To say this was a “SWEET!” learning project for SSCS 7th and 8th graders would be quite an understatement. This April these middle schoolers in Rachel Ferreira’s Family & Consumer Sciences classes competed in the New York State Agriculture in the Classroom Ice Cream Challenge. The Ice Cream Challenge allows students to develop their own ice cream recipe, identify their target audience, create marketing materials for their flavor combinations, and learn about the dairy processing industry in their community. They also get to compete against other schools for cash prizes.
Seventh graders came up with a concoction called Boom-Choco-Lot which featured French vanilla ice cream, brownies, cookie dough and hot fudge. Not to be outdone, eighth graders invented Trail Blazer which combined ice cream, chocolate chips, smashed pretzels with just the right amount of marshmallow fluff and caramel. On Tuesday, students and staff were invited to visit their ice cream displays, try their new flavors and vote for best taste (It was a tie), most original idea (Boom-Choco-Lot won) and best marketing elements (won by Trail Blazer). Given the nature of this assignment, I think it’s safe to say that everyone was a WINNER!
