Turn Off the T.V. and The Video Games...A New Educational Product Promotes Human Interaction While Helping People To "Connect" With One Another
Imagine challenging the in-laws to building a unique structure on Thanksgiving Day, instead of the traditional backyard football game. Not tough enough for you? Try building it with your eyes closed, or how about using only your left hands? Working in a cooperative manner like this is called team building…with Toobeez.
Wayne, PA (PRWEB) September 16, 2004 –- Turn off the TV and the computer
games, there’s a new educational product that’s helping families, friends, and
peers to interact with one another.
Imagine challenging the in-laws to
building a unique structure on Thanksgiving Day, instead of the traditional
backyard football game. Not tough enough for you? Try building it with your eyes
closed, or how about using only your left hands? Working in a cooperative manner
like this is called team building...with Toobeez.
Toobeez is The Ultimate Giant Construction Building System, officially
introduced to America last fall. Toobeez is the flagship product of Connectable
Color Tubes, LLC, a privately held company based in Pennsylvania.
What
are Toobeez? Toobeez are a “life size” construction system that features
colorful tubes and spheres that lock together at many different angles. The tube
sizes range from 11 inches to nearly 3 feet and are one and a half inches in
diameter, making them easy for children and adults to handle.
According
to Joseph A. Donahue, founder of the company and the developer of Toobeez, “Our
product has captured the attention of many parents, schools, daycare centers,
children’s museums, team building companies, corporate trainers, and health
professionals across America.” The target audience for this new and innovative
product is from 4 to 104 years of age.
Toobeez helps to promote human
interaction, and gives you the freedom to create almost whatever you can
imagine. You can build many different types of structures, such as forts,
castles, playhouses, mazes, obstacle courses, dollhouses, puppet theatres,
soccer goals, airplanes, spaceships, or animals. The possibilities are really
almost endless.
As an educational tool, the four key areas of child
development Toobeez can help address are physical development, cognitive
development, social / emotional development, and language development.
“We are proud to announce the availability of our newest joint venture
product, The Official Toobeez Team Building Games Activity Guide”, said Donahue.
Available on a CD, it features 25 different interactive exercise’ that can be
lead by a parent, teacher, or trainer. PC or Mac compatible, it also contains
video of the many different activities, color photos, interviews, and notes to
help lead a group. If printed, it contains over 140 pages combined. This product
was developed in a partnership with Tom Heck, an internationally renowned
trainer of team building games based in Asheville, NC.
The mission of
Heck’s company, Life Coach, Inc. is to help people connect through thoughtful,
engaging and fun team building activities. Heck currently trains several
thousand people located in 64 countries how to lead activities that promote team
and leadership development and he says Toobeez is one of his favorite team
building props for the following reasons:
1. It’s multi-use – allowing
you to lead multiple games. This is the number one factor Heck looks for in a
team building game product.
2. It’s easy to travel with and store – Toobeez
comes with a large storage bag.
3. It’s durable – When you work with as many
groups as Heck does, durability and quality count.
4. Newness Factor – Heck
frequently leads “train the trainer” workshops and everyone loves the newest
products.
5. Most Importantly – It’s an interactive product. It’s perfect
for people of all ages, indoors, outdoors, or in a corporate meeting room" said
Heck.
“When combined, a set a Toobeez and the interactive CD, you get our
Interactive Family Edition” said Donahue. More information is available by
visiting the companies website or by calling the company direct.
About
Toobeez and Connectable Color Tubes, LLC
Toobeez has won a Fall 2004 Creative
Child Magazine Preferred Product Award. Toobeez are available in over 130
specialty toy and educational stores across America, as well as numerous
educational catalogs and websites. Toobeez is the flagship product of
Connectable Color Tubes (CCT), a privately held company based in Wayne,
Pennsylvania. Founded in 2001 by Joseph A. Donahue, CCT specializes in the
development of large construction toy lines and accessories. For more
information about this patented product, visit the web site at www.toobeez.com CCT is a member
of the Better Business Bureau and the American Specialty Toy Retailing
Association.
Contact:
Joseph Donahue
1204 Thomas Road
Wayne, PA
19087
610-975-0102
509-756-9814 (fax)
About Tom Heck and Life
Coach, Inc.
Tom Heck is a passionate teacher of team building games for the
purpose of transforming individuals, organizations and communities. Through his
website www.teachmeteamwork.com and live seminars he teaches educators
of all types how to lead team building games to build teams, develop leaders and
enhance connection. More than 8,000 people in 65 countries read Tom’s team
building games e-newsletter. He is the inventor of 17 team building games and
the author of several multimedia training CDs all of which are sold worldwide.
Contact:
Tom Heck
PO Box 1831
Asheville, NC 28802
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