Disney
recruits designers
By Ramón Torres
On-line Forty-Niner
Walt
Disney’s Imagi-Nations has come to Cal State
Long Beach to recruit talented students.
Imagi-Nations, a university design competition
created and sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering,
promotes diversity and maintains an environment
that fosters new ideas that can reflect
Disney’s community, said Nancy Soliman,
Walt Disney Imagineering representative.
The 2003 Imagi-Nations design competition
information session, sponsored by Walt Disney
Imagineering and the CSULB Career Development
Center, was held Monday at the North Campus
Center Conference Room.
“We want the people who built those parks,
and built those rides and attractions to
be reflective of the kind of people that
come in and are guests in our park,” Soliman
said. “This competition has been around
for the past 10 years, but this is the first
time we’re presenting it at this university.”
Juniors, seniors and graduate students can
entered the competition as an individual
or as a team, but must be from a participating
engineering or architecture association
or a university student majoring in one
of the following: fine arts, digital arts,
theatrical design and production or creative
writing, according to the information given
at the event.
Employer relations coordinator at the CSULB
Career Development Center Jina Flores, said
they were exited to have Walt Disney Imagineering
at CSULB because they have never recruited
at this campus before.
“The whole purpose is to have the students
design either a theme park or new attraction
and then from there it could be a possible
position with Disney,” Flores said. “So
hopefully it will open doors to other possible
recruitment.”
“I think it’s good for a lot of a minorities
who wouldn’t have the opportunity to get
into this field otherwise,” graphic design
student Jennifer Mcmillan said. “It is an
opportunity for us to get in, and kind of
get our feet wet and get an opportunity
to work for Disney.”
Submitted ideas must be original and only
one entry per team or individual will be
accepted. Preliminary entries will be accepted
beginning Jan. 1, 2003 and must be received
by Jan. 31.
Participants must be full-time, junior or
senior level college students as of June
2. Teams must consist of at least two, but
no more than four students.
Students seeking more information should
contact the Career Development Center.
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