IB Iron Chef, a school-wide project to raise money and fight for world hunger, will most likely be held in spring to raise money and awareness around hunger issues.

IB Iron Chef is a student-driven project. Students are given the opportunity to sign up as a ticket salesman, decoration staff member, or a chef. Students can sign up once an actual date is set.
The original date for IB Iron Chef was Jan. 29 but due to snow was rescheduled. The new anticipated date for the competition is March 13. However, the date is still officially to be determined.

“We need to find a date where we can find space and the entire school is not going to disappear,” IB coordinator Marie Turner said. “It’s really hard to find that date in spring because everyone has their senior night and this or that.”

IB Iron Chef features a cooking competition followed by a community tasting.

“If you want to be a chef [in the event], you have a two hour window and you’ll be cooking with a team of anywhere from two to four up in the culinary room,” history teacher Rebecca Eisenburg said. “Then you bring it downstairs to the cafeteria and you serve it.”

The event provides NHS hours and CAS opportunities for creativity, action, and service.

“They have these CAS opportunities for creativity, action, and service in the midst of a single event,” Turner said. “The cooking actually qualifies as action, and we have Ms. Hope to thank for that. If [you] do any of the decorating [or] if you are creating any of the marketing materials [and] you’re doing the marketing, [then] we consider that the creativity. And the service, almost all these hours can count and really be classified as service if you want because all of these hours are going go towards Oxfam.”

To learn more about IB Iron Chef, contact Marie Eisenburg.