African Leadership Program Twenty One Toys held a workshop at Engineers Without Borders Canada for their African Leadership Program: A forum of greater collaboration between Southern and Northern hemispheres for African Delegates from 4 countries (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Zambia and Malawi) to a leadership experience in Canada. Founder Ilana Ben-Ari presented her Connexions Toy for [...]
Watch a video of the Grove grade 1 students playing: Ableism month at The Grove Twenty One Toys held a workshop at The Grove this January for Ableism week, defined as a form of discrimination or social prejudice against people with disabilities. Founder, Ilana Ben-Ari presented the CONNEXIONS toy to Kristina Katsoras’s grade 1 class [...]
Connexions Toy in Ugandan Daycare and Orphanage This fall we worked with Raising the Village, a non-profit organization that provides critical infrastructure, tools and training to recovering villages in Uganda. Founder Shawn Cheung and International Programs officer Krystal Muise were trained on the CONNEXIONS toy and brought it with them to the Grace Daycare and [...]
Re-imagining our education system for the 21st century Art Science and the Brain: New Models of Learning for the 21st Century was held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, Ontario on Monday, October 31 to Tuesday, November 1, 2011. “The Conference featured some of the most innovative educational thinkers and entrepreneurs in Canada and [...]
The business of startups Twenty One Toys presented at this years International Startup Festival in Montreal, Quebec. “The International Startup Festival is a three-day conference (July 13th-15th, 2011) on the business of startups. It brings together industry veterans and fresh faces, thought leaders and technology giants from around the world, for a series of lean, [...]
For the month of July we will be working at Shad Valley at Carleton University. Mentoring and teaching the young “leaders of tomorrow” in a program devoted to the entrepreneurial spirit and introducing some of the top high school students across Canada to the exciting world of social innovation. While there we will be having a workshop with the Twonicorn toy and plan on learning just as much as we are teaching.
We are thrilled to announce that we are one of 16 teams (chosen from 200) who are participating in Startup Sauna; an intensive 7 week entrepreneurial program at the amazing Aalto Venture Garage in Helsinki, Finland!
An animation of Alan Watts’s lecture on music and life. It’s a wonderful reminder to not miss the point of it all, and to remember to enjoy the journey.
For the spring of 2011 we will be overseas expanding our minds and hearts at Aalto University and Design Against Crime. What an adventure!!
Saturday, Feb.19th Ilana Ben-Ari spoke at TEDxConcordia about her award winning toy for the visually impaired.