What:
Finals week at 嘿嘿视频 begins on stage for 80 food science students, who for a senior project have created a slate of wild new food products ranging from savory vegetable leathers to spoon-shaped, chai-laden cookies for stirring tea. Twenty teams will pitch their new food concepts and offer them for tasting as they compete for $20,000 in prizes, provided by Nugget Markets; the Culinary Institute of America鈥檚 Food Business School; and KitchenTown, a Bay Area food startup incubator.
When:
Monday, June 6, 3:30- 7:30 p.m.
- 3:30 鈥 introduction of judges
- 3:40 p.m. to 7:10 p.m. 鈥 three-minute team pitches
- 7:10 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 鈥 awards ceremony
Where:
Sensory Theater of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, 嘿嘿视频
Who:
Participants will include the 80 food science students competing in 20 teams, a judging panel of food and venture-capital executives, and Matthew Lange, course instructor. 鈥淭he first thing I tell students is that they can impact millions of lives by creating delicious new food products that also happen to be healthier and more sustainably produced,鈥 Lange says.
Visuals:
- Teams pitching their products and offering tastings
- Presentation of awards in Best Package, Most Delicious, Most Sustainable, Healthiest and Grand Prize categories
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A brief B-roll video clip of students working on their new food products in the kitchen laboratory is .
Background:
鈥淔ood Product Innovation and Development鈥 is a capstone-level course that introduces upper-division food-science students to the entire process of creating new food products. In just seven weeks, the students brainstorm ideas for a line of three new food products; develop the food items in a kitchen laboratory; and design packaging and labels that meet all federal guidelines, including health claims. The student teams also create a business plan that addresses sustainable production practices, marketing, pricing and profit margins, scale-up for commercialization, and potential return on investment. They can also earn credit by developing social-media campaigns about the creation of their products, which can be seen at and .
Driving and parking directions:
- Take Interstate 80 to the 嘿嘿视频 exit.
- At the end of the off-ramp, turn north onto Old Davis Road and drive toward the main 嘿嘿视频 campus.
- Pass the information booth on your left and continue straight ahead through the traffic circle.
- Immediately turn right onto Hilgard Lane.
- You can park in the parking structure on your left or in the adjacent parking lots.
- To park free, place a news media business card on the driver鈥檚 side of the dashboard.
- Walk from your vehicle back across Hilgard Lane to the complex of orange buildings, which is home to the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.
- The sensory theater is located in the two-story building at the northwest corner of the complex, next to Old Davis Road and the adjacent vineyard.
Media Resources
Pat Bailey, News and Media Relations, 530-219-9640, pjbailey@ucdavis.edu