GODFREY Stewart, Charlemont, and Excelsior high schools have topped GraceKennedy’s ChooseMyPlate food and nutrition competition, each winning $75,000 for upgrading their schools’ labs, and supermarket vouchers for each member of the teams.

Godfrey Stewart, located in Westmoreland, took the prize for the county of Cornwall; Charlemont, in St Catherine, won for Middlesex; while Excelsior took the Surrey prize.

St Jago High School, meanwhile, was awarded $25,000 for having amassed 285 votes, the highest number of any of the video entries posted on the GraceKennedy website.

The awards were presented at the Pegasus hotel on Monday following the presentation of Overfed and Undernourished, in the GraceKennedy Foundation Lecture for 2016.

ChooseMyPlate is a budget meal preparation contest open to students in Grade 11 who are registered to sit Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) food and nutrition in May/June this year.

Teams comprising no more than four students and one teacher were required to prepare a dinner menu for a family of four using mainly Grace products and with a budget of $2,000. They then had to create a three-five minute video showing them preparing the meal, explaining its nutritional value and stating why their school should win.