Twenty One Toys will be at Canada’s foremost HR event of the year, HRPA 2013 Annual Conference and Trade Show from January 23 – 25, 2013. Join us to see world-class keynote speakers, cutting edge HR sessions, networking opportunities, a fabulous trade show (where you’ll find our booth, Exhibit 928) and over 4,500 attendees at the [...]
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Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 in Montreal Twenty One Toys had the opportunity to speak at Dawson College in November. Coinciding with Global Entrepreneurship Week, Entrepreneurship Week (Eweek) was hosted by Dawson College’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and was an intense four-day long camp for aspiring entrepreneurs. The Eweek Speaker Series featured our founder [...]
Toys delivered to 50+ educators in the Peel region We had the opportunity to visit the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board office in Mississauga this fall, where we trained 50 itinerant staff on how to use the Connexions Toy in schools. Boxes full of our CONNEXIONS™ toys (30 sets to be exact, seen below in transit) are now [...]
Fun, Funding and Learning Twenty One Toys was one of five recipients selected from across Canada for the 2012 Spin Master Innovation Program – and we could not be more excited to be a part of it! As part of the program, we had an incredible opportunity at the Spin Master Launch Pad event, hosted [...]
“The toy led to a rich discussion on how important dialogue, understanding and empathy are for effective collaboration, and provided a diverse group of participants (from Ghana, Malawi, Canada, France and beyond) with a common language to help explore cultural differences in communication, collaboration, and leadership. The toy became, for our participants, a workshop experience that helped them highlight issues they have struggled with in their own projects.” – Facilitator Drew Dudley of Nuance Leadership Development
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.