Disney’s Dreamers Academy Graduating Class
When you were in High School and you were asked the famous question “what are your plans after graduation?” what was your answer? Coming from a smaller town, as in Valley City, I wanted to do something bigger, newer and more exciting than I thought this town could offer me! (Look where I am now) As young adults you have a lot of ambitions and dreams but you just need that little extra push of motivation.
100 lucky students from all across the country got that extra bit of motivation. They received the opportunity to participate in the innovative career program called Disney’s Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL. They had three days of interactive workshops, motivational talks and hands-on creative experiences. After completing these 3 days of activities they got to participate in the commencement exercise at Epcot.
The students got to experience some careers first hand. Some of the things they got to do were in the areas of culinary arts, animation, set design and production, and all the way to the business of sports. They had well known speakers in all of those areas come and give a speech/demonstration on what they do every day in that particular career field.
These 100 lucky students were chosen out of more than 4,000 applicants. They were nominated by teachers, parents, church leaders, and even their student peers. Each student of the Disney’s Dreamer Academy showed the dream, perseverance, and enthusiasm to do great things in their future.
This experience for the students was also made possible by Kodak. They sponsored the career workshop “Each One, Teach One!” and gave each student a Kodak EasyShare digital camera.
This pertains to Ch. 5 in almost all of the areas. The Disney’s Dreamer Academy needed to make goals, develop strategies, and define, prioritize and analyze who they wanted to reach and who their demographics were going to be. Also what the goals that each student needed to meet in order to be a participant were going to be. They needed to figure out how to reach the teachers, parents, and church leaders in order for them to even know this opportunity was available to the students. The academy also needed a budget, schedule and assign responsibilities to their workers in order for the events to run smoothly. Also they needed to find some sponsors, one that believed in what they were doing and more importantly believed in the young adults attending the Disney’s Dreamer Academy.
I did my college internship through Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, FL from May 2006 to January 2007 and had the time of my life. I did not participate in the Disney’s Dreamer Academy but I did the College Program they offered. You are placed in a resort or park right on property and given a particular job. You get to see how such a huge and successful corporation is run. All the behind the scenes work that goes on and the amount of people in a variety of different career fields it takes for even one show to go on. I think Disney offers great programs for the development of the future of kids. I personally would recommend to anybody to take any opportunities that WDW has to offer and DO THEM. It’s a great life experience.
When you were in High School and you were asked the famous question “what are your plans after graduation?” what was your answer? Coming from a smaller town, as in Valley City, I wanted to do something bigger, newer and more exciting than I thought this town could offer me! (Look where I am now) As young adults you have a lot of ambitions and dreams but you just need that little extra push of motivation.
100 lucky students from all across the country got that extra bit of motivation. They received the opportunity to participate in the innovative career program called Disney’s Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL. They had three days of interactive workshops, motivational talks and hands-on creative experiences. After completing these 3 days of activities they got to participate in the commencement exercise at Epcot.
The students got to experience some careers first hand. Some of the things they got to do were in the areas of culinary arts, animation, set design and production, and all the way to the business of sports. They had well known speakers in all of those areas come and give a speech/demonstration on what they do every day in that particular career field.
These 100 lucky students were chosen out of more than 4,000 applicants. They were nominated by teachers, parents, church leaders, and even their student peers. Each student of the Disney’s Dreamer Academy showed the dream, perseverance, and enthusiasm to do great things in their future.
This experience for the students was also made possible by Kodak. They sponsored the career workshop “Each One, Teach One!” and gave each student a Kodak EasyShare digital camera.
This pertains to Ch. 5 in almost all of the areas. The Disney’s Dreamer Academy needed to make goals, develop strategies, and define, prioritize and analyze who they wanted to reach and who their demographics were going to be. Also what the goals that each student needed to meet in order to be a participant were going to be. They needed to figure out how to reach the teachers, parents, and church leaders in order for them to even know this opportunity was available to the students. The academy also needed a budget, schedule and assign responsibilities to their workers in order for the events to run smoothly. Also they needed to find some sponsors, one that believed in what they were doing and more importantly believed in the young adults attending the Disney’s Dreamer Academy.
I did my college internship through Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, FL from May 2006 to January 2007 and had the time of my life. I did not participate in the Disney’s Dreamer Academy but I did the College Program they offered. You are placed in a resort or park right on property and given a particular job. You get to see how such a huge and successful corporation is run. All the behind the scenes work that goes on and the amount of people in a variety of different career fields it takes for even one show to go on. I think Disney offers great programs for the development of the future of kids. I personally would recommend to anybody to take any opportunities that WDW has to offer and DO THEM. It’s a great life experience.
