If the team places in the top three at regionals, they will win $5,000, according to the VIAC website. “Three winners are chosen from the high school and three from the middle school level,” said Shen. The winner of regionals will be announced tomorrow. The video and essays submitted for the Massachusetts competition will be judged, along with other state winners, at the New England regional competition. To complete the first round of the competition, the team submitted a three to five minute video explaining the application along with a written explination. Team members working on the VIAC include seniors Izzy Brand, Luke Fisher, Bill Shen, and juniors Nick Ambrosio, Matthew Hass, Amy Huang and Reiss-Mello, and are advised by science department head Amy Winston.
The team realized that students need a phone application to help them locate internships in their community. “We conducted a poll of over 200 kids from the school and 85 percent of them considered applying for an internship but only 20 percent of them applied,” said Reiss-Mello. Team members “realized that most students aren’t aware of all the internship opportunities around them,” said junior David Reiss-Mello, the captain of the VIAC group, which is a part of the science team. The objective of the challenge is to fix a problem the students find in their community. 6 with their concept of an application called Internus, which helps students find internships. Students from North’s science team won the state championship of the Verizon Innovative App Challenge (VIAC) Tuesday, Jan. : Judges did not select Internus as a New England regional finalist.
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