If you are wondering whether you are among those applicants who can enter the Walt Disney Imaginations Design Competition Project Challenge, you should know the following rules.
Full Description
The winners will get a paid internship at Imagineering and other Walt Disney Company business units.
The number of awardees will be based on project needs.
Who's eligible?
Teams must consist of at least two and no more than four participants and each team participant must meet the following requirements:
He/she has to be a student at least 18 years of age with junior, senior or equivalent standing or full-time graduate student in a college or university in the United States.
Also, he/she has to be currently enrolled in one of the following disciplines or a graduate from a college in the United States who is a resident of the United States for the duration of the competition and graduated in one of the disciplines listed.
- Animation
- Architecture
- Communications
- Computer Science
- Construction/ Project Management
- Creative Writing/ Screenwriting/ Playwriting
- Design
- Engineering
- English
- Fine Arts
- Game Design and/or Development
- Graphic / Communications Design
- Illustration
- Industrial Design
- Interactive Media Design
- Interior Design
- Landscape Architecture
- Media Production (Digital, TV, Film)
- Theater Design and Production
- Urban Planning
- Visual Arts
Previous finalists who have presented a submission at Walt Disney Imagineering are not eligible to participate, as well as current or former employees or contractors of Walt Disney Imagineering and Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, Inc. and their immediate family.
How to Apply
Every participant will be required to tell his/her story as it pertains to this project and the role he/she played in it.
Competition deadlines have to be respected if the team wants to be considered for the award.
The Application Period lasts from August 20 to October. 11, and the Project Submission Deadline is November 7th.
To start an application, the team leader needs to complete the online team registration process and then he/she will receive an email with a link to print the Registration Form.
All team members and their authorized college or university representatives must sign the Registration Form.
Plus, the team member must submit a letter from his or her university to verify class standing and enrollment which should be written on college or university letterhead, and signed by an authorized representative of the university.
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