hello everyone it's Nima and i'm back after not uploading a video since i guess two months ago.
i was very very busy in the past two months and i didn't have enough time and energy to record
edit and upload a video anyways i have some live updates for you guys and as you can see i'm not in
my own room and at the end of this video i will let you guys know where i am so let's get into
it. i competed in skillsusa and if you don't know what skillsusa is make sure to watch this video
i placed gold in the culinary arts competition in the state of vermont and when you place gold
in your steak competition you automatically go to the national competition i practice a lot for the
national competition like for two weeks straight i went to school to the hannaford career center and
i practiced for at least four hours per day each competitor was required to make an appetizer soup
and two entrees and in two in those two weeks of practicing i basically built and adjusted my menu
and the actual competition was two hours and ten minutes we also had plating windows so each course
had to be plated in five minutes and if it became like five minutes and five seconds five minutes
and ten seconds we would have get points deducted my competition was on june 16th and again because
of covet it happened virtually in each technical center in each state and i was on zoom with two
different cameras and i also had one on-site evaluator or on-site taster and one thing that
was different about this competition and the state competition it was someone was actually
tasting the food for the national competition but for the steak competition it was all virtual like
nobody tasted the food nobody did nothing it was all virtual but this one i had an on-site
evaluator chef joey buttendorf was my on-site evaluator and i basically wasn't that nervous
or like stressed about the competition like on actual day of the competition june 16th i was like
it wasn't like stress at all i mean i was stressed but not that much that i couldn't like control
myself and my chef instructor was like what the heck nemo i'm like more stressed than you are
and i had the competition it was 2 hours and 10 minutes as i said
and in my opinion it went really really really well anyways so the result ceremony
was on june 24th eight days after my competition culinary arts high school
on screen of your contest finalist congratulations to all of you for this accomplishment
our bronze medalist is noah belcher from kansas our silver medalist is
anson menser from new jersey and our gold medalist is Nima Mehregan from vermont
congratulations to all of you
so yes as you can see i placed gold in the skills usa culinary arts national competition and this
was literally the biggest accomplishment in my life so far alright so now i will let you guys
know where i am i'm in mohank mountain resort and i'm working in the kitchen here this summer
the experience has been amazing so far like every day that i'm working here i'm learning
something new and this is all that matters you know and i feel like it's an amazing starting
point for me before i go to college as some of you may know i'm going to the
cia culinary institute of america next school year fall of 2021 which is basically in five weeks
i'm super excited about that everything has been going the way that i wanted to and if
you guys have any questions any comments anything just leave a comment down below
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