As a culinary student at IUP, you will have the opportunity to attend our annual Externship Sponsor Fair. For three weeks of the Spring semester, executive chefs and human resource representatives from some of the most luxurious resort sites in the United States travel to Punxsutawney to meet with culinary and baking students. These professionals devote a full day to IUP students presenting information about their properties, giving career advice, and interviewing for externship positions.
This event is an exceptional opportunity for IUP culinary students to personally interview with some of the most successful chefs in the culinary industry. Students leave these employer presentations and interviews energized and focused on their long-term goals of gaining quality placement and employment! The majority of students who interview at the Sponsor Far will have an externship job offer in hand within weeks after the end of the fair.
2012 Sponsor Fair Participants:
The Biltmore Company, Asheville, N.C.
The Biltmore Estate offers exquisite accommodations, relaxed elegance, and fine dining in the breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Awarded Four Stars by Mobil Travel Guide and Four Diamonds by AAA, the Biltmore Estate has been on Condé Nast Traveler’s Gold List for five years running.
Biltmore Company
Boca Raton Resort, Boca Raton, Fla.
Boca Raton Resort and Club, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, has reigned as an icon of elegance for more than 80 years. Situated on 356 acres in fabled South Florida, the Resort offers a delicious array of dining options.
Boca Raton Resort and Club
Giant Eagle
Giant Eagle is ranked 29th on Forbes magazine's largest private corporations list. It is one of the nations largest food retailers and food distributors with approximately $9.3 billion in annual sales.
Giant Eagle Market District
The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va.
The Homestead is a luxury resort and spa in Virginia. Surrounded by the four-season splendor of the Allegheny Mountains, this national historic landmark welcomed its first guests to the beautiful Virginia countryside a decade before the American Revolution.
The Homestead
The Marriott Marco Island, Marco Island, Fla.
Nestled on three miles of pristine Southwest Florida beaches, the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort Golf Club and Spa is celebrating the completion of a $187-million renovation and redesign. Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort offers guests remarkable dining options, from elegant to enchantingly casual. In every venue, creative tropical cuisine is served up in the resort’s signature Balinese-inspired atmosphere of hospitality.
The Marriott, Marco Island
The Marriott, New Orleans, New Orleans, La.
A luxurious New Orleans hotel in the French Quarter, located steps from Bourbon Street, the Convention Center, downtown business district, and iconic Big Easy attractions, the Marriott New Orleans is fresh from a recent $38-million renovation. The Marriott Hotel in New Orleans is home to the award-winning 5 Fifty 5, serving up a dining experience worthy of its French Quarter location.
The Marriott, New Orleans
Mountain Air Country Club, Burnesville, N.C.
Located atop the Blue Ridge Mountains thirty-five minutes from Asheville, Mountain Air is a private residential community and club. The property is surrounded by serene forests and, at 4,919 feet above sea level, guests can enjoy the majesty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Mountain Air was named “America’s Best Community.”
Mountain Air Country Club
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmington, Pa.
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, located in the Laurel Highlands of Southwestern Pennsylvania, is one of only twenty-one hotels and resorts in the world to host AAA Five-Diamond lodging and dining. Nemacolin also boasts an impressive collection of restaurants and lounges, including the Forbes Five-Star and AAA Five-Diamond Lautrec, a forward-thinking fine dining experience. Lautrec received a AAA Five Diamond rating for 2008 and again for 2009, making it the only such rated restaurant between east coast cities such as Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York, and Chicago.
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort
Ocean Reef Club, Key Largo, Fla.
For over forty years, Ocean Reef Club has enjoyed a reputation as an exclusive destination for business meetings, retreats, incentive travel, and special celebrations. A remarkable combination of an ideal private location, luxury accommodations, impeccable service, and unsurpassed amenities is tucked away in the Florida Keys. Ocean Reef Club is located at the northern tip of the northernmost chain of islands that sweeps southwestward into the Caribbean.
Ocean Reef Club
Penn State Food Services, State College, Pa.
A unit in the Penn State Auxiliary and Business Services area, Penn State Food Services operates multiple food outlets ranging from campus dining commons to coffee shops to full-scale restaurants. This unit also operates a catering service featuring delivered cuisine, event catering, and barbecues.
Penn State Food Services
Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, The Village of Pinehurst, N.C.
Nestled among the Sandhills of North Carolina, the 2,000-acre Pinehurst Resort offers historic southern hospitality, elegant accommodations, luxury spa facilities, family recreational activities, and eight world-class golf courses. A variety of dining options are offered ranging from elegant and upscale to family-friendly and sports-themed.
Pinehurst Resort and Country Club
