The Schwab Foundation, Fort Wayne, Indiana, is working with Disney to bring a new, exciting experience to high school students in northeast Indiana. The Disney Dreamers Academy is offering an opportunity for students to participate in their 2012 Disney Dreamers Academy. The Schwab Foundation has partnered with Disney to fund the marketing effort in this area.
One hundred winners will be selected to attend the workshop. As one of the winners of the contest, that student will be part of an immersive four-day program at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida in March 2012. More than 20 personalized and interactive “Deep Dive” educational workshops will allow the students to become fully immersed in various career experiences.
High schools in seven northeast Indiana counties (Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Wells, and Whitney) have been sent information about the Academy to distribute to interested students in their schools.
Entrants will complete three essays answering these three questions:
- Essay I Question: If you were asked by Steve Harvey to tell your story, what would your story be?
- Essay II Question: Describe an experience or person in your life that had a big impact on you. Discuss the experience and how it has affected your goals for the future. Describe how you would be different if this experience or person was not a part of your life.
- Essay III Question: What are your dreams after high school? How will Disney’s Dreamers Academy help to make those dreams come true?
“We would be delighted if some winners come from northeast Indiana,” said Jim Johnston, Olin B. and Desta Schwab Foundation board president, “and obtain the once-in-a-lifetime experience of the Disney Dreamers Academy.”
Focusing on students in grades 6 to 12, the mission of the Foundation is to identify and support organizations that have programs for teaching 21st century job skills and for counseling, testing, guiding, and educating young people in the careers, occupations or professions to which they are best suited.
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