The West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) is pleased to announce the nine career technical education (CTE) teams participating in the Third Annual Culineering Challenge: Bake and Quake event. The challenge is modeled after the Netflix original series Baking Impossible. The 2024 competition is Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 8 a.m. at Mountwest Community and Technical College (1 Mountwest Way, Huntington, West Virginia 25701).
The CTE Culineering Challenge allows multi-disciplinary teams to use engineering, culinary and marketing expertise to design and produce an edible structure that can withstand the rigors of the competition. This year, teams will bake and assemble structures that are at least 40 inches tall. Each structure will undergo challenges that test durability and overall build quality.
Baking Impossible Season 1 Winner Sara Schonour learned about the CTE competition while living in Boston. She contacted WVDE Assistant Superintendent Clinton Burch and asked to be involved in this year’s event. She will serve as a head judge of engineering and has facilitated her former cast members to mentor teams through the process. Several of them will travel to West Virginia for the event.
Teams
- James Rumsey Technical Institute (Berkeley)
- Huntington High School/Huntington East Middle School (Cabell)
- Marion County Technical Center (Marion)
- Mercer County Technical Education Center (Mercer)
- Wheeling Park High School (Ohio)
- Spring Valley High School (Wayne)
- Hundred High School (Wetzel)
- Wetzel County Technical Education Center (Wetzel)
- Wyoming Career & Technical Center (Wyoming)
Teams submitted a video detailing team composition, rationale for selection, creativity and originality of design, team dynamics and how culinary and engineering programs will be incorporated into the design…