Benjamin Twiest

The Disney College Program was an incredible opportunity for students like myself to gain work experience in several different fields at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Some of these fields include working attractions, food service, merchandise, character performing, and so much more. I personally was given the amazing role of being a best friend to Goofy for resort guests. Being able to work with a classic and wonderful character for thousands of families was truly a once in a life time experience. During this time, I was also enrolled in a two month engineering program that was run by the Walt Disney World Resort engineering group FOS (Field Operations and Services). Inside this program, we were given the exciting opportunity to work in groups and individually to create our own attractions and theme parks in order to understand how the engineering process is done at Walt Disney World. This class on several occasions demonstrated to us how the parks, rides, shows, hotels, and other aspects of the company were affected by the engineers in terms of design, function, and implementation. We also met several engineers who worked for the company at Walt Disney World Resort and Walt Disney Imagineering who volunteered their time to demonstrate the multiple different engineering fields that help run and maintain the Disney parks all around the world. Overall, this program was an incredible opportunity to be a part of and I enjoyed learning about all of the various levels of engineering and performing at Walt Disney World.