Each week students in the Core Skills class take and fulfill orders through the “Galaxy Café” coffee shop, a mock business at Manhattan High School that helps navigate adulting and understand the basics of working a business. 

Each Wednesday with these skills, students learn communication skills and how to overcome challenges and develop food service skills they can use after high school. It supplements the things they learn every other day of the week, when students work on the basics of adulting, parent relations, creating boundaries and noticing red flags.

Tiffany Stevenson, Core Skills teacher and founder of “Galaxy Café,” gives teachers and staff the opportunity to order something off their monthly menu. Everything they make is made specially in room E-121.

“Everything they do is here, in my class,” Stevenson said. “They cook and make the drinks over on that counter.”

Each student is assigned a certain recipe for the week, and when orders are being made, they must complete their task.

This December, in celebration of the holidays, everything on the menu will include peppermint. If you order something, expect it to be delivered right to your classroom on Wednesday.