Shanghai Disney to hold imaginations design competition

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Shanghai Disney Resort announced plans on Friday to launch an imaginations design competition this summer to seek creative talent.

The activity, known as Disney Imaginations Shanghai Design Competition, is inspired by the Walt Disney Imagineerings Imaginations Design Competition. It aims to find and nurture the next generation of dreamers and doers.

File of the night view of Shanghai Disney Resort. /VCG Photo

Students from five Shanghai universities, including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Theater Academy, East China University of Science and Technology, will be invited to participate in the competition.

Shanghai Disney Resort said it hopes the competition will inspire creativity and innovation in college students.

The winning team will be offered a learning experience at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, California, the US, fully sponsored by Shanghai Disney Resort, as well as an internship at Shanghai Disney Resort, said the organizer.

File of a theme park at the Shanghai Disney Resort. /VCG Photo

First started in 1991 by Disney Legend and Imagineering executives, the annual Imaginations Design Competition inspired Hong Kong Disneyland Resort to launch the Disney Imaginations Hong Kong in 2011.

Shanghai Disney Resort, which opened in 2016, is the first Disney resort destination in the Chinese mainland and the sixth in the world.

Disney's Imagineers from all over the world were responsible for developing, designing, and creating Shanghai Disney Resort, including its newly opened Disney Pixar Toy Story Land.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency