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Kind Kitchen Summer Camp

Scholarship application

What to Expect

Session 1: June 16–18 All About Doughs
Session 2: June 30–July 2 Biscuits, Butter & Jam
Session 3: July 7–9 All About Ice Cream
Session 4: July 14–16 Jams, Jellies & Preserves
Session 5: July 21–23 Pasta Making
Session 6: July 28–30 Custards, Cheese & Crepes
Session 7: August 4–6 (Eggs: All Things)

A three-day culinary immersion designed to teach middle and high school students foundational cooking skills through themed sessions.

Each session integrates culinary technique with STEM concepts, socio-emotional learning, and real life skills. This is not a cooking class — it is a rigorous, hands-on culinary education experience where participants stand, cook, write, reflect, and grow for five hours a day.

THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE APPLYING

  • Can stand and be actively engaged and focused for five hours (9 AM to 2 PM)

  • Can follow multi-step directions in order

  • Is comfortable using sharp objects (knives, peelers, zesters) with instruction

  • Will be writing — journaling every day with full sentences, minimum grade-level writing with descriptors, painting a picture with words (they can also draw)

  • Can work collaboratively with others, in small group setting

  • The ability to clean up after themselves - Our program has always had the fundamental rule that “No one leaves until everything is clean”

  • Will be reading and following recipes

  • Has a love for cooking OR a genuine curiosity about learning

  • Is ready for a rigorous, hands-on experience — this is not passive learning

  • Understands that this is a space where everyone is working out their ideas out loud and you don’t get to “Yuck their Yum”

  • These are our Basic Duties for young cooks in our program

While we believe even young person should be curious about cooking and have the space to learn, grow, and develop. This summer is a little different from normal programming - we only have 3 days and five hours daily to deep drive into the science and mechanics of cooking.

How your young cook chooses to show up in the space will impact every other students experience.

PLEASE READ BELOW AND OUR FAQ BEFORE APPLYING

Things About Summer

As everyone arrives, we take time to settle in, get comfortable, and begin connecting with those around us. The journey starts here.

Program Time

9:00 am – 2:00 pm

Program  Cost

The Kind Kitchen Summer Institute is $360 per session (3 days).

All payments are nonrefundable.

Allergens

We cannot accommodate food allergies at this time due to limited kitchen space.

Our recipes include gluten, dairy, eggs, and various proteins. If your child has food allergies, please do not apply.

We want every participant to be safe, and we cannot guarantee an allergen-free environment in our current space. We are a nut-free program.

Program Expectations

The Kind Kitchen Summer Institute is delivered in English.

A water bottle (required), comfortable closed-toe shoes, hair tied back, no dangling jewelry. We provide aprons, all tools, and all ingredients. They will also need something to write with — we provide journals.

What does a typical day look like?

Camp runs 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Every day: arrival and journaling, lesson and demonstration, a break with healthy snacks and mini-lessons, hands-on cooking, eating what they made together, group reflection, cleanup, and pickup between 1:40–2:00 PM.

Snacks are provided (AM and PM). Lunch is what they cook that day.

Students will have evening writing assignments

Cause for Immediate Release

We understand that food can fall on the floor but it shouldn’t stay in the floor

Not being able to complete our “Basic Duties

Bullying, uncomfortable, or unsafe behavior

We will ask your young cook to leave immediately

All payments are nonrefundable.