Enter The Art Institutes Best Teen Chef Competition 2009

Something worth getting fired up about.

Download the Best Teen Chef Competition Brochure 

The International Culinary Schools at The Art Institutes is joining with Food Network in a search for the high school senior with the burning passion and raw talent to score the title of 2009 Best Teen Chef. The top winner earns a full-tuition scholarship to one of the more than 30 Art Institutes locations offering culinary programs. Other winners earn partial-tuition scholarships.

The 2009 Best Teen Chef also gets to be "Intern for a Day" in the Food Network Kitchens in New York City, complete with a studio tour, dinner for two at a Food Network chef's restaurant, a library of Food Network Kitchens cookbooks, and an appearance in a one-minute feature of the Best Teen Chef Competition.

So if you can take the heat, then come to our kitchen. You might just cook up a winner.

Will You Be This Year's Best Teen Chef?

The Art Institutes Best Teen Chef Competition is a chance for competitors from across the United States and Canada to prepare a predetermined menu and have their work judged by a panel of professional chefs.

Winners earn tuition scholarships to The International Culinary Schools at The Art Institutes (see official rules below for details), where students learn from experienced chefs in professional kitchens.

Selected contestants begin their quest to become Best Teen Chef at local cook-off competitions, held at each participating Art Institutes location on March 14, 2009.

First-place local winners will compete in the national finals and face off on May 9, 2009 to compete for tuition scholarships and the coveted title of Best Teen Chef.

Ready To Enter?
The Best Teen Chef Competition is open to high school seniors in the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec) graduating in 2009 with a minimum 2.0 cumulative grade point average.

Entry Requirements:
To be eligible to enter the Competition, first submit a completed Entry & Release form by February 6, 2009 to a participating Art Institutes school offering a Culinary Arts program. The school you choose is the location you plan to attend, and will be the location you will represent if you progress in the Competition. Next, by February 20, 2009, submit to the same school a recipe in standardized recipe format, an optional original photo of the prepared recipe, a copy of your current high school transcript, and a 250-word essay explaining why you would like to study culinary arts at one of The Art Institutes schools.

Download the Best Teen Chef Competition Brochure

Download the Best Teen Chef Competition Official Rules and Regulations 

Download a sample standardized recipe form