AICD's comprehensive one-day (10 hours) Certified Associate Ice Carver (CAIC) Program of private instruction is especially designed for chefs, catering directors, banquet managers, and sales associates who need the professional and competitive know-how in order to sell and order ice sculptures. This intensive one-day program will equip you with the most critical techniques and course requirements from our three-day Certified Professional Ice Carver (CPIC) Program that are needed to oversee the marketing, selling, design, carving, delivery, and safe setup of ice sculptures.
Through intensive hands-on lessons, Paul Germain's unique and rigorous training system will give you confidence in a creating and selling a broad range of beginning, intermediate, and advanced ice carvings.
The savings in time, tuition, meals, and lodging make our Certified Associate Ice Carver (CAIC) Program the most popular program of choice for companies who wish to offer comprehensive and immediate instruction for their chefs, banquet managers, and sales associates.
Our goal is bold: to make it possible for you to gain a greater overview of professional ice carving through hands-on experience than has ever been possible in such a short period of time!
Special Note: AICD provides one-to-one personalized instruction that is tailored for each student's experience and future objectives. Private instruction ensures that student carvers of any level receive far more actual training and individual guidance than is possible within group ice carving classes. It also provides a much safer and more productive learning environment for developing the skills needed for selling and safely setting up highly realistic and creative multi-block ice sculptures.
Features One-To-One, Private, Highly Interactive Instruction
The most important and innovative techniques of professional ice carving have been condensed into a single 10 hour program. Due to the fast-paced intensity of this custom program, it is best suited for private instruction of students who are capable of optimum concentration and physical stamina. Our unique program includes hands-on training in many of the highly specialized, "secret ice carving techniques" developed throughout Paul's 25 years of experience in the ice sculpting industry, as well as many of the most advanced and celebrated techniques used by professional ice sculptors around the world today.
"Ice Carving is a blast and knowing how to do it right makes it that much more fun! It's amazing how much you can learn in one day of training at AICD. "
Jim Driscoll, Corona Del Mar, California
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AICD's Certified Associate Ice Carver (CAIC) Program is ideally suited for any culinary school, hotel, country club, caterer, or restaurant that is in need of immediate ice sculpture instruction for the sake of increasing sales and managing the setup of ice sculptures.
The AICD Certified Associate Ice Carver (CAIC) Program includes a full day (10 hours) of intensive, hands-on, private ice carving instruction.
Course topics from our Certified Professional Ice Carver (CMIC) Program have been adapted to help banquet managers and sales associates to gain the essential skills needed to sell and manage the creation and display of traditional buffet sculptures and detailed engraved logos.
The AICD Certified Associate Ice Carver (CAIC) Program is designed to teach a broad range of ice carving skills and technologies needed for those who sell and market ice sculptures. Our private, one-on-one instruction is available for highly motivated sales associates who want to advance at a rate that is optimum for their learning style, skill, and level of experience. Private instruction is adapted to suit the individual sales person's needs.
Certified Associate Ice Carver (CAIC) Program of Private Instruction
- $1,695 Total
Total Continuing Education Hours (CEH) for this program: 10 hours
Tuition includes the use of all carving and specialty equipment, materials, 20 ice carving books, computer aided design, crystal clear Clinebell ice blocks, and many other resources. A delicious lunch, snacks, and refreshments are served with our compliments throughout the day.
Note:
The art of ice carving involves the use of tools and equipment that are inherently dangerous. To meet the safety-related needs of professional ice sculpture companies, ice carving schools, hotels, country clubs, and caterers, a high priority is given to the development of safe carving, delivery, and set-up practices. This program requires that the carver be in excellent health, and must be physically able to work with heavy materials and equipment for prolonged periods of time in both warm and cold environments.
The ice carving industry is growing at a phenomenal rate in the U.S and around the world. AICD is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive ice sculpture training possible for ice sculpture companies, hotels, caterers, country clubs, and culinary schools seeking to employ highly qualified, professionally certificated chefs, ice carvers, and sales associates.
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