Hahnville High School students will host the annual Pat Pitre Memorial Scholarship Crawfish Cookoff March 28 from 12 p.m.- 4 p.m. at Monsanto Park.
Tickets are $20 per person and $15 for kids under 8. Tickets for Hahnville students with ID are $15. The event is all-you-can eat crawfish and features a silent auction.
Team registration ends March 20 and cost $150 per team. Last year, 12 teams competed.
The cookoff is organized by students in the Chick-Fil-A Leadership Academy, a one-year program that focuses on leadership and service. The program encourages students to take notice of needs in their community and work to meet those needs. Students organize a “Do Good” December project and a “Big Impact” project. Last year, Hahnville students organized a Christmas party at Ashton Manor in December.
Kenner Chick-Fil-A is the academy’s sponsoring restaurant.
At the cookoff, Leader Academy students are responsible for running errands for the teams, presenting the crawfish to the judges and ensuring the teams don’t influence the judges.
Amber Harter, facilitator of the Leader Academy at Hahnville, said she is looking forward to seeing the kids’ work pay off at the cookoff.
“Leading up to the event is the real work, students have worked to ask for donations to our silent auction, recruited teams for the boil, and done fundraisers to help us raise money,” Harter said.
This is Harter’s first year as facilitator of the program.
“[The cookoff] means a lot,” Harter said. “It is the first event I participated in when I first started working at Hahnville, and it has become a tradition for our family to attend,” she said. “I am excited to be involved with putting it on this year.”
All proceeds of the event go toward the Pat Pitre Memorial Scholarship Fund. Pitre, a former librarian at Hahnville, died of breast cancer in 2016. Her family set up the fund, which gives scholarships of around $500 to two graduating seniors.
