IES Research March 30, 2020
“Chef Koochooloo is a game platform that teaches kindergarten through fifth grade students cultural sensitivity, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) concepts (assessed as per national standards), and sustainability through healthy cooking in schools. Developed in part with a 2019 NSF SBIR award.”
Pr.com June 1, 2019
“Chef Koochooloo wins a competitive grant from the National Science Foundation and invitations from the French and Swiss governments to pilot the idea in Europe. It teaches kids healthy eating from around the world, and infuses STEAM concepts through lessons. It is an example of how schools and policy makers can improve ethnically diverse students’ success via culturally responsive teaching, with education programs and technologies using knowledge, attitudes and skills for inclusive classrooms.”
American Chemical Society August 23, 2018
I Love Mountain View January 25, 2018
“I went to Landels Elementary School yesterday to watch Chef Koochooloo After School Program in action this week. It was so much fun (for me!) and the kids had a great time too.”
Betty Yu, CBSN Bay Area October 29, 2017
“Silicon Valley has a well-documented gender discrimination problem, but more female entrepreneurs are coming forward saying they’ve been victims of “momism” or maternal bias.”
Gino Franco, Business-Software.com July 6th, 2015
“Chef Koochooloo is a start up located in Mountain View, CA that strives to empower families and educators to engage in fun, interactive culinary studies while enhancing math, science, and social studies knowledge. The curriculum allows children to learn by touching, tasting, feeling, smelling, and listening. They love every aspect of the program because they can use all of their senses. They are also able to make sense of science and math in a more concrete tangible way.”
Bekah, Motherhood Moment May 21, 2015
“Chef Koochooloo is a start up located in Mountain View, CA that strives to empower families and educators to engage in fun, interactive culinary studies while enhancing math, science, and social studies knowledge. The curriculum allows children to learn by touching, tasting, feeling, smelling, and listening. They love every aspect of the program because they can use all of their senses. They are also able to make sense of science and math in a more concrete tangible way.”
Chef Hollie Greene, JoyFoodly May 20, 2015
“Chef Koochooloo is a social enterprise focused on teaching kids math, science and geography through one hour long cooking sessions, while raising awareness about worldwide causes affecting kids.”
Robbin Tippins, Mariposa Interactive February 26, 2015
“Chef Koochooloo is a project that was created from the very beginning through community feedback. I basically posted some recipes I was teaching my daughter on my blog and blog readership tripled within weeks, then I started getting requests from parents whether we could post more recipes, include their country or ingredients of choice, etc.”
Amy Norman, Using Your Words December 8, 2014
“I had the pleasure of working with Layla at Yahoo!. She was an active, engaged writer for Yodeling Mamas—the blog I ran which featured writing from moms who worked at Yahoo!. I’ve loved watching as her idea for an app quickly grew into Bay Area cooking/cultural classes, a thriving blog with recipes and accompanying lessons about the region, products, and, of course, an app in the making.”