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Build-a-Hand for Youth

A STEM activity that teaches empathy as well as science

Build-a-Hand is the award-winning project that is putting prosthetic hands on amputees in developing countries while building purpose-driven teams and leaders. It’s about changing lives and accessing the potential of your heads, hands, and hearts to build a better team, a better classroom, and a better world.

Now, you are able to help fund and build LN-4 prosthetic hands that are needed by tens of thousands of people in developing countries around the world. Together, we will provide these life-changing gifts at no cost to the recipients.

The process has been crafted to teach collaboration, commitment, and quality – born from a deeper sense of connection to your work, your classmates, your teammates, and community. With a focus on others, it’s remarkable how much we learn about ourselves.

Contact Odyssey For Youth to see how your organization or school can participate in this innovative and rewarding program.

Build-a-Hand for Youth Program Video

Vanguard

“Much to our delight, our participants had a terrific experience with the Helping Hands activity… and spent the remainder of the conference talking about it! The program that Odyssey Teams has developed is by far the most memorable, fulfilling, and moving “teambuilding” experience we have participated in”

Brandy L Szever, Event Planner, Conference & Event Planning, Vanguard

Arrow Electronics, Inc.

“It is a great cause and a great program and the feedback that we received from the team far and away was that it was the best team building event they have ever participated in. Not to forget the perspective, collaboration, and business aspects that were driven home as well. I heard “life changing” on several occasions! It was the perfect way to start out our meeting and really set the tone for what we wanted to accomplish. We all walked away better for it and I’ve never seen so much enthusiasm from this group as they left a meeting like this getting ready to go back and make a difference in their jobs, and their lives!"

Chad Czerniak, Senior NetApp Marketing Manager, Arrow Electronics

Premier Retail Network

“Thank you and your team for two great days of training. I couldn’t be more pleased with the training team you assembled, the content and how the material was received by the participants. You listened to our challenges and geared a program that got right to heart of some of our key management/organizational development issues. It was amazing to sit back and watch the light bulbs go on for our managers. I look forward to them taking the learnings back to the work place and applying them.”

Christine Stout, Premier Retail Network

Ariat International

“So many employees have approached to say how moved they were by by the bike build. It was such a positive lesson on working together and asking for help. The afternoon left a mark on everyone who participated in such a positive way.”

Cindy Silva, Executive Assistant to Beth Cross, CEO, Ariat International Inc.

United Healthcare

“Thank you for putting together and facilitating a fabulous collaboration exercise in Orlando. We’ve done a lot of different team-building activities and other types of exercises through the years, but this one was simply extraordinary. I have lost count of how many participants have grabbed me or emailed me to tell me how impactful it was to them on a professional and personal level. I was showing my kids last night the pictures we took on our iPhones, and they were amazed.”

Elana McFann, United Healthcare

Honeywell

“Odyssey Teams touched our team members, and our team members are taking that feeling and making positive action.”

Gretchen Chismar, US Payroll Manager, Honeywell

Wells Fargo

“We really had an opportunity to know each other better and to have some fun together in a way that increases our commitment to work together effectively. But the biggest payoff of all was the combined feeling of having accomplished something with such an impact to people around the world.”

Jean E. Deering, AVP Learning & Development Manager, BD/SBS L&D, Wells Fargo

MACH

“Odyssey Teams touched 970 people who are at an impressionable point in their lives. I’m confident that the wisdom and emotion Odyssey shared will positively impact their entire careers.”

Jenna Ballestrino, Director, Microsoft Academy for College Hires (MACH)

BCD Meetings & Events

“Our team unanimously voted the 3 hours with Odyssey Teams was the most beneficial part of our entire meeting.”

Julie C., VP, Partner & Industry Relations, BCD Meeting & Incentives

GE Lighting

“The Helping Hands event structure + the personal connection to the prosthetic hands have left a lasting impression on our team. Many people still reference the event 90 days later.”

Megan A. Westman, Organization & Talent Development Leader, GE Lighting

GE Lighting

“While being a true help for others, the Odyssey Teams program incorporated important elements of leadership and teamwork that enlightened our own team members.”

Melissa Hoang, GE Lighting

Merck

“Mission accomplished! The Odyssey Teams session exceeded every expectation I had. It created a unity with our teams and connected people in meaningful and thought-provoking inner-soul searching ways.”

Michelle Stokes, Merck

AMN Healthcare

“Odyssey Teams wowed everyone. Feedback from executives to new team members has been phenomenal and the lessons learned will be lasting.”

Ralph S. Henderson, President Nurse and Allied Staffing, AMN Healthcare

Pernod Recard USA

“We found that working together for a worthwhile cause gave us perspective on new ways to use our talents to use for the good of others while learning important lessons about our own capabilities. Thank you, Odyssey Teams.”

Tim Somers, Directory of Sales Training, Pernod Ricard USA

“Odyssey Teams' unique program brought our team closer together on many levels, especially as partners in delivering value to our clients.”

Merrill Lynch

University of Pennsylvania

“In my opinion, Odyssey Teams' keynote and facilitation set the foundation and tone for an impactful two-day, staff retreat—I’m not sure we would have gotten to that level without Odyssey Teams kicking it off!”

Megan Moser, Associate Director, Wharton Leadership Program The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Shire

"Odyssey Teams provided the perfect foundation and jumping-off point for what our meeting was designed to accomplish. Helping Hands became the metaphor for how our team aspires to work together.”

Julie Person, Head of HR Planning and Service Delivery, Shire

Kaiser Permanente

“We’ve sung Odyssey Teams' praises to everyone we know. Odyssey Teams has the unique ability to impact a group at the core with the right amount of humor.”

My-An Le, Project Manager Large Group Account Management, Kaiser Permanente Great Los Angeles

“Since the program, I have caught myself being myself and working on being a better person, husband, father, co-worker and friend. Perspective is everything…”

Dan Link, SDCDA

“Having experienced team building events all over the world, I must admit that nothing will top the experience we had with Odyssey Teams. Building unity, teamwork, collaboration - seeing real people, extending beyond themselves to help others, has been priceless.”

Kristen Muckleroy, Sr. Marketing Manager, Fiberlink Communications

“Odyssey Teams left us with a common language in which our company can build upon to achieve greatness.”

Pete Brunner, BCSI

“Thank you very much for your help in making my meeting so successful and connecting the dots to all of my key messages in such a meaningful way.”

Tracy Tannenbaum, Vice President of Marketing, Heritage Homes

“The experience of building the hands was deeply emotional and humbling for all. Thank you again for strengthening our team’s relationships, bringing value to life and making a difference for our team and beyond!”

Rosanna

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