Wins Regional, National Contests Cal Poly's Dairy Products Judging Team beat out 20 entries recently to win the National Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation Contest, held recently in San Francisco. The competition tests students' ability to grade and score six different dairy products, including butter, ice cream, milk, cottage cheese, yogurt and cheddar cheese. Each student judges 48 different samples for appearance, flavor and body and texture.
Students compete as individuals and as three-member teams.
Team members were Marcia Bugbee, a senior agribusiness major, Renee McLaughlin, agricultural science junior, and Sarah Renner, dairy science junior. The three members are all residents of Fontana. Casey Griffith, a junior dairy science student from Ferndale, served as the alternate. Joan Lozano, a dairy science graduate student from Dinuba, competed as the graduate representative. In individual placings, Bugbee was first in cheddar cheese and second in yogurt, Renner was third in yogurt and fourth in ice cream, and McLaughlin was third in cheddar cheese.