Stem and Nutrition sessions are intended to foster ingenuity, creativity , create healthy eating, preparing home-cooked meals, trying new foods , encouraging family time, developing communication skills and having fun. Participants were parents, elementary and middle school youth. Participants received kitchen safety guide, clean kitchen checklist , informational materials , and healthy recipes. Youth did experiments with fermentation process, learned about the process of dehydrating and made ice cream from scratch. Each activity required participants to follow along while agent demonstrated. All 30 participants were from Franklin County.

Stem and Nutrition sessions allowed youth to develop cooking skills ,cooking safety , make healthier food choices, gained a better understanding of nutritional information, encourages teamwork, experimentation and many youth tried new foods they had never tried before.

Comments from participants.

I learned the importance of following recipe and what could happen if you miss a step.

I enjoyed the the experiments and learned about the fermentation process.

I learned the importance of knife safety and how to dice vs cutting.