Maci Runkel is a first-year student who
came to Ivy Tech after graduating from
the 2-year culinary arts program at J.
Everett Light Career Center at North
Central High School. During her time
there, she concentrated in baking and
pastry making.

Maci entered in the Commercial Baking competition for SkillsUSA in 2018 and won the
Indianapolis regional championship
advancing to the State competition. In
2019, Maci again competed and
advanced to the State competition
where she won 1 st place. Her state
championship enabled her to advance
to the National SkillsUSA Commercial
Baking competition in Louisville,
Kentucky.

She has also participated in
various other competitions, such as the
Girl Scout Cookie competition, the
FCCLA STAR (Family, Career and
Community Leaders of America Students Taking Action with Recognition) competition, and the National Restaurant Association’s
ProStart for Culinary Arts. Maci will
continue to compete in SkillsUSA’s
Postsecondary and various other
competitions.

She is currently employed
at The Gallery Pastry Shop in Broad
Ripple where she previously interned.

Brogan Sheets is a student of Ivy Tech. She also attended Maryville University of St. Louis and continued here education at IUPUI. She realized throughout her first two years of college that food was her passion. That bought her to Ivy Tech. She really enjoys everything about our industry.