Education by Entertainment: 2025 Year in Review – Ronald G. Shapiro, PhD

Enjoy viewing nine photo albums from our 2025 "Education by Entertainment" programs. See how we use interactive, TV-game-show-style programs designed to demonstrate how people think, learn, and lead to improve safety, productivity and performance.

2025 Highlights Include:

Diverse Audiences: Including programs for professionals, high school and elementary school faculty and students.

Photo Journals: Visual documentation of live events at conferences, schools, expos and social events.

Testimonials: Recent feedback from 2025 events as well as a reflection on a previous program received in 2025 highlighting the "joy" and "playful" nature of these educational sessions.

Championships: Recognition of our 2025 Champions of the Year across multiple categories.

FUN: Watch people having FUN breaking records and achieving their goals in our amazing "How Many Beanie Babies Can You Carry?" activity. Participants navigate the room or expo grounds blindfolded stopping to shake hands with at least six guests! Would you believe the current record is 115?

This deck provides a sampling of my recent work as a speaker and consultant, proving that learning—at any age or professional level—is most effective when it is a "Ton of Fun."

Contact: DrRonShapiro@gmail.com
Website: FunFunFun.Fun

Transcript

1. Ianna Castillo Third Quarter Champion ------ High School Champion Of The Year
2. Our Champions And Feedback From The Past 10 Years
5. I absolutely love what you are putting out into the world! You are spreading so much joy :) :) Your American Psychological Association (APA) 2009 Convention presentation was probably the first where I learned it was okay to have fun and have a session be light and playful. Thank you so incredibly much for that experience. Erica Buchholz, PhD Laughter & Happiness Expert June 4, 2025 Very Special 2025 Testimonial Erica Buchholz, 2009
6. Special Recognition For Our 2025 Quarterly Champions And Champions Of The Year
9. Photo Highlights
10. Multitasking With School Counselors Stand on one foot. Eyes closed. Recite the alphabet backwards.
11. Draw clockwise circles with your foot. Draw a big “6” with your hand.
12. Notice How Difficult It Is To Find A Sound Eyes closed. Point to the frog when I tap it. Perfect performance on left and right. Random performance in the middle.
13. Describe The Bandana & Find The Birthday Present Ask Yes/No Questions. Move around if you want to.
14. Attention To Details Lotion Katherine’s activity was to tell us what was on each of her hands. Easy to respond lotion on left hand, but what is on the right hand?
15. What Are We Seeing As We Look At You? Starring Janae Carson Janae listed her clothing quickly but took a while to include her rings, longer to include her necklace and even longer to include her nose piercing.
16. Inverted Vision
17. Match Your Gemini Description Dayna, Google Gemini reviewed your photos from the November Ocean State Networking Event and developed a checklist of six of your leadership characteristics. You have two minutes to tell us what is on the list. We are listening!!! Have FUN!!!
18. Carrying The Beanie Babies Outdoor Team Activity
19. Setting A New Record Carrying Beanie Babies
20. Champion’s Final Exam Katherine’s final exam was to name as many people in the room as she could. She named the speaker and began to recite random names. When she finally got to Katherine I asked her Katherine’s last name. She said “I am a Katherine” finally realizing she did not name herself. The important message here: Don’t Forget Yourself!!!
21. Nine Selected Program Photo Albums*: Human Factors Mind Games (2) Awards Programs (2) Outdoor Expo (1) Human Factors For Elementary School (1) Mind Games For School Counselors (1) Fundraisers (2) *Programs Appear In Chronological Order
23. Human Factors Mind Games Janae Carson
24. Mind Games Are: I like your explanation about this. It’s amazing. That’s very cool. Loved that I participated. Fun. I like the game... is very fun. I like everything. Thank you for coming. I liked the beanies challenge and one foot challenge.
25. Multitasking Stand on one foot. Eyes closed. Recite alphabet backwards.
26. Multitasking Draw clockwise circles with your foot and a big “6” with your hand.
27. Sound Localization Starring Alexsandro Dos Santos Eyes closed. Point to the frog when I tap it. Perfect performance on left and right. Random performance in the middle.
28. The Eyewitness Starring Alejandra Penate Describe The Bandana. Alejandra said it contained two balloons.
29. Eric Figueroa said there were no balloons!!!
30. Time To Find The Birthday Present Ask Yes/No Questions. Move around if you want to.
33. Details Starring Janae Carson
35. Perceptually Inverted Navigation Starring Daniel Mujo Shake hands Read the sign
36. Catch The Falling Dollar Starring Fabiola Cante & Evelyn Urizark
37. Carrying The Beanies Carry The Beanies Around The Room. Stop To Shake Hands Along The Way. Try Not To Drop Any. Janae Carson Alejandra Penate
38. Having Fun Carrying 31 Beanies
39. The Champion Janae Carson Blindfolded For Awards Presenttion.
40. Beanies Make Great Gifts & Prizes Gifts & Prizes
41. DrRonShapiro@gmail.com
42. First Quarter 2025 Awards Presentation Ronald G. Shapiro, PhD Central Falls High School April 7, 2025
43. Education By Entertainment Programs Are: ➢ Thank You For Coming And Supporting The Class ➢ This Was An Amazing Experience With You. ➢ Amazing. Thank you for everything!!! ➢ Really Fun And Entertaining. ➢ The Falling Dollars And Fun Activities. ➢ It Was So Fun. ➢ It Was Great. Come Back!
44. What Are We Seeing As We Look At You? Starring Janae Carson Janae listed her clothing quickly but took a while to include her rings, longer to include her necklace and even longer to include her nose piercing.
45. Catch The Falling Dollar Fabiola Cante & Evelyn Urizark
47. Time To Carry The Beanies Janae Carson Projected She Could Carry 40 Beanies
48. Alejandra Penate Loading The Beanies
52. The Journey Around The Room
53. Shaking Hands With Everyone
55. With A Special Handshake For Jadelyn
56. And Dr. Upegui
57. And Dr. Ron Shapiro
58. Janae Counting Her Prize Money $32.00 For Carrying All 65 Beanies And Setting The All-Time Record!!!
60. Time For The Surprise Award Presentation
61. Education By Entertainment First Quarter 2025 Champions
63. $25
64. The 65 Beanies We Want To Bring A Program To Your Business, School Or Social Event We Love Birthdays!!! We Put The FUN into FUNdraisers!!!
65. DrRonShapiro@gmail.com
66. Mind Games For Henry Barnard School Ronald G. Shapiro, PhD May 7, 2025 Principal Adair & Future Principal Teddy
67. Perceptually Inverted Navigation The prisms make everything appear upside down.
68. How Many Beanie Babies Can You Carry? Starring Teddy Teddy thought she could carry only 6 of these beanies
71. Teddy Actally Carried 53 Beanies & A Buddy!!!
72. Awesome Job Champion Teddy!!!
73. DrRonShapiro@gmail.com
74. At The Fun For The Field Resource Fair Sponsored By The Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Hartford CT June 6, 2025 Ronald G. Shapiro, PhD DrRonShapiro@GMail.Com Roxanna Castilla
75. We Offer Speaking, Doing & Special Activities For The Most Adventurous Guests
76. Samples Of Our Speaking Activities
77. One Of Our Activites For Our Most Adventurous Guests is How Many Beanie Babies Can You Carry? Once blindfolded: • We told Roxanna she would be visiting and shaking hands with vendors. • We asked her how many beanies she could carry while doing this. • She said 50. Roxanna had no idea what she would be doing.
78. Roxanna’s Friends Loaded Her With 75 Beanies!!!
79. Roxanna Was Fully Loaded And Eager To Get Started
80. Roxanna Posed For Photos With Her Friends
82. Roxanna Was Off To Visit Vendors
83. Vendor #1 Told Us All About His Yoga Practice
85. Vendor #2 Explaining Their Initiative
86. Vendor #3: Arts For Learning
87. Vendor #4: Read To Grow
88. Vendor #5: New Britain Museum of American Art
89. Vendor #6: Connecticut Alliance of Foster & Adoptive Families
91. Krystal Hernandez Spun Roxanna To Test Her Ability To Hold The Beanies
92. Roxanna Did Not Drop Any
93. Roxanna and Her Friends Posed With Friends From CFAF
94. Roxanna Made It To The Finish Line Without Dropping Any Beanies. At The Finish Line Before The Final Spins. The Final Spins. The Final Spins.
95. Roxanna Held On to 58 Of The Beanies After A Final Spin!!!
96. Roxanna’s Friends Said She Should Receive a $20.00 Prize. She Is Pictured Counting Her 10 $2.00 Bills.
97. Roxanna Is Our Champion Of The Day!!! She Set An All Time Record Having Carried 75 Beanies!!!
98. We Want To Bring A Program To Your Business, School Or Social Event We Love Birthdays!!! We Put The FUN into FUNdraisers!!!
99. Human Factors Mind Games Ianna Castillo
100. Education By Entertainment Programs Are:
101. Multitasking Stand on one foot. Eyes closed. Recite the alphabet backwards.
102. Multitasking Ianna Castillo
103. Draw clockwise circles with your foot and a big “6” with your hand.
104. Sound Localization Point to the frog being tapped. Perfect performance on the left and the right. Random performance in the middle. Starring Ever Amaya
105. The Eyewitness Starring Briana Schenck Briana viewed her bandana for a few seconds before being blindfolded with it. After being blindfolded for a short while she was asked about her bandana. She said that it contained red balloons. It has no balloons. Next, she found her present by asking good questions.
108. What Is On Your Hands? Starring Ianna Castillo
109. Smelling For Clues Ianna responded that there was lotion on her left hand after smelling. Telling us what was on right hand was more challenging
110. Feeling her hand did not help, either. After I touched Ianna’s finger nail she responded “nails”. She said she forgot that she had put on “nails”. People often misinterpret my question “What is on your hand?” and say I asked “What did I put on your hand?” The Answer
111. Inverted Vision Quevin Rivera
113. Catch The Falling Dollar Caught it!!! Ever Amaya
114. Catch The Falling Dollar Emelin A De los Santos , Quevin Rivera Money Jovanny S Lopez Money Money
115. Teamwork Ianna was blindfolded and told that her assignment was to carry as many beanies as she could while shaking hands with people. She did not think she could come close to the record of 75, but she actually set a new record of 90+, holding on to 78+ on her journey. Ianna Castillo Jasmin Cardona Mateo loading Ianna with beanies
116. Ever Amaya Jasmin Cardona Mateo Ianna Castillo Ianna Smiling As Her Support Team Loads The Beanies
117. Ianna with her support team (left to right): Quevin Rivera, Jasmin Cardona Mateo and Ever Amaya completed they journey to the front of the room.
119. Shaking Hands With Dr. Upegui Smiling All The Way!!!
120. Quevin Rivera Ever Amaya Briana Schenck Shaking Hands With Students
121. Greeting Dr. Ron Shapiro
122. Ianna Awarded The Champion Bear
123. Counting The Prize Money
124. The Beanie Babies: Before And After Being Loaded
125. DrRonShapiro@gmail.com
126. Quiz Time & 3Q 2025 Champion Award For Ianna Castillo By Dr Ronald G. Shapiro Central Falls High School Central Falls, RI September 30, 2025
127. Quiz Time & 3Q 2025 Champion Award For Ianna Castillo By Dr Ronald G. Shapiro Central Falls High School Central Falls, RI September 30, 2025
128. You are awesome. So Fun!!! I appreciated so much. Most fun I’ve had this year.’ Education By Entertainment Programs Are:
129. Details Starring Ianna Castillo Ianna, While you cannot see any of us, all of us are looking at you. Tell us exactly what we are seeing. Ianna listed all of her clothes. It took a while before she mentioned her nail polish, longer for her Apple watch and even longer for her bracelet.
130. Catch The Falling Six Dollars Starring Emelin A De los Santos Success!!!
131. Carrying 115 Beanie Babies Starring Ianna Castillo
132. Loading Ianna Castillo With Beanie Babies After Ianna was securely blindfolded, we convinced her to borrow my hoodie for the beanie carry. Then, she selected her support team. The team decided the most efficient way for Ianna to carry the beanies was to fill the hoodie to capacity. So, they did!
133. Ianna Almost Fully Loaded
134. Thumbs Up, Fully Loaded & Ready To Shake Hands!!!
135. Shaking Hands With Dr. Upegui
136. Greeting The First Student
137. Ianna, Continuing On Her Journey
138. Making Great Progress
139. Last Stop… Visiting Dr. Ron Shapiro
140. Ianna Remaining Blindfolded For The Education By Entertainment 3Q 2025 Champion Awards Presentation Magnet
141. Photo Album Photo Album Framed Certificate Ianna Discovering That She Is Our Champion!!!
142. Cash & Prizes Ianna Castillo
144. The 115 Beanie Babies Great Programs For Businesses, Schools & Social Events
145. Mind Games For School Counselors Katherine McPhillips
146. Education By Entertainment Programs Are:
147. Multitasking Stand on one foot. Eyes closed. Recite the alphabet backwards.
148. Draw clockwise circles with your foot. Draw a big “6” with your hand.
149. Catch The Falling Dollar Starring Reagan Smith Catch $2.00 as it passes between your index and middle fingers.
150. Attention To Details Starring Katherine McPhillips Lotion Katherine’s activity was to tell us what was on each of her hands.
151. Katherine smelled her left hand and determined that it was lotion. She smelled her right hand and guessed that it might be a marker if it wasn’t lotion. Smelling For Clues
152. Cloth Ring Clue Correct Answer: Ring Solved
153. The Eyewitness Starring James Naughton Describe the bandana. Most people say it contains balloons, but it does not.
154. Find The Present By Asking Yes/No Questions Starring James Naughton
155. Watching James
156. Solved
157. Champion’s Final Exam Katherine’s final exam was to name as many people in the room as she could. She named the speaker and began to recite random names. When she finally got to Katherine I asked her Katherine’s last name. She said “I am a Katherine” finally realizing she did not name herself. The important message here: Don’t Forget Yourself!!!
158. Katherine McPhillips Is A True Champion!!! One of our Champion’s activities is to figure out they are the champion.
159. Our Champion One of Katherine’s activities was to figure out what her ribbon says.
160. The Prizes
161. Tell Your Parents, Leaders & Teachers About Our Programs. They Are Great For: Businesses FUNdraisers Schools Scout Units Social Events Such As Birthdays & Reunions Youth Groups Ask Them To Contact Us For More Information: Ronald G. Shapiro, PhD, LLC DrRonShapiro@gmail.com 401.272.4664 http://www.FunFunFun.Fun
163. Ocean State Networking Toys For Tots Program Photo Album Event Organizer: Dayna Mancini Simmons Activities By: Ronald G. Shapiro, PhD Venue: Pool & Spa By White Pine North Kingston, RI November 18, 2025 Dayna Mancini Simmons
164. Dayna Mancini Simmons With The Marines
165. The South County Crowd
166. Welcome To Ocean State Networking Led By Dayna Mancini Simmons
167. Dayna – You Will Be Carrying The Beanies To The Toy Collection Blindfolded!!!
169. Carol Loading Dayna With The Beanies
172. Carol’s Mission Accomplished: Dayna Is Fully Loaded & Ready For The Walk!!!
173. Dayna Walking Around The Venue Shaking Hands With The Guests And Identifying Them Too!
176. Shaking Hands, Smiling & Having FUN!!! Keep Up The Great Work, Dayna!!!
177. Congratulations, Dayna!!!! The Walk Is Almost Done!!! Time To Play “Beanie Basketball”
179. Notice The Flying Beanie!!!
180. Success!!! 59 Beanies Delivered
183. Thank You Everyone!!! Dayna & Ron
184. Ocean State Networking Toys Program Photo Album Event Organizer: Dayna Mancini Simmons Activities By: Ronald G. Shapiro, PhD Venue: Thirsty Beaver Cranston, RI December 10, 2025 Dayna Mancini Simmons
185. Preliminary Activity Dayna, Google Gemini reviewed your photos from the November Ocean State Networking Event and developed a checklist of six of your leadership characteristics. You have two minutes to tell us what is on the list. We are listening!!! Have FUN!!!
186. Beanie Walk Leah Settipane Prepared Dayna By Loading Her With 75 Beanies
188. Leah Guided Dayna Around The Restaurant Stopping To Shake Hands With Networkers and Restaurant Staff
191. Last Stop Before Playing Beanie Basketball
194. Dayna Met Her Goal of 67 Beanie Baskets!!!
195. Congratulations, Dayna!!!
196. The Beanie Babies and The Collection Basket
197. Thank You Everyone!!! Dayna &Ron