~~With families busier and always on the go with little time to cook and prepare meals at home, the Bracken County 4-H and FCS felt the need to continue to offer the Super Star Chef Day Camp for the 3rd year in a row to local youth.  We feel the need to learn basic cooking skills is more important than ever.  The youth will have the skills and knowledge needed to help prepare healthy and nutritious meals. We feel that these youth need food and equipment safety, knife safety, safe food handling, proper cutting techniques, reading a recipe, how to measure properly, and basic nutrition.  Sixteen youth participated in the 3 day Camp for 5 hours each day.  In the process of the classes the youth learned basic learning skills such as math, science and reading.  Participants made a variety of dishes including muffins, fresh salsa, and fruit Kabobs. Overall, pre-post comparisons of participant responses to the assessment instrument show that the program enhanced participant understanding of the nutrition concepts covered in the program. Average total score on the test increased from 10.69 in the pre-test to 12.44 in the post-test.   The post-test also included eight (8) self-assessment of learning gains items. These items asked the participants to indicate the extent to which they agreed or disagreed that they learned the concepts described in each statement. About 94% of the participants agreed/strongly agreed that they learned how to wash my hands to remove germs; learned about the amount of fruits and vegetables they should have on their plates; learned the correct way to hold a knife for cutting; learned how to read recipes; and learned how germs can be transferred to food. Also, twelve participants (75%) plan to eat more fruits and vegetables after participating in the program.Several of the parents commented on how much the kids like coming to the camp and look forward to it again next year.