High-School Interns at Unbound Commerce Build Mobile App for NSHS Athletics

Student interns at Unbound Commerce (clockwise from lower left): Gianni Thompson, Rishab Chakravarthy, Emma Barake, Alexus Garcia, Luther Evans, Jay Garg and Maria Kuznetsova
Student interns at Unbound Commerce (clockwise from lower left): Gianni Thompson, Rishab Chakravarthy, Emma Barake, Alexus Garcia, Luther Evans, Jay Garg, and Maria Kuznetsova

This summer, as part of the Mayor’s Summer Internship Program, six high-school students worked at local e-commerce software company Unbound Commerce to build a mobile app for the Newton South HS Athletics Booster Club.  Their app presents sports schedules and scores, sells and displays season passes, accepts donations for the NSHS Athletics Booster Club, and displays tweets from the Athletics Department.

NSHS Athletic Director, Patricia Gonzalez said, “I was impressed by the students’ attention to detail, their willingness to listen and take suggestions. The students were very professional and delivered a great product.”

This was by far the largest internship team of this summer’s program, which had 38 interns at 24 sites.  In addition to this project, the interns received training in career effectiveness, current US import data laws and financial literacy.  In its first year in Newton, Unbound Commerce was generous to accept six interns and was thrilled with the results.  Keith Lietzke, Co-founder & CMO of Unbound Commerce said, “We were really delighted with our interns’ enthusiasm and dedication.  And their ability.  They worked hard to produce a great app that people will really like.  With help from our team at Unbound, the interns did all the coding themselves.  Very impressive!”

Once testing is complete and the app is registered, you’ll be able to find a link to it on the NSHS Booster Club site.