(sound of swinging jazz)
"The Pastry Show is
a great way for students to showcase their 
work."
"Students in certain classes
within the Baking degree are required to
enter the competition.
For example in the chocolate class, they have 
to make
a platter of chocolates, and a chocolate
showpiece.
In the sugar class, they make sugar candies
and a chocolate showpiece.
In the cake decorating class, they make
a wedding cake
and or a special occasion cake
or a novelty cake, like the carved cakes that you see on the Food 
Network."
"This is a great opportunity
to see the creativity of
the students."
"We've had participation from
community colleges and other universities,
culinary schools across the state.  We've 
had
participants in the chef competition
from Florida all the way up to West Virginia,
so we're trying to grow this into a more 
regional event."
(grinding sound)
(sound of swinging jazz)
(cutting sound)
"We want to just take a moment to invite Mark 
Turner up who is our representative from US 
Foods
who is here and has a big role in this event and it's success."
(applause)
"For me, to be involved with a company that really 
supports a school like it does,
I'm very proud
to have been involved with Wake Tech."
"And of course we have a whole other list
of sponsors
on the back of the brochures, and if you would 
take a look at that,
whenever you're in one of these businesses,
please take a moment to thank them
for participating in events like this,
because
it makes a big difference for the community."
(more swinging jazz)
"OK, so have you been checking out the cake 
decorators in action?"
"The Cake Challenge is a live event
that is entertaining and fun for the public 
to see.
Each team is composed of two cake decorators.
They are required to finish a cake in two 
hours."
"Regardless of some random things, we have
some Atari, Atari stick,
Twister, just like
childhood games, some things you would maybe get 
at a birthday party
or holiday time."
"I'm just going to glue little decorations 
all over the cake.
So I have Kermit The Frog, and then we have rainbows
and corkscrews
and music notes and stars."
"The public loves seeing it - it's a lot like
what's on the Food Network,
it's a lot like what they dream about doing,
and the creativity that these decorators 
do is really, really fun to watch."
"This is awesome - it's so neat to see
art in the form of baked goods
and cakes.
I can't imagine trying to do this
and you can't erase.."
(more swinging jazz)
"And so the winner of the People's Choice 
Award
 - Kermit!
Courtney Leckey assisted by his sister Jill 
Leckey
Here's the really cool thing - I don't know 
if you're aware of this,
but you may be able to take one of those 
cakes home tonight
because we're going to auction them off."
"Who's going to be my first bidder at $75?"
(auction sounds) "$75, how about a hundred"
Anybody go to a hundred?"
"What a great night for our students,
what a great night for our community!
And what a great night for our community 
college,
how about that?"
"You watch this event, because I promise you, 
this thing
is going big!"
