Food Network Kids Sweets Showdown star Kaylon Harvey speaks to SGTC Marketing class

February 14, 2017
Kaylon Harvey is shown pointing to a poster board in front of a class of college students.
Eleven year-old aspiring chef Kaylon Harvey, who appeared on the Food Network’s Kids Sweets Showdown late last year, recently spoke to students in SGTC’s Marketing Management program.

South Georgia Technical College’s Marketing Management class recently welcomed Kaylon Harvey to their class and listened to him speak about his time on the Food Network Kids Sweets Showdown television show.

Kaylon and his mother, Pamela, spoke to SGTC Marketing Management instructor Mary Cross’s Marketing Channels class, and opened with a few icebreaker activities. The first was a factor or fiction ice-breaker game on different facts about Kaylon. The class also participated in a “5 of anything” activity, which included listing 5 items in 5 categories about different food related items. The students were then able to ask Kaylon questions about his time on the show and enjoy homemade brownies made by Kaylon.

Kaylon Harvey is an eleven year-old student from Americus. He is the son Robert and Pamela Harvey, and he competed on the Food Network’s Kids Sweets Showdown television show back in August of 2016, appearing on two of the three episodes of the show. He and his partner won the $10,000 prize in the second competition. Kaylon dreams of one day owning his own bakery shop to sell cakes, pies, cookies, and other baked goods.

Marketing Management is offered as both a degree and diploma program on SGTC’s Americus and Crisp County Center campuses. For more information, contact Americus instructor Mary Cross at 229.931.2317 or mcross@southgatech.edu; or contact Crisp County Center campus instructor Karen Bloodworth at 229.271.4074 or kbloodworth@southgatech.edu.

SGTC’s Marketing Management program has produced SGTC GOAL winners for the past two years, with the Crisp County Center program’s Christopher McGee being named the 2017 winner recently, and the Americus campus program’s own Ashley Rodgers winning the state title for 2016.