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Martial Arts Business Success Tips: How to Structure and Teach Intro Courses

The martial arts business industry is rife with “business experts” offering advice on starting and running your own martial arts school. And, it seems every one of the “gurus” has their own advice on what procedures you should follow when enrolling a new student.

One-week intros, two-week intros, “no-intro” school tours, group intros… it’s enough “intro-info” to make your head spin. While I can’t really speak to what other schools are doing, I can share what has worked well in my schools over the last fifteen years. It’s an approach that I discovered mostly through trial and error, and that I’ve fine-tuned over the last ten years.

How to Use Introductory Courses to Increase Your Enrollments

During the “school months” of August through April, you’ll want to sell both a 1-week and a 1-month intro program (includes a free student uniform), to encourage people to try out classes (we price ours at $19 and $77 respectively, but charge what you feel is a fair price). The introductory course should include the student’s group classes for the length of the course.

Start each student off by scheduling a 20-minute private lesson with them, usually the evening before or the evening of their first group class.

The Initial Lesson… What You Should Cover

During the private lesson, you should cover the things a student would need to understand in order to feel like they know what’s going on during their first group class. In our experience, this seems to be way more important for retention and conversion than just focusing on teaching them “sizzle” techniques.

So, cover how to line up, how you bow in or start class, and proper etiquette – but without belaboring the topics.

Then, you should teach a few basic moves that are representative of your beginner’s curriculum. For example, in our kid’s program we teach a modernized version of Korean Moo Duk Kwan Tae Kwon Do… so, in an intro lesson for a child we teach horse stance, how to chamber the fist, middle punch, high block, fighting stance, front kick, and an escape from a hold. (Hint: If you use a rotating curriculum, choose techniques that are in the current beginner’s rotation.)

It’s also important to use an extra helping of positive reinforcement and encouraging remarks while you’re conducting the introductory lesson. This is an important consideration for students who are new to martial arts. Success for new students is greatly dependent on their confidence, so spend some extra effort on finding ways to offer your new students some sincere praise and encouragement.

Wrapping Things Up at the End of the First Martial Arts Lesson

Always finish by awarding the student their white belt (or you could use hand wraps if you’re a kickboxing school, or the official class t-shirt – use your imagination here), and congratulate the new student on a job well done (with kids, write their name on their belt – it’ll help you if you forget during their first week).

By this time, you should have developed some rapport with the student, and their parent(s) if the student is a child. This will help with retention and conversion to a regular membership later. If you can get them to finish their intro course, most of your new students will enroll before their introductory course is up.

In Closing… Some Final Tips To Help Improve Your Martial Arts Business Skills

If you really need to boost your enrollment (maybe your attrition rate jumped up, or several new students were promoted, etc.) you can offer to waive the registration fee for anyone who enrolls before the end of their introductory course. Try to let the student know this option exists at the time of their first lesson, as it will help boost your enrollment rates.

Finally, I’d just like to say that martial arts business procedures don’t have to be complicated. And, even though there are a lot of so-called experts out there who are telling you that starting and running your own martial arts school is something akin to rocket science, all you really need is a simple system for handling the most basic and routine tasks in your school.

If you’d like to read more articles on martial arts business topics, go to StartingAMartialArtsSchool.com.

What do you think of when you hear “Haitian art”?

Depending on your level of familiarity with Haitian art, you may think of folk art paintings on canvas. Or you may think of nothing at all.

If you haven’t heard of Haitian metal drum art, you’re in for a delight. Metal drums, the 55-gallon ones used for transporting oil or other products, are transformed into fanciful designs ranging from trees and flowers, birds and animals, to people, angels, and Biblical scenes.

Although some pieces are made from new oil drums, usually they are recycled ones purchased near the port in the capital city of Port-au-Prince and brought to the neighboring town of Croix-des-Bouquets by handcart or on top of a “tap-tap” (taxi). Croix-des-Bouquets is the center of the Haitian metalwork movement, and many metal drum artists have their workshops there.

Metal drum art in Haiti began in the early 1950s with blacksmith Georges Liautaud. In his humble shop, Liautaud had been making and repairing tools and creating simple metal crosses for the graves in the Croix-des-Bouquets cemetery.

American teacher DeWitt Peters, who opened Le Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince in 1944, encouraged Liautaud to expand into the creation of decorative metal sculptures. A few talented men apprenticed under him, and the tradition has continued; a metal drum artist will apprentice others, who will branch out and go into business themselves. Peters provided exhibition as well as instruction space.

To create these works of art, the artist first removes the top and bottom of the drum and places them inside the cylinder along with dried banana or sugar cane leaves. He sets the leaves on fire to burn away any paint or other residue from the drum. After the metal has cooled, the artist cuts the cylindrical drum from top to bottom, then pounds it into a flattened rectangle of approximately three by six feet.

The artist draws the design onto the metal sheet with chalk, then cuts it out with a mallet and chisel. Using these and other simple tools, he pounds the various decorative patterns into the metal, including areas that are concave and convex; he creates intricate patterns by hammering in bumps of different heights. Some pieces have three-dimensional designs. Some are very colorful, while others remain metallic in appearance.

The detail on these works of art must be seen and touched to be appreciated.

The artist signs the finished design and coats it with a protective varnish. Many art lovers prefer the art to be aged with rust, then sealed afterward. In either case, the pieces can be displayed indoors or out.

Used oil drums made into beautiful works of art. Who’d have thought?

I was once one of those people that always used recipes. I was afraid to venture away from those wonderful cards and comforting pieces of paper with amounts, ingredients, and instructions. I thought I needed to be told exactly how to make something; I wouldn’t increase, decrease, or substitute anything.

After awhile, I became tired of the confinement from those 4×6 cards. I began venturing into a new world – a world without recipes. I started by substituting ingredients, one vegetable for another. Then I started adding spices. Now, I view myself as a full-blown “cook”; I have no problem making dinner without a recipe. Gaining this culinary freedom can be done step by step.

Start by viewing cooking as two things – a hobby and a science experiment. Like with any hobby, the first few times you complete a project it may not turn out exactly how you expected, but you keep trying until it does. In science, you create a hypothesis, test the hypothesis by doing the experiment, and then observe what happens and come to a conclusion. If your conclusion leads you to another hypothesis, you try it again.

Cooking should be viewed the same way. Throw the ingredients together, taste the result, and decide how it is. Like a hobby, if it doesn’t work the first time, try again. I often make meals and critique afterwards, asking myself, “What flavors are missing? Is the consistency right? What things would I add or remove next time to make it taste better?”

Granted, if you always use recipes venturing into the unknown world of cooking without them can be intimidating. Below I’ve listed a few suggestions for ‘baby steps’ toward cooking on your own.

- Substitute, add, or remove vegetables (and eventually other ingredients as well). This is one of the easiest things to do. If you don’t like onions and the recipe calls for them, take them out. If the recipe calls for corn and you like peas, try substituting. If what you’re making might be tastier with some broccoli, throw it in.

- Know what you like. This may seem simple, but know what you like. If you’re constantly coming across a flavor that appeals to you, be able to figure out what that flavor is. One of the best tricks I have learned is the ability to taste something and tell what spices are in it. To do this, see the next tip.

- Use your nose. As humans we often neglect our sense of smell, which can be so helpful when cooking. Often if the dish I’m preparing ‘needs something’, I open my spice cupboard and start sniffing. The smells of spices go together, so trust your sense of smell and you’ll come across what you need.

- Know your spices. In science, you often gather information and conduct research. Do the same with your spices – know which spices often go together and what types of cuisine use which spices.

- Get creative. Much like other hobbies, creativity is the key. Don’t be afraid to get creative in your cooking either. My sister-n-law roasts squash with cinnamon and chili powder. I wouldn’t have thought to put those two spices together, but the outcome was delicious.

- Trust yourself. The more you do this, the better you’ll get. In the meantime, have some frozen pizzas and sandwich makings on hand just in case.

Be confident! Cooking without recipes or even using recipes as guidelines rather than strict instructions can open you up to a wonderful world of culinary freedom. You will soon find that you can create tastier meals step by step.

As a good chef knows, you can enhance any culinary creation by adding your own personal touches, i.e. certain special ingredients to any simple, base recipe. Pastas are a great example of this. As are many kinds of home-baked breads. Variations on a theme, as the artist would say, can be the stuff of miracles. And the culinary arts are no less artistic than any other art form.

For this delicious clam bake, you will need eight medium-sized red potatoes, a pound of clams in the shell, approximately one and a half pounds of other seafood, muscles, shrimp, even squid are all excellent ideas, usually about a pound of mussels, and a half pound of some other type of seafood should do the trick. You will need approximately 48 ounces of chicken broth (about one can), 3/4 of a cup of butter, 1/4 cup of dry vermouth, and don’t forget: you need a nice, fresh French baguette or other type of fresh-baked bread.

Be sure to be sparing but decisive with any added spices or other ingredients; add them in when you begin cooking, and remember that spices and substitutions are optional. This is definitely a recipe you will want to experiment with a little bit until you find the very best combination of ingredients for a clam bake you can truly call your own.

First, spread your ingredients in layers across the bottom of a large pot. Place the potatoes in first, then cover them with a layer of clams, then add your mussels (optional – otherwise use your own substitution) and then top the third layer with a layer of shrimp (again, optional – otherwise use your substitution). Pour in the vermouth, pinch in any spices, and then add just enough chicken broth to fill the pot halfway. Depending on the size of your pot, you may not use all of the broth. Cover the ingredients and tightly seal the pot shut with aluminum foil. You will want to bring the mixture to a complete boil, then reduce heat and simmer over a medium-to-low temperature for 45 minutes.

After 45 minutes of simmering, remove your clam bake from the heat. Then, carefully remove the foil from the pot and uncover. Drain the liquid before you serve. Melt half of the butter and put it into four separate dishes for dipping. The other half of the butter should suffice for serving with the fresh bread.

What you end up with should be a truly delicious dish. If you are looking for a little more complex flavor but you are not sure what kind of spices to use, you can add rosemary, or perhaps thyme. But most importantly, you want to remember not to over-do it with the spices. The flavor of the fresh fish will be strong and very succulent, and the broth adds to the richness of the recipe as well. Remember you want to please, but not overwhelm your taste buds.

Some types of art are poetic, written lyrics are something to be read aloud. There are certain types of artwork such as music, which is meant to be played or sung. Then there is wall art, beautiful d

Here’s a different way of looking at the whole what is the deadliest style of martial art debate.

Who cares!?

Seriously. I don’t buy into the whole debate and here’s why.

If you did a poll of thousands of martial artists you might get a list like this

Brazilian Jiu-jutsu and ground fighting

Krav Maga and reality based self defense systems

Boxing, Muay Thai and cage fighting

Ninjutsu, Kung Fu, Aikido and other Eastern based martial arts

Modern Hybrid Fighting Styles blending multiple arts

Traditional arts like Karate and Tae Kwon Do

In fact you can find forum posts all over the net from people asking “What is the deadliest style of martial art?” Or “What is the best style when learning how to street fight?” Then a bunch of forum users respond with the “best martial art” which is usually some form of cage fighting or combat sport.

There are some great martial arts in this list. Many masters of these arts can demolish an attacker without thinking.

Ask yourself though, is it your art or you as the martial artist that makes up your fighting ability.

I would say it’s you and not your fighting style. About every martial art out there has turned out some deadly fighters.

Of course let’s be real here. This is only partially true because there are some fruity martial arts out there as well. There are also some fruity martial artists out there that can help you to get stomped in a street fight. With the Internet it seems like the number of these guys has tripled each year.

There’s a huge trap in the martial arts that some will fail to avoid. Putting too much faith in your style or technique and not enough in yourself as a fighter.

So how do we sort through the BS when selecting a martial art? Here are some things to focus on that have less to do with your art and more to do with your ability.

Attributes Training- This is completely separate from your martial art style and technique. This will include things like speed, agility, toughness, flexibility, endurance, reflexes etc. No matter what martial art you study all of these need to be improved. You can either improve them individually or train an art that improves them naturally. For example boxing and cage fighting might help you to develop toughness and speed while an art like Wing Chun or Aikido can improve your sensitivity and flow. Select a martial art that develops some of these attributes along with technique.

Common Sense- Find a balance between open mindedness and common sense. Use your best judgment. If your instructor is telling you to do some ridiculous fancy technique that seems impossible to pull off in a fight, there is a good chance your instincts are right. You might want to find a new school or martial art.

Here is the best advice I can give you about selecting a martial art. Decide before hand how much time you are willing to train in the art. One year? Five? Ten? Then make your decision based on that. Some arts take forever to be able to use. While some of these arts can be very effective, not everyone has three hours a day to devote to training.

Then you have the simple fighting styles out there that can get you combat ready in a hurry. While no art can make you indestructible in a month, some styles are better for making a fighter quickly.

Make sure that if you are only spending a little time each day that you choose a simple, functional system that doesn’t take ten years to use.

If your goal is to improve your fitness or lose weight but you need to do something more exciting than jogging on a treadmill to keep you motivated, perhaps you should consider doing a martial art like boxing, kickboxing, karate, or judo.

In this article we list the top 10 reasons to consider doing a martial art for fitness and weight loss to help you decide if doing one is right for you.

1. Doing martial arts for weight loss

It’s no coincidence that gyms, personal trainers and producers of exercise videos and DVD’s are now heavily incorporating training techniques and exercises from a wide variety of martial arts in their workouts.

Boxercise, Tae Bo, Cardio-Kickboxing, Kung Fu Aerobics, and personal trainers using punching bags, focus mitts and kicking pads in their sessions are just a couple of examples of how martial arts training is being used in cardio workouts for fitness and weight loss.

Because martial art training is typically high intensity and usually lasts for at least an hour in most cases, it burns a maximum number of kilojoules or calories per workout and is therefore great for anyone who wants to lose weight and lose it fast.

2. Doing martial arts for fitness

Most martial arts incorporate exercises and drills that improve cardiovascular fitness and endurance, help build muscle strength and improve muscle flexibility so they are perfect for anyone wanting to improve their overall fitness.

Cardiovascular fitness improvements require us to regularly elevate our heart rate for extended periods and most martial arts training can help us do that.

Improving the strength, size and shape of our muscles requires us to regularly subject them to some form of resistance training. Martial arts training helps provide this training by requiring us to perform exercises like push-ups and squats using our own body weight for resistance.

Improved flexibility is a natural byproduct of martial arts training because most, if not all styles of martial art incorporate stretching exercises in their workouts.

As a result of providing all of these fitness benefits, martial artists like boxers and kickboxers are widely regarded as being among the fittest athletes in the world and practitioners of karate, judo, etc are considered among the strongest pound-for-pound and most flexible athletes in the world.

3. Doing martial arts and self-defense

One of the most obvious benefits of doing a martial art is that it provides us with the fitness, strength, skill and techniques necessary to protect ourselves from being attacked by others who are out to harm us if the need should ever arise.

Like an insurance policy, we hope you’re never in a position to have to use your martial arts training to defend yourself, but it’s great to know this ability is there just in case.

Because they are primarily concerned with elevating our heart rates to burn energy and improve our fitness, many of the workouts listed above like Tae Bo, Boxercise, etc don’t really provide this benefit to the same extent as doing martial arts training with a dedicated teacher in a martial arts school that only provides one service – to teach you a specific martial art.

Many people mistakenly believe that because they punch a focus mitt 50 times during a session with their personal trainer that they know how to punch properly and can therefore defend themselves if they need to. This is a big mistake and we hope these people never find themselves in a situation where this belief is tested.

Unless they’ve had many years of martial arts training themselves, most personal trainers and gym instructors will not be able to offer advice about your punching and kicking technique, they are only really qualified to hold the focus mitts or kick-pad for you while you punch or kick them.

Remember, while probably great at what they do, these trainers are more like aerobics instructors than specifically qualified martial arts instructors.

4. Doing martial arts and self-confidence

In addition to providing us with the ability to defend ourselves, one of the greatest personal benefits that martial art training provides is a high degree of self-confidence.

This self-confidence partly results from the knowledge that we are much better equipped to defend ourselves given that we have done some martial arts training, but it also comes from a sense of achievement once we begin to master the techniques taught to us and the new confidence that results from feeling fitter and stronger and looking fitter and stronger.

Given that one of the first things to suffer, and one of the hardest things to reestablish afterwards, when we become overweight is our self-confidence this benefit is of particular value to those of us who have a weight problem.

5. Doing martial arts to improve body balance and coordination

As well as helping us to become fitter and stronger, martial art training typically involves the mastery of a range of techniques that requires us to be well-balanced and have superior body coordination.

In learning to master these techniques we naturally improve our balance and our coordination which helps us with other aspects of our daily life.

6. Doing martial arts for variety

Martial art training provides great variety in two ways.

Firstly, martial arts training sessions themselves have great variety built into them by including warm-ups and cool-downs, stretching exercises, strength building exercises, cardio exercises and exercises designed to improve and teach us a wide variety of techniques.

This variety is great for our mind as well as our body.

Secondly, there are such a wide variety of martial arts to study that we should be able to easily find one that suits our particular goals and interests.

Whether we prefer to do a martial art that primarily revolves around striking or grappling techniques or a perfect mix of both, or we want to study a highly technical or very simple style, the choice is great.

7. Doing martial arts teaches discipline and provides motivation

Everybody knows that studying a martial art requires and teaches discipline.

Because it is also goal orientated, training in one of the many martial arts also provides a great deal of motivation.

Lack of discipline and motivation are the most often quoted reasons for weight loss failures and for this reason, doing a martial art for weight loss and fitness may help many of us who lack the required discipline and motivation to achieve our weight loss goals to overcome these common barriers to success.

8. Doing martial arts for spirituality

One definition of spirituality is “Activities which renew, lift up, comfort, heal and inspire both ourselves and those with whom we interact.”

Martial art training has been practiced by millions of people over many centuries because among other things, it has a great ability to spiritually uplift us.

As well as forging a better connection between our mind and body, it also has the ability to forge a better connection between us and our world and us and others.

9. Doing martial arts training is relatively inexpensive

Compared to joining some gyms and hiring some personal trainers, training at a martial arts school or dojo is relatively inexpensive.

Many martial arts schools charge a very modest monthly fee for training and the beauty of this is you can train when and as often as it suits you.

In addition to low ongoing training costs, buying a uniform and any equipment you may need to train in most cases will be relatively inexpensive as well.

10. Doing martial arts has a social aspect

Many people who start doing martial arts training for weight loss, improved fitness or self-defense end up enjoying it most for its social aspects.

As well as training and learning with others with similar goals, many martial arts trainees help encourage and motivate each other and end up becoming very good friends.

Many martial arts instructors too have very friendly dispositions and foster a fun and friendly environment in which to train which endears them to their students who typically also become close friends.

Conclusion

If your goal is to improve your fitness or lose weight but you need to do something more exciting than jogging on a treadmill to keep you motivated, perhaps you should consider doing a martial art like boxing, kickboxing, karate, or judo.

In this article we listed the top 10 reasons to consider doing a martial art for fitness and weight loss to help you decide if doing one is right for you.

We are one of the leading web sites related to schools for cooking. We look at cooking schools in the various cities spread across the globe. In this article, we want to look at culinary schools: Boston. There are some wonderful schools for cooking in the “Bean town.” Among those cooking schools, the following institutions are the best to be found (a short brief is included next to each specific school, you can also get more information in the links below):

Berkshire Community College- A certificate is offered at this school for food services. At Berkshire, you participate in the school’s cooking laboratory, students learn plate presentation, food preparation, banquet and buffet techniques for large and small groups. Food service and controls, nutrition, sanitation, and baking principles are studied. This program also involves a supervised work experience; this usually occurs in the summer time right at the conclusion course work completion.

Salter College – This cooking school is much smaller and quite affordable. Part of the real attraction to this institute is the intimacy and as a result the relationships that are developed which often lead a lifetime. After all, connection in this industry are everything.

Cape Cod Community College – This fine community college offers a certificate in culinary arts. Going to a school for cooking at this schools offers more than just the beautiful scenery of Cape Cod.

That is an short list and concise description of the well known and respected culinary schools in Boston. We will be return soon with another city in focus.

In general, abstract art is any form of art that does not have anything to do with the physical things found in the world. Oftentimes, it is viewed as an abstraction of the intrinsic qualities of a physical object and turned into a visual art that does not represent any materialistic value. What the artist does is to take a common object and he either simplifies the object into its smallest possible form or exaggerates it.

The early roots of abstract art will be traced to the 20th century when people drew pictures on dirt. This was made more prevalent by the impressionist movement in art which was later on called abstract impressionism.

Abstract impressionism is a predecessor to surrealism. Abstract impressionism borders o artistic output that is random and has no subject matter to begin with. These drawings, paintings, and sculptures are more of subconscious in origin, meaning they are not works supposed to be grasped through conventional appreciation of what is beautiful. The three main branches or divisions of abstract art are Abstract Cubism, Abstract Neoplasticism, and Abstract Expressionism.

Abstract Cubism is mainly composed not of literal cubes but any geometrical figure to depict what is in the mind of the artist. One aspect of cubism is to split objects in several parts and put them back ion a different form which you will never see in reality. It started in 1908 and attained its height in 1914. The most famous of this type of abstract art were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

Abstract Neoplasticism, on the other hand, stems from a concept or principle that art should never be a copy or reproduction of real objects as we see them through our eyes. It is argued that art should be an expression of what is absolute in life and that these absolutes are either horizontal or vertical lines. The colors used should only be the primary colors and not complicated hues as mixed by contemporary artists or painters. This movement, the neoplasticism as a form of abstract art, occurred in 1910, two years after the birth of cubism. The two most famous painters of this type of abstract art are Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg.

The third division, called Abstract Expressionism, is a reflection of the painter’s or artist’s personality through random and spontaneous painting. In general, there are two types of abstract expressionism: Action Painting and Color Field Painting. Action painting shows the texture of the paint and how the artist moves as he paints the masterpiece. The most famous action painter is John Pollock. On the other hand, a color field painter is much more concerned on the shapes he uses to come up with a masterpiece and the artist is very particular with the colors used in the painting. The name that comes to mind whenever color field painting is mentioned is mark Rothko.

In summary, the thing that separates abstract art from other art forms is that it is not tangible and physical in nature. It is much more concerned on the depths of the human psychology and spirit and these works of art are painted in random behavior and spontaneity.

One of the reasons why people stop doing workouts and exercises is that they can’t seem to find a good reason why to continue. Losing weight is already hard enough; temptations outside the gym are making it worse. There is also no practicality in spending dollars on gym fees while you only learn there is to lift weights and stay on a strict diet.

Now, there are other ways to keep you lean and mean while giving you practical advantages, What I’m talking about is martial arts.

This art form was made to protect one self. It was born after the need of survival rose. It was created to overcome the disadvantage that situation presents to a person. Example, Muay Thai was developed in Thailand to fight against the bandits who had weapons. In the past, martial arts were taught in a secret. It was because of its deadly nature and the misconception of most people. However, in the present times, dojos who teach these martial arts always instill to their students about responsibility of their actions.

By practicing you’ll not only teach yourself on how to defend from muggers and the likes, you’ll also lose weight, Martial art has rigorous training that will sure to sweat you out. Their training will surely convert your fats tom muscles! They do this because of the importance of having hard muscles to protect your self. Some martial arts also focus on how flexible you are.

Punching and kicking may sound cool but dodging attacks and evading those punches and kicks are better. To make yourself flexible, exercises are done to tone your body to the right size. Also by practicing martial arts, discipline and responsibility are instilled in you. Not only will your body become strong, but also your spirit will.

A martial artist however should be dedicated to his art. It is harder than hitting the gym but is more rewarding and fruitful.

Because a culinary arts education has become so popular, colleges and universities worldwide are opening culinary arts schools. These programs all offer the basic culinary courses, and are attracting thousands of new students each year. Why? Because these future chefs know that a passion for cooking and a few great recipes aren’t enough to land that dream chef’s job. They must have a formal education and some internship experience to back it up.

However, the number of choices available can make it difficult to pick one. There are many options to consider, and it can be an expensive endeavor. Although community colleges can be more affordable, if you’re looking at a culinary arts school you are likely going to spend a good deal more money on your education.

Deciding to go on to higher education can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life, but funding it can be one of the most nerve-wracking. An education in culinary arts can be very expensive, just like any other degree program. Many aspiring cooks and chefs are unable to finish their degrees because of the cost.

However, there are grants and scholarships available for the aspiring chef. Students have a plethora of choices in financial aid these days, a menu of grants and loans that will fit almost any need. Grants and scholarships, remember, are monies for tuition payments on the student’s behalf and don’t need to be repaid. These are known as gift aids, and are an attractive option for those with fewer resources.

These grants and scholarships for the culinary arts are made available either through your school or from private trusts and grants. If you apply for a school grant, you must contact the school for the forms and application papers. The private grants are usually set up by benefactors or patrons. Culinary arts students usually have them offered one of two ways: either by the tuition waiver, which is often 50 percent to 75 percent of the student’s fees, or the cash award, normally between $500 and $5,000 (although some schools offer cash awards higher than $5,000).

Remember that the school’s professional faculty committees review the grant and scholarship applications offered in the culinary arts department. By doing this, they determine which of the applicants are good candidates to receive awards, and which are not. The committee considers all experience, past performance, and financial status when making determinations. If they consider you a good candidate for that school’s scholarship money, then they will make a grant to you through the school or another outside company.