‘Culineering’ Challenge Is a Great Way To Learn

For high school students to be most dialed into their educations, how they learn must be much more than just desk-centric, skill-and-drill lessons. There needs to be some ingenuity, some fun, an opportunity for those students to utilize their imagination and creativity.

An event hosted this past week at Oglebay Park Resort did just that.

High school teams from across West Virginia came to the resort for the fourth-annual Culineering Challenge, a competition that allowed both aspiring chefs and aspiring engineers to work together on a project.

In this competition, high school teams were tasked with engineering and building a model golf hole, then baking a cake that would serve as its putting green. Each team had guidelines to follow — incorporating state landmarks and a specific tea flav