And the winner is …

What began as an offer for one industrial student to receive a one-year, paid internship at VTech turned into one student being offered a job following graduation, and two others being offered six-month, paid internships!

VTech’s senior design manager David Waterman announced Jesse Bizzoco and Austin Brown as the recipients of the two VTech internships, and offered Ishmael Adams a position on the VTech design team.

Ishmael and Jesse celebrate the VTech news!

Austin’s all smiles after learning he’ll be back in Hong Kong this fall.

Bizocco and Brown, both juniors, tentatively head back to Hong Kong this fall to begin their six-month internships. Adams, who graduates May 31, may start his two-year contract with VTech on American soil while his Hong Kong visa and living arrangements get set up overseas.

Professor Peter Fossick embraces Ishmael, Austin and Jesse after learning the exciting news.

The big day: VTech

The big day finally arrived. A little nervous, yes. Excited? Of course.

Eight weeks into spring quarter and just two days shy of having spent a full week in Hong Kong, the industrial design students — Jesse, Marcus, Jacob, Ryan C., Julie, Matt, Will, Pat, Drew, Ryan, Ish, Bradley, Dan, Austin and Carl — presented their final design concepts to VTech designers David Waterman and Joshua Fischer. And, safe to say, they blew away their captive audience.

David remarked that the work of the collective group is the best he’s seen of any student work from any college in the world. The adjectives “impressive” and “professional” repeatedly preceded comments on the students’ presentation skills, process sketches, research and concept ideas.

The group made SCAD history as the college’s first-ever student group to travel internationally and present to a real world client. As professors Peter Fossick and Joel Wittkamp said later in the afternoon, while being interviewed along with Marcus and Jesse by the South China Morning Post (Young Post), it is the first of [hopefully] many future class experiences like Hong Kong.

During an evening reception for some of our company hosts at Felix’s, David Waterman explained to a reporter from Hinge Magazine the necessity for design students to experience a class project such as the SCAD and VTech.

You guys ROCKED!!! Thank you for this amazing trip… HON

International client:VTech

Innovation Beyond Technology

Headquartered in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, VTech is a household name synonymous with technologically advanced telecommunications, electronic learning products.

VTech, founded in 1976, has more than 30,000 employees in global offices located on three continents in 10 countries. The company is one of the world’s largest suppliers of corded and cordless telephones, and is the leading supplier of electronic learning products.

VTech core values

• Innovation
• Quality
• Value
• Reliability
• Practicality
• Style