Sanger High School unveils new culinary arts classroom

SANGER, Calif. (KFSN) -- Over the summer, Sanger High School "cooked up" a caller abstraction for students to get hands-on culinary training.

From the pots and pans to the aprons, the country feels similar a moving kitchen.

The caput chef, besides known arsenic the culinary instructor, is Desiree Domenici.

Having worked reddish carpet events, including the Grammys and Oscars, she knows the constitution of a real-world kitchen.

"So it, generally, is precise real, from the three-compartment scenes to the precise tiny laboratory stations," Domenici said.

The country hasn't ever looked similar this.

Over the summer, large upgrades were made.

Just inquire Senior Makayla Martin.

"A full 360. Completely different," Makayla said.

Administrators accidental different than the cooking stations, conscionable astir everything other is marque new.

Previously, students sat astatine desks.

Now, they're astatine prep stations.

A unrecorded camera provides a birds-eye-view for students arsenic Domenici works astatine the front.

Makayla took 2 years of culinary courses and present works arsenic a teacher's adjunct successful Domenici's class.

She says the updates springiness the country much of a realistic feel.

"Now, it's similar you're really successful the industry, successful a restaurant, which is truly bully for the students who particularly privation to spell into the edifice authorities oregon the culinary industry," Domenici said.

Sanger Unified Area Superintendent Kirstin Coronado says the territory worked with Valley ROP to unafraid a assistance for the upgrades.

Then, the territory attraction crews worked passim the summertime to bring it to life.

Coronado says these spaces are needed to hole students for their aboriginal careers.

"We similar to pridefulness ourselves successful providing multifaceted types of opportunities for each students, due to the fact that we privation students to beryllium capable to spell into the world, into the occupation unit with a assortment of antithetic backgrounds," Coronado said.

The Superintendent for Valley ROP Fabrizio Lofaro says the extremity is to springiness students the accidental for workplace learning from manufacture professionals.

"So each of that sets them apart, due to the fact that they cognize what the manufacture wants, what the standards are, however to, you know, behaviour yourself, however to train, however to bash each of that stuff," Lofaro said.

Domenici says portion immoderate students travel successful lone knowing however to marque cereal and milk, by the clip they leave, they person important room cognition and are acceptable to footwear disconnected their vocation successful culinary arts.

"They cognize however to clean, they cognize astir sanitation, weapon safety, weapon handling," Domenici said. "By the extremity of the year, and if they instrumentality this people my 2nd twelvemonth for advanced, they're like, 100% acceptable for industry."

Students get to showcase what they learned successful the schoolroom astatine skills competitions.

Makayla has 4 antithetic competitions coming up this year.

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