ROCHESTER – Five Old Colony Culinary Arts students took fourth place at a cooking competition at Gillette Stadium on Tuesday, Feb. 12.

Old Colony sent a team manager and four cooks to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association ProStart Invitational. The team manager was junior Lauren Macomber and the cooks were junior Victoria Hannon, and seniors Maxwell Smith, Anthony Wright, and Lauren McGowan.

Dining Room instructor Chef Samantha Clarke said that culinary arts instructors picked these five students because two of them had medaled in the recent SkillsUSA cooking and baking competitions. Macomber won the gold medal in the SkillsUSA baking competition and Hannon placed fourth in the culinary  competition.

As team manager, Macomber had to check how to food was cooked and if the ingredients were correct.

Macomber said that she had “confidence that [the cooks] would do well” in the competition.

The Old Colony Culinary Arts program faced off against 11 other schools.

The team had to cook a three-course meal during the competition, with an appetizer, entrée, and dessert. The team made miso wasabi shrimp for an appetizer, jasmine duck breast with port cherry sauce for an entree and orange mascarpone mousse for dessert.

Teams in the competition were judged on their ability to check their dishes, their sanitation, setup of the work area, how the food was prepared, and how the meal was described. They were also judged for tasting and plating, or how they used garnishes for decoration when serving people.

During the competition, the team depended on good teamwork and consistency, according to Smith.

Hannon said it was “really cool to be the only junior on the team cooking,” She said that she was “so beyond nervous” when she entered the competition.

Smith was also glad to be in the competition and said that he was “more relaxed than normal.”

Carver Middle High School took first place in the competition, Nantucket High School took second place, and Nashoba Valley Technical High School took third place.