Ms. Patricia Ong, a 2^nd Year Hotel and Restaurant Management Student, won 2^nd Runner Up during the Jolly University Year 5 Competition.The Jolly University is an open competition for all aspiring and talented young cooks which aims to test the kitchen skills, creativity, and innovation. This year’s theme was “Innovate, Create, Share”. The competition conducted an elimination round where all young cooks sent their recipes to Jolly and was judged according to their creativity and the theme.

Luckily, Patricia made it to the Top 20 where she faced off in another round of elimination round last March 15, 2019 at the St. Scholastica’s College, Manila where the Top 20 battled out to make it to the Top 10. During the Top 20 elimination round, the young chefs where tasked to create a dish with a theme “Modern Filipino” where they had to reinterpret a classic Filipino dish to a modern one and had to use at least one (1) 400g can of Jolly Mushroom. Patricia’s dish was “Pork Hamonado served with Steamed Coconut Milk Bunete”. Eventually she made it to the Top 10. She was coached by our very own HRM Faculty, Chef Sherrill Chua.

The grand cook off was the final round participated by the top 10 was themed "fusion". In this category, the dish should be a combination of two distinct cuisines using any jolly product. CKSC’s very own Patricia created a Thai cuisine consists of mushroom longanissa, suman with crispy shallot garlic latik and coconut creamed foam served with fried egg and green mango salad. The competition was joined by several universities and colleges around Metro Manila, South Luzon and Central Luzon such as University of Santo Tomas, EARIST, Metropolitan Medical Center College of Arts, Science, and Technology, San Sebastian College-Recoletos, Far Eastern University, Manila Tytana Colleges, St. Joseph College Quezon City, Emilio Aguinaldo College, Lyceum of the Philippines University-Manila, CEU Makati, NCBA Fairview, San Juan de Dios Educational Foundation Inc. College, and St. Scholastica’s College, Manila.

The 2019 Student and Faculty Research Colloquium was held last March 02, 2019, at the CKS College Conference Room, Narra Campus. The research conference with the theme, "Valuing Innovative Ideas in Optimizing Awareness in Research Development" was participated by the following faculty members: Dr. Imelda C. Nery (Dean, School of Education), Dr. Frederick A. Halcon ( Special Guest Lecturer, School of Graduate Studies, Ms. Armi R. Mogro (Faculty Member, Senior High School, and College Departments), Mr. Ron Louie G. Palacio (Faculty Member, IB-MYP Department) and Mr. Michael Lawrence C. Ulep (Faculty-in-Charge of the HRM Program).  

The 2^nd Seed Cup held at the University of Santo Tomas Alfredo M. Velayo Multi-Purpose Hall last February 24, 2019. The quiz bee was composed of all the Certified Public Accountant board exam coverage together with general knowledge questions. This event was intended to aid partner organizations with the pot prize won by the emerging champions of the event. This event was organized by the UST-JPIA together with NFJPIA-NCR. The participants for this event were the following students namely Jan Derrick Y. Lim, Janelle W. Dionisio and Almiera Angmariano. The team emerged as the top 6 contender during the elimination round of the contest proper and emerged as the 2^nd Runner Up of the 2^nd Seep Cup. 

As the aim of the school to bridge the industry and academe-gap for the students, the CKS College Junior Organization together with the CKS College Philippine Marketing Association, organized a seminar entitled: “Marketing Innovation” held last February 13, 2019 at the 2^nd Conference room, Narra Campus. College students and Senior High School Grade 12 ABM strand students were invited to attend.

The seminar featured the Chairman of Mansmith and Fielders, Inc. (the leading marketing and sales training company in the Philippines), Mr. Josiah Go. He is a record breaking best-selling author of various marketing and entrepreneurship books.