According to the American Heart Association, teaching youth how to prepare their own food will give them a skill they can use for a lifetime, they will be more likely to eat healthier as adults, and build self-confidence. The McLean County Extension Office collaborated with Family Resource and Community Education to provide the Super Star Chef three day cooking camp to children during the summer. Twenty children between the ages 9 to 18 attended this 3-day camp during the summer. Of these twenty children, nine had not attended the Super Star Chef Program before. Children who had attended the program before served in leadership roles that allowed them to help children who were struggling with specific skills and assist with teaching other children. The twenty students enrolled in the program received lessons on the food groups, MyPlate, and daily cooking lessons in which students worked together in groups to prepare healthy foods. Youth gained basic cooking skills such as food and equipment safety, knife safety, safe food handling, proper cutting techniques, reading a recipe, how to measure properly and basic nutrition. In the process, they used basic learning skills such as math, science and reading. After completing, the program 94% of children learn the correct way to hold a knife, the correct amount of fruit and vegetables that should be on MyPlate, and how to wash their hands. Other areas where children increased their knowledge was hot germs are transferred to food, how to read the nutrition label, how to dice vegetables. Following the three-day program parents reported their children helping more in the kitchen and cooking meals for their families using recipes and skills they learned from the class.