrong at the Bayview YMCA (415) 822-7728 or
email karmstrong@ymcasf.org.
We decided to back track a bit to share some incredible experiences that happened before Primed & Prepped graduated.
WHO WILL BE P&P'S IRON CHEF?
We had a visit from Tannis Reinhertz, CCSF Department Chair of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies
during our career awareness session. Her visit exasperated the
competitiveness of these two students so they challenged one another to an Iron Chef Competition. The Big Face Off!
Red Team
Blue Team
Teams were set and posters created to reflect each team! The Red Team and The Blue Team.
The room was being prepared for the competition. Kevin and John made sure everything was in place and ready to go!
Primed & Prepped students sit in our conference room along
Chef Berlin consulting with Blue Team while one of the judges, Briam Jacobsohn looks on
with the judges before the competition begins
The Blue Team
The Red Team
Meet the Judges!
Left-Gina Former, California State Director for The Trust for Public Land, Georgette Nelson, Inside Sales Representative for Green Leaf Produce, Ron Ng, Chef Instructor for City College of San Francisco Culinary Program, Bairam Jacobshon, Kitchen Supervisor of Zynga,
The Red Teams dish-Chicken stuffed with shrimp and greens along
with a Thai basil fruit salad
The Blue Team's dish- Salmon over jasmine rice with a veggie salad
After sampling both dishes ,the judges had the hard task of selecting a winner
Chef Berlin sharing words of encourage to both teams before the winner was announced!
The Red Team were the winners!
A BIG thank you to the Judges, YMCA Staff and Kudos to all P&P students!
The Inter Continental's Ultimate Clash-Five Hotels, Five Student Chefs.
The student chefs where from InterContinental Hotel's in Buckhead Atlanta, Chicago Magnificent Mile, New York Times Square, San Juan Puerto Rico and San Francisco. It was a real honor for P&P students to be invited to this competition immediately following theirs. It gave them the opportunity to see it done on a completely different level. The ice sculptor in the photo was breath taking in person!
Before the contest began, Peter Koehler, InterContinental GeneralManager, acknowledged the winners of P&P Iron Chef Competition.
Chef Berlin made it a point to work around each Chef's station with P&P to give details about the food they were sampling to help them make educated decisions while they were voting for the winning Chef.
The food was fantastic and P&P were the special guests with all eyes on them!
Casey Neuburger, Director of Human Resources (with tie), is a huge P&P supporter!
The $5k winner is Victor Bonano Ortiz, student chef from Puerto Rico
P&P students all voted for Chef Ortiz so they were thrilled when he won!
The other student chefs take a well deserved bow!
As the evening winded down, P&P were presented with gift from the InterContinental! They were thrilled because each box had their names on it which impressed touched the young men deeply!
P&P thanks the InterContinental for such an educational and fun learning experience!
We are seeking interested young men of color
15-19 years of
age to participate in this exciting new program .
Primed &
Prepped Program begins September 30- November 20, 2014
Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and some Saturdays
5:00-7:30pm.
Class
size is limited so hurry!
For more information about Primed &
Prepped contact Kelly Armstrong at the Bayview YMCA (415) 822-7728 or
email karmstrong@ymcasf.org.
