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USU Students - Disney Finalists
Mechanical Engineering student, Philip Le Goubin, is on the USU team chosen to be a finalist in the Walt Disney ImagiNations Design Competition.
Disney holds this competition annually. It is a program sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering in which students can develop and show off their talents while building professional connections with the Imagineers.
The USU team, along with the five other finalists from competing colleges, traveled to Glendale, Calif. for five days where they presented their team projects to Imagineering executives, met and networked with creative Imagineers, and interviewed for paid internships.
"It's an incredible opportunity," said team member, Jason Cooper. "They [the Imagineering team] make people smile, and so to come down here and make them smile was a whole different experience. This has always been something I've wanted to do."
The USU design team was comprised of three students: Jason Cooper, who graduated with a bachelor's in landscape architecture from USU in 2010; Adam Dambrink, who is majoring in landscape architecture and environmental planning at USU; and Philip Le Goubin who is a student in mechanical engineering.
The design challenge for this year's competition was to create "the Disney experience" for the year 3011. The other schools who participated in the finals include California State Polytechnic University - Pomona, Carnegie Mellon University, North Carolina State University, Savannah College of Art & Design and the University of California, Berkeley.
Even with the list of competitors they are facing, USU's team feels positively about the competition.
"Even though we're all finalists, and even though they do select a winner, none of that really matters to us; we consider ourselves winners for getting here," said Cooper. "The opportunity to network with Imagineers is almost priceless to us."
Competition winners will be announced in an awards ceremony scheduled for Feb. 3.