2012:

  • Enhanced culinary arts curriculum developed and launched on the campus of Santee in Fall with 150 student cohorts   

American Heart Association donated 10 raised vegetable beds

2013:

  • Students created regionally inspired fresh healthy salads and served as lunch to peers.  C A K E  teamed with LAUSD Food Services to offer pilot program

  • Summer of 2013, C A K E  partners with the American Heart Association and The California Endowment to launch a six-week summer intensive training for students called Harvest with Heart

2014:

  • CAKE partners with Heart of Los Angeles Youth (HOLA) to offer a summer program to their high school students.

  • LA Times Invites students to present at The Taste held at Paramount Studios having 10,000 attendees

2015:

  • After School with C A K E  and After Work With C A K E, a 12- week program that enriches the lives of both parents and children as they learn to cook and break bread together.

  • July launched 6 week Summer Programs – preparing students for workforce and life

  • Cookbook created by C A K E students called "From Our Hood to Yours." Organic food grown by youth, developed into fresh health recipes. Young chefs also wrote personals narratives to accompany recipe.

  • Lifestyle and Cooking video's produced by teens for teens. Inspired by cookbook "From our Hood To Yours" students produced their own videos.

2017:

  • CAKE partnered with C-Cap and corporations in Hospitality Industry preparing students specifically for the local hospitality workforce, through internships and mentoring opportunities.

  • CAKE to launch own line of healthy fresh regionally inspired salads developed by advanced students: " From our Hood To Yours" to be offered at local juice spots.

  • After School Program will be available 5 days a week 

  • Global Groweables: Large scale hydroponic unit (1,000lb. of food monthly) -retrofitted freight car, growing: herbs,veggies;  used for -school lunches, community farmers market, CAKE program and community partners.

  • Partnered with Apple Inc. and created a training workshop to create e-cookbooks with CAKE students recipes

2018:

  • Joined the Kids N Fitness© program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

  • Partnered with Wolfgang Puck to create a volunteer experience where advanced CAKE students participated in preparing meals for the 2018 Oscar's 

  • Joined C-Cap’s professional development program and worked with US Foods

2019:

  • CAKE curriculum is adapted by 5 local Pre K, Elementary and Jr. High Schools

2020:

  • CAKE partnered with Careers Through Culinary Arts Program, Los Angles (C-CAP LA) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and created the Healthy Lifestyle Enrichment Series for 2020 Fall semester.