Video Contest for Kids to Form the Real-Life BIG HERO 6

Calling all young innovators! Heroes wanted! XPRIZE has joined forces with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Disney Corporate Citizenship to bring an amazing video contest to form the real-life Big Hero 6, an action-packed comedy-adventure! Six winners will win a trip to LA to walk the Red Carpet at the Hollywood Premiere of Disney’s Big Hero 6. That’s not all! They will go behind the scenes of Walt Disney Animation Studios!

Young people between the ages of 8 and 17 are invited to harness their creativity and come up with innovative ideas to tackle the world’s biggest challenges using science, technology, engineering, art and/or mathematics.

Amazing, right!?! I can’t wait to try this with my son. He loves creating videos so I know this will get him excited!

The six winners, the real-life Big Hero 6, will travel to Los Angeles to walk the red carpet at the film’s Hollywood premiere in early November, go behind the scenes and meet the creative minds at both Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering, join a special “Visioneering™” experience at XPRIZE headquarters, plus other prizes.

Video Submissions will be judged on innovation, creativity and presentation. Twenty (20) finalists will be selected based on the highest scores resulting from preliminary scoring by XPRIZE judges.  In mid October, a panel of luminary S.T.E.A.M. expert judges will evaluate the twenty finalists’ submissions and six (6) winners will be selected through a combination of the expert judges’ scores and public voting results.

Said Walt Disney Animation Studios President Ed Catmull, “We are thrilled to work with XPRIZE to find real-life young heroes whose desire is to tackle the world’s great challenges. It’s an honor for all of us at Walt Disney Animation Studios to welcome them at our Studio and at the premiere of Big Hero 6. (more…)