St. Louis high school student Jack Lynch’s winning entry in the National Eye Institute’s teen video competition started with a final project in his physics class.
One of the options for the assignment from his teacher at the Whitfield School in Creve Coeur was to submit a STEM-related video to a national contest, and he knew this was the perfect way to combine his passions for video production and fishing.
Lynch, 17, started learning how to edit videos when he was 12 years old, and it became his passion. He said he begged his parents to get him a computer for his birthday so he could download Adobe After Effects, and now he spends hours a day producing videos. His love for fishing started long before that, with trips to Cape Girardeau every summer to fish with his grandpa…