Happy Thanksgiving from Hospitality Institute of Ohio!

Last Chance to Submit: CTSO Community Service Events Due During November!

If you are enrolled in the Ohio Hospitailty CTSO, November is Community Service month. You are required to execute a community service event during the month. If you need ideas, please consult the guidebook HERE. When you are ready to submit your community service event, please do so HERE. Check out the schools below that have conducted thier community service projects for ideas!

At Polaris JVSD, students prepped and cooked for Polaris Career Center POF advisory council. 365 guests were fed a lavish buffet of house-made rigatoni bolognese, green beans and carrots, curry roasted cauliflower with lentil dahl, stuffed cabbage rolls, grilled chicken paprikash with spatzles, and Maryland crabcakes.

Tolles Career & Technical Center baked and donated baked goods to the Ronald McDonald House for their bake sale, where 100% of the proceeds go toward families and kids using their services.

Apollo Career Center hosted a local developmental disabilities group. They created 4 recipes utilizing items that could be found in a food pantry. These were low-cost items, mostly using canned food and limited fresh produce. They made: Chicken and Rice Casserole, Taco Soup, Stuffed Pepper Casserole, and Ground Beef and Cabbage. While doing thier demo, they talked about knife techniques, nutrition, sanitation, and safety.

What great events that give back to the community! The following schools still need to submit thier community service project before the month ends: Columbus Downtown, C-Tec, Dater, Ehove, Lancaster, Lorain, Masfield, Penta, South Western, Stowe Munroe, and Vantage. This is a requirement of the CTSO. Please submit before the end of the month, and begin brainstorming ideas for your December Community Service Projects.

Registrations for our Virtual Gingerbread Bash Competition Are Now Open - and it's FREE!

Wind down before the holiday with this fun and simple competition. Create any structure out of your homemade gingerbread recipe. Submissions will be accepted from December 1^st through January 9^th to get them in. All needed competition documents (rules, score sheets, and example recipe) as well as event registration are available via the Educator Portal here. Password: 2025*ProStart

Scholarship Application For Students Now Open!

Free money for your student's education! Please have your students fill out the Ohio Hospitality Scholarship Application HERE.

Some scholarships require a COA, while many do not.

Invitational Rules Are Now Out!

If you would like to get a jump start on all things invitational, the rules are posted in the Educator Portal HERE. Registration for the event will be available next week.

Mac & Cheese is back with a new twist!

The Ohio ProStart and Ohio Hospitality CTSO Mac & Cheese Competition, hosted by The American Dairy Association and The Hilton Columbus Downtown, is returning with a new twist! The initial competition will be held virtually, and the top 3 teams will move on to compete LIVE at the Ohio Prostart Invitational on March 10th. See who will prepare the tastiest mac in Ohio. Rules and registration are located in the educator portal here!

Educator Portal

The new educator Portal password is 2025*ProStart. Let us know if there are additional resources you would like to see.

Ohio Hospitality CTSO

All Student Waivers must be completed to use Ohio Hospitality as your CTSO. Link to the waiver is HERE
CTSO Handbook is HERE
Submit your CTSO Chapter Leaders so that we can send out the online training. The link to submit is HERE

The following schools still need to submit thier student leaders ASAP:

Columbus Downtown, Dater, Ehove, Lancaster, and Lorain.