Cafe '21 at AmTech Career Academy

07/14/2026

Check out our very own talented, Juan Ybarra on KAMR TV this morning.
AmTech Career Academy is preparing students for success beyond high school. Juan will be a Senior this fall at Tascosa High School and is a D3 SkillsUSA Texas officer. We love watching our students shine in our local industry.
Amarillo ISD CTE
Amarillo ISD

Chef Paul, owner of Mi Gente, joined Today In Amarillo to cook up El Jardin and Carnita Rice Bowl from the restaurant’s lunch menu.

05/18/2026

Congratulations to our newly installed D3 SkillsUSA officers! Culinary Arts student, Juan Ybarra Tascosa High School was elected as the 2026-27 Parliamentarian, and Automotive Technology student, Michael Elicero Amarillo High School was elected as the Chairman.
Our D3 officer team worked diligently the past four days at Summer Leadership Camp at Deer Creek Ranch to earn their statesmen pins and plan for the upcoming 2026-27 school year.

We are so proud of Juan and Michael!
AmTech Career Academy
Amarillo ISD
Amarillo ISD CTE

05/06/2026

We would like to give a HUGE shoutout to our friends at Affiliated Foods, Inc. for donating this incredible smoker to our HSBBQ teams at AmTech Career Academy.
Our students (and their chefs) had so much fun breaking it in today.
We are so blessed to live in a community that provides the best for our youth.
Thank you!
Amarillo ISD CTE
Amarillo ISD

04/25/2026

Congratulations to Blake Yarber of Route66 Smoke!
Blake walked away 5th place in Ribs (96 teams competing!) at the High School BBQ Inc. - HSBBQ State Cookoff today.
We are so proud of both of our teams and the hard work each student put in today.
AmTech Career Academy
Amarillo ISD
Amarillo ISD CTE
Tascosa High School

04/25/2026

HSBBQ State 2026 is officially underway! Let’s go AmTech Career Academy!
Amarillo ISD CTE
Amarillo ISD

04/19/2026

Good Luck to our two teams from AmTech Career Academy.
Route66 Smoke and Smokin’Storm will be competing at state next weekend in Granite Shoals.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL 107 STATE TEAMS!

Reminder!
You must register for State by 4/17!

Don’t delay!!!

04/14/2026

AmTech Culinary students walked with confidence onto the floor to compete with the best in the state this past week in Corpus Christi and we are so proud of them for shining bright.

They displayed determination and grit when obstacles appeared, and they finished strong. Congratulations for competing at the state level and excelling in your craft.
We are proud of all of you.
Also, a big thank you to our local Restaurant Association partners for mentoring our students as we prepared for state.

🥈Silver in Culinary Arts- Blake Yarber
Tascosa High School

Ryan Anglen Amarillo High School
Best of Show 3-5 Tier Cake Commercial Baking

Best of Show Restaurant Model Project
Legna Cunningham and Maddyx Kerns
Tascosa High School

04/09/2026

Good Luck to our AmTech Baking and Pastry contestant Kathy Huynh Amarillo High School as she works today to bring home our 2nd State Championship! You got this Kathy!

Also competing in Restaurant Service today is Suri Huynh, Caprock High School. Let’s go Suri!!

03/04/2026

Get ready to witness the future of culinary excellence as four AmTech Practicum students compete in our inaugural Next Gen West Texas Chef competition tomorrow night at Restaurant Roundup.
Joade Rodriguez- Tascosa High School
Tristan Peters- Amarillo High School
Blake Yarber- Tascosa High School
JT Murrah - Amarillo High School
Thank you to our sponsors Texas Restaurant Association and Ben E. Keith Foods
AmTech Career Academy
Amarillo ISD
Amarillo ISD CTE

02/22/2026

Our HSBBQ teams had some good walks this weekend High School BBQ Inc. - HSBBQ
Congrats to our Amarillo High School boys, Juan Elicero- 1st Place in Brisket, Tristan Peters-8th Place Brisket, and Maddox Villegas 10th place ribs!
Our Route 66 Smoke team also had 7th Place in beans. The team consisted of Joade Rodriguez and Blake Yarber from Tascosa High School and J.T. Murrah and Tristan Peters Amarillo High School
Both teams, Smokin’ Storm and Route 66 Smoke will be state bound in April.
Great job AmTech Career Academy
We also want to thank our local community BBQ pit-master Chris Villegas for traveling with us sharing his passion for great BBQ!