This past week I visited my mentee at Port Richmond High School. My mentee, Shannon, is one of the students in the class that basically cooks everything. She is not looking to go to college for cooking, but she is very good at it. The meal they made last week was stew fry. They prepared this meal by cutting up vegetables (peppers) one day, making the rice another day and cutting up the rest of the ingredients another day. The last day, Friday, was the day that they put everything together and it was incredible. I was shocked at how good these students were at cooking. They are all very young, 15 and 16 years old, and they can cook a meal better than most adults. Cooking is an essential trait that a person should have. Cooking isn’t just throwing cereal and milk in a bowl, it is knowing how to eat well with certain recipes and ingredients that are essential nutrients in a persons daily diet and these students really understand how to do it. This experimental learning project not only teaches my mentee, Shannon, about my knowledge of food and nutrition, but it also teaches me things about food that I never knew. Each week, Shannon will teach me how to make something new and I will notify her about why each ingredient is important to have in a meal. I feel as if this mentoring program will not only benefit Shannon and other students at the high school, but it will also help me and the rest of the Wagner College students in the program.