Disney Dreams Big for Young Scholars
- Walt Disney World Resort organized an exclusive mentoring event for Black students as well as other youths from underrepresented communities.
- The Disney Dreamers Academy selects 100 teenagers across the United States to take part in this multi-day event in April.
- The event took place on Martin Luther King Day, aimed to promote career awareness and inspire these students to dream big!
- Sophia, a 16-year old from New Jersey with varied interests and an aspiration to become an aerospace engineer, was among the selectees featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America”.
- This event includes interactions with business magnates, Disney executives, prominent individuals, and educators to boost students’ intricate career inspirations.
- Disney has been running this initiative since 2008 and has till date pumped fuel into the dreams of more than 1,600 students, helping to shape their futures.
- Further information about the Disney Dreamers Academy is available on their official website and social media channels.
The Realist’s Take
Listen folks, who needs fairy godmothers when Mickey is cookin’ up some magic for our bright young minds? Turning the tables around, Disney trades away the glass slippers for spectacular career goals, as this is definitely not a case of your average “happily ever after”. Here’s to appreciating Disney’s shift from sleeping beauties to soaring rockets, because if there’s something we’ve learned, it’s that ‘dreaming’ is way more fun when Disney’s involved! And let’s not trivialize that admirable initiative of celebrating Dr. King’s Day with a noble cause of inspiring the dreamers. Bet we’re just one fairy dust sprinkle away from having an all-new theme park – The Disney Dreamers’ World!
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