People's Daily Online, Hong Kong, January 31 (Reporter Chen Ran) The "Disney Imagineering Hong Kong Challenge 2024" award ceremony was held on the 31st at the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. The annual challenge aims to allow students to use their bold imagination and explore new entertainment experiences with design and creativity.
According to reports, this competition has expanded to more tertiary institutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and has opened registration to students from all disciplines for the first time, attracting nearly a hundred teams and more than 300 students from Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Shenzhen and Macau. Active participation. The theme of the competition revolves around sustainable development and diversity and inclusion. The participating students must start from the perspective of conservation and use their ingenuity to design new educational experience projects to showcase the culture related to environmental protection and conservation.
Mr Yeung Yun-hung, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. He said that he was very happy to see the competition further expand in the Greater Bay Area and allow young people from different backgrounds to communicate on the same stage and showcase their unlimited creativity. He also thanked Hong Kong Disney for its continued efforts over the years to provide young people with opportunities to bravely pursue their dreams and shine.
Mok Wai-ting, CEO of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, said the Challenge holds a special place at Hong Kong Disney because it inspires innovative storytelling and implements Disney’s core spirit while supporting youth development. He encouraged students to keep learning, be brave in innovation, and continue to show their creativity in different industries in the future.
The Disney Imagineering Challenge aims to discover and train young talents to become "Imagineers." In this competition, an inter-school and inter-disciplinary student team from the Education University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University won the championship. They will receive a cash prize of HK$25,000 and will conduct a three-month training at Hong Kong Disneyland. internship, and even received funding to travel to other Disney resorts for exchange and study. The runner-up and third runner-up were won by teams from the University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University Joint International College respectively. (People's Daily Online)