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Nominee Name:  Triad Community Kitchen CC55 Students
Nominator Name:  Triad Community Kitchen
Nominee's outstanding commitment:  We wanted to nominate the students of Triad Community Kitchen's CC54 class because they became "accidental volunteers," but did so with such grace, humility and dedication that it can not be overlooked.

The students in this class were only in their 4th week of culinary instruction as part of Triad Community Kitchen's 13 week program when two hurricanes struck the United States, one right after another.

While typically students would still be learning knife skills and their way around a large, industrial kitchen, students quickly turned the Triad Community Kitchen classroom and teaching kitchens into a disaster response area, creating huge amounts of ready-to-heat food to be sent into the disaster zones.

The food they prepped, cooked, bagged and sent out with disaster response teams went to distressed communities throughout the Southeast. As the news was unfolding about the wide reach of Hurricane Irma, these students were in the kitchen with their sleeves rolled up and chef hats on, doing their small piece in a much larger disaster response. We hope they are very, very proud.
Nominee's outstanding accomplishments:  The students created 1,500 servings of ready-to-heat chicken and rice soup to be sent out in enormous bags with our partners at the Salvation Army Disaster Response Team. They came in early before the start of the regular instruction day and stayed late, getting a lesson in emergency response... and teamwork.

Nominee's special skills/qualities:  While only partially through their formal instruction at Triad Community Kitchen, these students took the skills they had thus far learned and followed recipes to create huge vats of food for people in need.

But it was the attitude with which they conducted themselves and the teamwork they exhibited that is so very exceptional. Cooking food in that amount takes great coordination-- chopping, cooking, bagging, sealing, and prepping to send out-- and to shift into high gear with virtually no warning and not even knowing where they food would go or who it would help took great character.

We are always proud of our Triad Community Kitchen graduates, but this class got a surprise lesson in disaster response and executed it with an integrity that makes us tremendously proud.
 
 
 
 
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