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The Campus Kitchen is a place for students to bring their classroom learning from the classroom to the kitchen to the community and back again, bringing more depth to their learning experiences and great work to their neighborhoods.

We work with professors on campus to link Campus Kitchen work to the curricula of various fields of study, such as Nutrition & Dietetics, Marketing, Business, Non-Profit Management, and Sociology. By combining classroom learning with hands-on experience, students can apply what they've learned to real situations, and become more aware of the society around them. What these students create is awesome. They write grants; develop business assessment tools;
Alongside more formal service learning partnerships, we also work to engage students in ongoing reflection, community engagement, and leadership development through their work with the Campus Kitchen.

We like to think of ourselves as a leadership laboratory. Student volunteers come in, think of an idea, get some help on how to make it happen, and then do it. Afterwards, they figure out what worked well and what didn’t. If it worked, they put it into a kit for others to use, and then they send it out to our network.

The Campus Kitchens Project is unique in what it offers young people, because it relies on student energy in all of its operations, programming, and administration. The work doesn’t get done unless the students do it, so students take the challenge of that active leadership role.

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