The DMACC Newton culinary program is
expanding. Right now, it's only open to
high school students, who can also earn
college credit. In the spring of 2014 the
program is open to anyone who wants
training in the fine dining industry. I
think there are people out there that
think you can just go into any type of
restaurant because you enjoy cooking or
because you have worked at any other
type of restaurant. In order to work
in a fine dining restaurant you need to
have good training DMACC Newton Campus
Culinary Arts program is great for the
people that live in the area because
it's close, the class sizes are small, and
we offer the same curriculum as they do
at Ankeny. We have a lot of
state-of-the-art equipment here. We have
two kitchens that we are able to use.
One of them is more of a homestyle
kitchen where the students have the
opportunity to work on different types
of cooktops from induction burners to
gas to electric. Then we go into the
larger commercial type kitchen where we
have proof boxes and dough dividers and
steamers and grills. So they can learn
all these different methods of cooking. I
was surprised that they had anything you
can do like this and I mean it's really
awesome that they let you do this. So, the
Career Academy is offered to high school
students that are juniors or seniors.
They come to the Newton campus and they
are able to take pretty much all of
their first year classes and then from
there they are able to go on to their
second year of the Culinary Arts program.
So, essentially by the time they're 19
they can have enough of the credits
under their belts to be able to graduate
from a two-year Culinary Arts program
