Trying to reach youth audience with SNAP-Ed Assistant for cooking experiences during the pandemic. All Garrard County students have Chrome Books for their classroom work and use the format, Google Meets. Collaborating with school administrators and the Community Education Director, we set up a Google Meets bi-weekly cooking school with an international flare. Basing the educational component on Teen Cuisine curriculum and using or creating recipes with individual countries' flavors, each week's program featured a demonstration of the recipe  and info about the nutrition, preparation or meal planning component of each recipe. The recipes were sent directly to the participants before the class each week to allow purchasing the ingredients ahead of time.  

Pictured is one student after she prepared the Peruvian flavored potato hash, "Peruvian Potato Dish", during the second class.

Our school collaborator shared what she heard from parents, "The parents who participated really liked it, as did the kids. They WOULD do it again. One parent commented that it was nice to have something different to do with her daughter on our cooking nights." 

Pictured: conducting Cooking Class via Google Meets with 3 cameras.