Disney Dreamers Academy 2024

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Actress and performer Dara Reneé, Disney executive Tracy Powell and Disney's Princess Tiana ride in the grand marshal vehicle alongside aspiring engineering student Sophia Halm, one of the 100 teens participating in Disney Dreamers Academy 2024 at Walt Disney World Resort on April 4, 2024, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (Mark Ashman, photographer)

Four-time Olympic gold medal track star Sanya Richards-Ross talks to students about maintaining a healthy lifestyle while hosting an empowerment session during Disney Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista Fla. on April 6, 2024. (Mark Ashman, photographer)

DJ Big Tigger surprises high school student and aspiring DJ Kyla Marie Griffith (Laurelton Queens, NY) with a one-on-one mentoring session during Disney Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. on April 6, 2024. DJ Big Tigger invited Griffith to deejay with him during a Saturday night dance party sponsored by Sprite. (Mark Ashman, photographer)

Disney Dreamers Academy students take part in an emotional commencement ceremony at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. on April 7, 2024. The event featured popular Disney entertainment, beloved Disney characters, confetti, music and a moving class ring ceremony filled with joyful hugs and happy tears from students, parents and chaperones. (Mark Ashman, photographer)

ABC TV series ‘Shark Tank,’ star Daymond John surprises TeLario Watkins (Blacklick, Ohio) during the Disney Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. on April 6, 2024. John presented Watkins with a personal invitation to Los Angeles, Calif. to watch a taping of ‘Shark Tank.’ (Mark Ashman, photographer)

Disney Dreamer Academy students march down Main Street U.S.A., at Magic Kingdom Park in a celebratory parade to kick off the five-day mentoring event at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Mark Ashman, photographer)

Disney Dreamers Academy “DREAMbassador,” Dara Reneé, best known for her role in ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,’ was the headliner at welcome celebration at Disney Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on April 4, 2024. Renee also took part in festive parade with the students at Magic Kingdom Park to kick off the five-day event. (Mark Ashman, photographer)

Disney Dreamers Academy

Disney Dreamers Academy Commencement Ceremony 2024

Disney Dreamers Academy Executive Champion Tracey Powell and Mickey Mouse take part in a moving commencement ceremony at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. on April 7, 2024. (Mark Ashman, photographer)

The names of the 100 high school students selected for this year’s Disney Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort appear on a billboard in Times Square in New York City. The 2023 class was announced today when one student was surprised with the news on national TV at her New Jersey school. Disney Dreamers Academy in late March is a mentoring program hosted annually by Walt Disney World Resort that fosters the dreams of Black students and teens from underrepresented communities. (ABC/Jeff Neria)

Flanked by her mother amid a sea of confetti, Mosope Aina, an aspiring neurosurgeon, was surprised by Mickey Mouse and Disney Dreamers Academy executive champion Tracey Powell on national TV on January 13, 2023 at her school in Newark, N.J. with the news of her selection to Disney Dreamers Academy at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Disney Dreamers Academy in late March is a mentoring program hosted annually by Walt Disney World Resort that fosters the dreams of Black students and teens from underrepresented communities. (ABC/Michael Le Brecht II)