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.

South China Morning Post interviews Jesse and Marcus

By Emily Green

On Thursday, following the VTech presentations, industrial design students Marcus Perez Cervantes and Jesse Bizocco met up with reporter Miranda Yeung from the South China Morning Post–Young Post for an interview about being [American] design students, visiting Hong Kong and working with VTech.

The interview began with Marcus and Jesse’s photo shoot along the Kowloon harbor, behind the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, while Yeung spoke to industrial design professors Peter Fossick and Joel Wittkamp.

SCMP Young Post is a biweekly edition of the SCMP geared toward young adults. We will post the run date and link when the article is set to run.

Until then, here are some snapshots of Marcus and Jesse’s SCMP photo shoot. Way to represent SCAD, guys!

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

Lantau 2

Just a cable car behind on the trek up to the top of Lantau, where Buddha (or at least a giant statue of him) awaits visitors.

Marcus, Carl, Ryan and Pat from within a cable car.

Joining the tradition of burning incense on Buddha’s birthday.

Bradley is becoming a big fan of soy milk!

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