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About Slyde

The Product

Slyde the Playground Hound promotes fun and safety, allowing children to feel safe while having fun, especially while they are doing what they are hard-wired to do: take risks.

The Essence 

To engage, inspire, and influence the health and safety of children everywhere.

For children to successfully navigate life’s challenges at school, at home, and at play, they need positive role models that emulate healthy living and communicate safe behaviors.

Often children emulate famous athletes, actors, or popular musicians as prescribed by current pop culture trends and the media. However, such examples may fall short as positive role models in conveying messages of excellence, dependability, and respect that parents, educators, and childcare givers want for their children.

Slyde the Playground Hound is a positive role model whose influence is enduring and ageless. Slyde teaches children to be respectful of their everyday environment and to be tolerant and compassionate with their peers. Slyde empowers children to be safety conscious and respond to potential dangers in healthy ways.

To engage, inspire, and influence the health and safety of children: this is the essence of Slyde the Playground Hound.

Our Team

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First Name: 
Jordyn
Last Name: 
Goebel
Bio: 

Currently I am a stay at home mom working for Slyde the Playground Hound educating children on the importance of playground safety. I also worked in childcare for the last seven years and enjoyed every minute of it. The best part of being a child is playing and learning so it is important that we make sure our children know how to make safe choices.  

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Company: 
Workman Nydegger
First Name: 
Dana
Last Name: 
Tangren
Bio: 

Dana Tangren is a partner of Workman Nydegger, a Salt Lake City law firm specializing in intellectual property.  Dana oversees the registration, licensing and enforcement of the Slyde trademark and copyright portfolio.

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Company: 
Playground Hound LLC
First Name: 
Slyde
Last Name: 
the Playground Hound
Bio: 

Slyde the Playground Hound made his debut as a children’s playground safety awareness icon in the year 2000. Since then, over 100,000 children have learned from Slyde’s “cool and careful” ways. Children love Slyde and grown-ups respect him. From storybooks and a classroom curriculum to live appearances and social media, Slyde’s influence runs the gamut: elementary schools, early-childhood education programs, family publications, and, of course, directly with children at www.slyde.com.

Where there is safe fun, Slyde is around. You can catch him with the children on the playground.

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Company: 
Playground Professionals
First Name: 
Curtis
Last Name: 
Stoddard
Bio: 

Curtis Stoddard has over 25 years experience in the playground industry. Curtis has created, managed, and owned a variety of playground-related businesses of which his current industry presence is as President of Playground Professionals, LLC. www.playgroundprofessional.com

Curtis created Slyde the Playground Hound in 2000 and continues to direct the creative efforts behind the company’s mission to market Slyde’s safety messages to all children by completion of the 3rd grade, around the age of 9.

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Company: 
Playground Professionals, LLC
First Name: 
Rita
Last Name: 
Watts
Bio: 

Rita Watts combines her elementary education background and her writing experience with Playground Professionals, LLC to help Slyde get his playground safety message out to children and adults alike. Rita enjoys working with kids, or more correctly put, playing with kids. Rita is a strong advocate of the value of play.

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Company: 
Lucky Dog Recreation
First Name: 
Nicole
Last Name: 
Stoddard
Bio: 

Nicole Stoddard, President of Playground Hound, LLC and owner of the intellectual property Slyde®, is a Certified Playground Safety Inspector (CPSI).  She earned her degree in Parks & Recreation Management from the University of Utah while raising a family and serving as President of her first business venture in the playground industry, Sof'Fall, Inc. 

When Nicole is not pursuing her current passion to make Slyde the next “big” child icon, she serves as VP of Sales and Marketing for Picture Perfect Playgrounds,www.pictureperfectplaygrounds.com, a family-owned and operated playground construction company that builds children's playgrounds in the Intermountain West and Pacific Northwest.

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Company: 
Word Up Designs
First Name: 
Jake
Last Name: 
Amen
Bio: 

Jake Amen joined the Slyde team in 2001 shortly after graduating college. In 2005 Jake formed his own business, Word Up Designs, where he has honed his skills as a web designer. Slyde is one of his favorite projects to date.

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