James Buck Burlington School District employee Jennifer Trapani holding up the computer so students cooking remotely can see chef Cheryl Niedzwiecki making this month s Jr. Iron Chef VT recipe On the afternoon of February 15 at St. Mark Catholic Church in Burlington s New North End, three Burlington School District employees were juggling laptops, video cameras and root vegetables. The church has provided a temporary home to the Burlington Technical Center s culinary arts program and the district s afterschool cooking activities while the high school addresses cancer-causing chemicals found on its campus. But wherever they take place, the district s cooking extracurriculars would normally involve months of recipe development and practice runs by teams preparing for the annual Jr. Iron Chef VT statewide culinary competition, now in