#Lenovo ties up with #Amazon to launch India’s lightest & slimmest 7-inch Android tablet in India @ Rs.10,999/-

#Lenovo ties up with #Amazon to launch India’s lightest & slimmest 7-inch Android tablet in India pic.twitter.com/OllDe4TZm6
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S5000 Tablet Specifications:
·         CPU: MTK Quad Core, 1.2GHz MT8389 (3G) /8125 (WIFI)

·         Screen: 17.78cm (7) of HD (1280x800) IPS screen | 350 nits, 60% color gamma

·         Size & weight: 7.9mm & 246g/249g

·         Color: Sliver

·         Cameras: 5.0M AF rear | 1.6M front camera

·         Storage: 16GB eMMC storage

·         Memory: 1GB LP DDR2

·         Battery: 8+ hours | Li-Ion polymer, 3450mAh

·         Operating System: Jelly Bean Android 4.2 OS (OTA update to 4.3)

·         Ports: Micro USB (OTG function)/3.5mm audio jack

·         Sensors: Accelerometer (G-sensor), GPS, Brightness (Ambient Light), vibration function, hall sensor

·         Connectivity: 802.11bgn WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0/4.0*

·         Touch: 5 point Multi-touch

·         Audio: Speaker, 3.5mm Audio & mic jack, Microphone
 Feather-light and responsive
Weighing a mere 246 grams, the S5000 is one of the world’s lightest 7 inch tablet that is perfect to showoff while on the move or slip into your handbag when not in use. Its five-finger multi-touch technology helps control apps, browse the web and play games in an effortless manner. The 3D texture design and chrome-painted side trimmings of the Lenovo S5000 are perfect to make you stand out in a crowd.

Loaded features and performance
The Lenovo S5000 will change your gaming and viewing experience with its powerful Quad Core Processing/Wifi+3G (data) connectivity/Android 4, ramping up the overall system speed and applications.

Great visual rendering
With its sleek 17.78cm (7) HD display (1280 x 800 resolution), 350-nits brightness, and a 60% color gamma, you can’t take your eyes off the sharp and vivid images the S5000 offers. The In Plane Switching (IPS) technology allows for 179 degree wide viewing angle, making it ‘the’ device to capture as well as share content.

Stay connected
Lenovo S5000 Tablet ensures you are always connected with features such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G and upto 8 hours battery back-up. This chic tablet also comes with a USB OTG (On The Go) that allows you to charge and read other devices.

This premium tablet in a cool Silver Grey option can be yours at just INR 10,999/-

Lenovo rejigs national consumer distribution structure

Lenovo, one of India’s leading PC players,has announced the restructuring of its national distribution system (Tier 1 distributors) across India. The new structure will align each of the T1 distributors with Lenovo’s four distinct verticals: Lenovo Exclusive Stores (LES), Multi-brand stores, Regional Distributors and Large Format Retail.

Lenovo historically had taken the lead a few years back in having a 1:1 aligned model of billing between RDs and T1 partners. This new structure will take this aligned model to its next level for more focus on each vertical,a press release from Lenovo said.

Shailendra Katyal, Director, Home and Small Business (HSB), Lenovo India, said, “The new T1 structure is a significant step towards developing a best-in-class partner system for Lenovo in India. We are confident that this new distribution structure will further strengthen our engagement with our T2 business partners. Each of these verticals has distinct product and sales patterns and aligning our national distributors to service verticals in a focussed way will ensure better end-to-end serviceability for our channel partners”

Lenovo tablet – A7-30 priced @ Rs.9,979/-

Lenovo has launched A7-30, an affordable multi-media tablet that offers you the complete entertainment experience. Now, watch the colours on your screen come alive while viewing the latest movies owing to the A-730’s bright 17.78 cm (7) display. Listening to your favourite songs will be twice as much fun thanks to its dual front-facing speakers that offer louder, natural, distortion-free sound.
At only INR 9,979, the A7-30 will continue to surprise you with its superior performance. You can check your email, surf the web and download tons of apps at the same time, thanks to the A7-30’s quad-core processor that makes your experience extremely smooth and responsive.
The A7-30 also equips you to stay connected with friends and family at all times with its voice calling and worldwide roaming features. And it won’t die on you when you need it the most, owing to its longer battery life that provides 8 hours of WIFI browsing on a single battery charge.
Speaking on Lenovo’s innovation in tablets, Rohit Midha, Director, Tablet Business Unit, Lenovo India, “While the PC market still represents a huge opportunity, most of the potential for new growth will be in the PC Plus space. Tablets form the backbone of Lenovo’s strategy to win as a PC Plus player. The A7-30 is our attempt to offer a complete package with performance and aesthetics available at an unbelievable price point. This device is a testimony of Lenovo’s track record in reliability.”

Tablet Specifications:
·         Processors: MTK Quad Core, 1.3GHz

·         Memory: 1GB RAM

·         OS: Android 4.2

·         Battery: 3500mAh

·         Storage: Upto 32 GB

·         Screen: 7” (1024x600) TN

·         Camera: 2MP rear FF, 0.3MP front FF

·         Connectivity: Wi-Fi + Voice

·         Audio: 2x speakers + Dolby® Audio


EUP: INR 9,979/- (all inclusive)
Availability: The Lenovo A7-30 tablet is available at all Lenovo Exclusive stores, Multi-brand outlets, Large Format Retail stores and thedostore.com

#Lenovo unveils A7-50, 7” Wideview Android Tablet @15,499/-

Lenovo, one of India’s leading PC players, has launched the all-new A7-50 performance tablet with an in-plane switching (IPS) screen that delivers a wide viewing angle, perfect for sharing content with friends in groups. The quad core processing (1.3 Ghz) enables multitasking, delivers a smoother Android experience and eliminates stutter when playing games or experiencing HD videos.
Equipped with dual cameras, the A7-50 is an awesome device to click photos and selfies owing to the 5 megapixel rear camera and 2 megapixel front camera, which is also great for web chatting.
One can navigate easily through its built in satellite GPS that also interacts with the user offline. There’s also the option of 3G wireless support through a SIM card slot.
Speaking on the twice as powerful A7-50, Rohit Midha, Director, Tablet Business Unit, Lenovo India said, “The market is inundated with options, but the A-750 stands out as it is the first complete 7” tablet that offers double the power and performance, vis-à-vis other devices in the same price bracket. Multitask with this future-ready device that empowers the user to make the most of the tablet experience.”

At a mere 320 grams, this portable device is the perfect travel companion. With its pocket-friendly size at just 9.6mm thin, it’s perfect for reading, listening to music and web-surfing. And can slide easily into any pocket. A soft touch finish provides smoothness of texture and lightness of touch.
The A7-50 also comes preloaded with Premium Apps called SHAREit, SECUREit and SYNCit to enhance the user experience. SHAREit helps in rapid sharing of photos, apps across devices without network charges or a Wi-Fi connection, while SECUREit helps speed up the device and protect against viruses, spam, malware; and SYNCit helps back up & restore the user’s contacts, SMS messages and call logs.


The multi-touch A-750 is available in midnight blue. Other key features include: 1.3 GHz Quad Core Processor, 1GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage, 32 GB external expandable storage via SD card, 5MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, a 3450mAh battery (upto 7 and half hours), full 3G capabilities and built in Voice calling capability.

Tablet Specifications:
·         Processors: MTK Quad Core, 1.3GHz

·         Memory: 1GB RAM

·         OS: Android 4.2 (can be upgraded to KitKat)

·         Weight:  320 g

·         Battery: 3,450mAh Storage: 16GB

·         Screen: 7” HD (1280x800) IPS

·         Camera: 5MP rear FF, 2MP front FF

EUP: INR 15,499 (all inclusive)
Availability: The Lenovo A7-50 wideview tablet is available at all Lenovo Exclusive stores, Multi-brand outlets, Large Format Retail stores and thedostore.com

Lenovo leads the 2-in-1 category in India, with the launch of IdeaPad Flex 10

Lenovo, one of India’s leading PC players, today announced the launch of a new form of PC+ technology - IdeaPad Flex 10. Flex 10 is an ultraportable 10.1” dual-mode mini notebook PC that flips 300° from laptop to stand mode, making it a perfect device for work and entertainment while on the go. Designed for flexibility, the Lenovo_IdeaPad Flex10_Product Imagenew 2-in-1makes it easy for users to interact with their laptops by using simple, intuitive gestures directly on the 10-point multitouch display, optimized for Windows 8.

The new Flex 10 is competitively priced and measures only 17.3mm (0.68") thick and weighs just 1.2kg (2.6 lbs). The acclaimed AccuType keyboard is ergonomically designed to make typing more comfortable and accurate. The device is equipped with Lenovo Energy Manager that protects the long-term durability of the battery and uses advanced energy-saving technology to increase the gap between charges. Thanks to its Veriface Pro, users can now log in without typing on the Flex 10, the face recognition software enables the users to log in with the help of the integrated webcam.

Amit Chatrath, National Product Head, Consumer Products, Lenovo India said, “We are witnessing a growing demand for ultra-portable convertible notebooks especially in an affordable price band,  that makes this category attractive to all the PC buyers. This two-in-one category is indeed one to watch out for and Lenovo is a key player driving this space, both in India and globally.”

Please follow the link below to download the high-res image: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7sn10n

Key features:
·         Up to Intel® Quad Core™ Pentium™ N3510 processor
·         Windows 8 Operating System
·         Display: 10.1" HD (1366 x 768) resolution
·         Up to 500GB storage
·         Integrated graphics
·         Greater accuracy and ease-of-use with the 10-point multitouch display, optimized for Windows 8
·         Lenovo® VeriFace® Pro for fast and secure login
·         Stereo speakers
·         AccuType keyboard with individual rounded keys for comfortable and accurate typing
·         One-piece multitouch touchpad for easy scroll and zoom functions
·         Up to 4 hours battery life for productivity and entertainment on the go
·         Integrated Bluetooth® 4.02 and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi connectivity
·         720p HD webcam to stay connected with friends and family through video chats
·         USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and HDMI-out connectors
·         Dimensions: 273 mm x 188.5 mm x 21 mm
(10.74" x 7.42" x 0.82")

Price: Starting from INR.25990 onwards (inclusive of taxes)

Lenovo unleashes Premium Multi-media Notebook - IdeaPad Z510

Lenovo, one of India’s leading PC players, today announced the launch of the New IdeaPad Z510 - a multi-media notebook that offers a superior combination of premium features and a stylish design. The laptop is equipped with a powerful processor, graphics performance along with an integrated DVD drive and superior audio quality, making it ideal for everyday multimedia experience.

This new notebook from Lenovo weighs only 2.2kg, offering an amazing combination of features and performance. It packs amazing audio quality with JBL speakers & Dolby Home Theatre, with multiple storage options. Optimized to be a complete portable entertainment hub, the device is powered with 4th Gen Intel CoreTM Processor; latest graphics card with up to 6 hours of battery life and a great HD LED display with AntiGlare. The white Backlit keyboard with Accutype not only makes typing easy but also adds a lot of class to the overall design of the Notebook.

Key features:
·         4th generation Intel® Core™ i5 & i7 processors
·          Windows 8.1 operating system
·         Immersive sound through JBL speakers with Dolby® Home Theater® certification
·         Classy Backlit Keyboards with Accutype for the smoothest Typing experience
·         Hybrid 1TB SHDD Storage & NVIDIA Graphics card with integrated 8GB NAND flash
·         Sharper and crisper visuals with Slim 15.6 HD LED display with anti-glare for
·         Multi-touch touchpad for easy scroll and zoom functions
·         OneKey® Recovery making data backup and recovery simple
·         Effective energy manager that protects the long-term durability of the battery and uses advanced energy-saving technology to increase time spent between charges
·         1M HD Camera to stay connected with friends and family through video chats
·         Please follow the link below to download the high-res
·         HDMI-out port to connect to larger screens
·         USB 2.0, USB 3.0 connectors and 2-in-1 card reader
·         Integrated DVD reader/writer drive to stay connected to the latest movies and music
Price: Rs 52954/- onwards (inclusive of taxes)
Availability: The New Lenovo IdeaPad Z510 is available at all Lenovo Exclusive stores, Multi-brand outlets, Large Format Retail stores and thedostore.com

Lenovo wins eight design awards from the 2014 International Forum (iF)

Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced a record eight design awards from the 2014 International Forum (iF), including a Gold Product Design Award for the ThinkVision LT2934z monitor. Other award winners in the product design category include Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop, ThinkPad 8 tablet and YOGA TABLET 8, ThinkCentre E93z all-in-one PC, the Lenovo K900 smartphone and the Horizon table PC. For the first time, Lenovo also won a Communication Design Award for its Aura software interface from the Horizon product. In its 61st year, the iF received more than 4,600 product entries from around the globe, and the top award winners are bestowed with a Gold Award, known as the "Design Oscar.”
This year’s internationally acclaimed panel of forty nine judges commended Lenovo on its pioneering product design and innovation vision. The jury panel said of the ThinkVision LT2934z, “We chose this monitor design particularly because of the successful use of a landscape aspect, creating one dramatic single screen”. The panel also highlighted the device’s Think design language and individuality.
Featuring a 29 inch AH-IPS LED backlit panel offering 33 per cent more viewing area than a traditional 16:9 screen, the ThinkVision LT2934z delivers a true cinematic experience. It also includes a Full HD webcam, dual array microphone and speakers for exceptional video calls and Picture-in-Picture capability enables a continuous multi-tasking workflow
“Design is becoming increasingly important in the PC Plus era as people’s expectations for technology change. Our designs must drive strong emotional appeal to a new audience, not just the IT manager. Quality, reliability and thoughtful design are crucial ingredients for all smart connected devices,” said David Hill, vice president of Think Design and User Experience. “Lenovo will continue the drive to revolutionize our industry with visionary solutions that resonate with the design community and our customers.”
Lenovo has design centers in multiple locations around the globe with over 120 designers focused on the advancement of design and user experience. To date, this diverse team has won over 100 awards for its innovative designs.

Bangalore and Kochi Engineers win Lenovo's DO Network challenge to take away the prize of USD 25,000

The results are out! ‘India Engineered’, a project led by Krishna Raj SR, and his team Jyothi Jennifer Kurian, Manu Mukundan and Abulize MV, have been voted the winner of the first phase of Lenovo’s Do Network. The winners battled it out against 9 participating teams to emerge as India’s most promising technology inventors for their project on empowering Engineering students through online tutorials and sponsorships. The team will receive the grand prize of USD 25,000 from Lenovo.
Speaking on the occasion, Amar Babu, Managing Director, Lenovo India said “We are pleased to announce ‘India Engineered’ as the winner for the first phase of Do Network in India. I also congratulate the other top 9 teams for their stellar performance. I would like to thank all the participants and the youth of the country for the excellent response that Do Network has received”.
Started on December 8, 2011, the 3 month long competition saw over 1200 extraordinary projects going head-to-head. A team of 8 high-profile mentors such as Rajan Anandan (MD Google India), Rajiv Makhni (Managing Editor, Technology at NDTV,  India), Mahesh Murthy (Managing Partner, Pinstorm & Seedfund), Kishore AK(CEO & Co-Founder, Althea system), Narvir C Sud (Retired Scientist G & Lead Auditor, ISO 9000, Aeronautical Development Establishment, Defence Research & Development Organisation), Maxwell Pereira (Ex-Commissioner, Delhi Traffic Police), Prof. Shiva Prasad (Dean- Academics, IIT Bombay) and Shantanu Prakash (Chairman & MD Educomp solutions, Founder and Managing Trustee of the Learning Leadership Foundation (LLF), evaluated, shortlisted and selected the top 10 teams. Post the selection, the mentors helped the teams to fine-tune their projects before they faced the ultimate test of online voting. The winner emerged after more than 1 lakh votes were cast by the Indian public across projects.  “The over-whelming response that Do Network received reinforces the fact that each of us nurtures an idea of a better India and Lenovo has endeavoured to create this platform to bring those ideas to life. Do Network is an initiative that provides an opportunity to enable the youth to be the agents of change through the use of technology”, Amar Babu added.
“It has been a long road for these very passionate Doers and it’s been fantastic to see such a worthy project evolve and emerge”, said Rajan Anandan, MD, Google India. “The Do Network has provided us with the rare opportunity to support, guide and nurture some really innovative and brilliant Indians and I am sure it will continue to inspire many more great projects in future.”
‘India Engineered’ aims to set up a mobile workshop, which will conduct online sessions and focus on imparting practical education to engineering students by established Engineers.
“The past three months have been intense but hugely rewarding”, said Krishna Raj SR, Project Lead, India Engineered. “We were excited to have a platform like The Do Network to share our ideas, highly respected mentors and resources to develop them, and we now look forward to implementing the idea in India. It has been a privilege to be part of such a meaningful campaign and to be selected the winner out of so many other deserving projects!”

The Do Network comprises a series of four 90-day contest cycles, with different themes and thematic challenges introduced for each cycle. The second cycle of the competition is due to start later in the year.

The Do Network is an online platform designed to inspire people to share their ideas with a larger community of like-minded Doers, subsequently forming project teams and developing these ideas into tangible actions to improve the community. Resources and tools were provided to the project teams, including the guidance of respected and influential mentors. A total of 1, 07,221 votes were cast before ‘India Engineered’ emerged as the winner in India.    
For more information about the Do Network, including the official rules, please visit http://donetwork.lenovo.com.
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Bangalore Student ‘Sachin Kukke’ Among Six Winners of Global YouTube Space Lab Science Competition

YouTube, Lenovo, and Space Adventures today announced the six regional winners of YouTube Space Lab (youtube.com/spacelab), the global science competition that challenged 14-18 year-olds to design a science experiment that can be performed in space.  In cooperation with space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Space Lab will provide two global winners the chance to have their experiment conducted and live streamed to the world using a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop from the International Space Station on YouTube.

Out of the 6 regional winners, one winner in the 17-18 year old category is Bangalore’s 18 year old Sachin Kukke from BMS College of Engineering. His winning experiment was based on Ferrofluid and aims to measure the thermal conductivity of ferrofluids in microgravity.

“We’re very excited to announce ‘Sachin Kukke’ as the regional winner from India. YouTube Spacelab in association with Lenovo saw participation from over 80 countries with the highest (40 percent) entries coming from India. We want to thank and congratulate all the winners, including the 9 Indian winners whose experiments were shortlisted in the top 60. Through initiatives like these, we want students to get inspired and explore the wonders of science and technology.” said, Nikhil Rungta, Country Marketing Head, Google India.



Sachin Kukke the Indian winner from APAC region, said, “This is like a dream come true, I had never ever imagined that I would get to experience zero gravity in my life. I had hopes of making it to the final six but I was not so sure. I am very excited to win this and I am really looking forward to meeting the other finalists and experiencing the Zero gravity flight.”



The six regional winners, who hail from Egypt, India, New Zealand, Spain, and the U.S., are:

14 - 16 year olds:

         Patrick Zeng & Derek Chan, New Zealand (Asia Pacific region)

         Laura Calvo & María Vilas, Spain (Europe, Middle East and Africa region)

         Dorothy Chen & Sara Ma, U.S. (The Americas region)



17 - 18 year olds:

         Sachin Kukke, Bangalore, India (Asia Pacific region)

         Amr Mohamed, Egypt (Europe, Middle East and Africa region)

         Emerald Bresnahan, U.S. (The Americas region)



The six regional winning teams will visit Washington DC in March for a series of activities and events to honor their achievements, including a ZERO-G Flight, a Lenovo IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook™, a special tour and dinner at the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum at Dulles, and an awards ceremony at the Newseum on March 22. The two global winners (one team from each of the two age groups) will be announced at the awards ceremony on March 22, and will later this year have their experiments performed 250 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and live streamed on YouTube as part of a global event celebrating science and space.

In addition, the two global winners will get to choose a unique space experience:  a trip to Japan to watch their experiment blast off in a rocket bound for the ISS, or once they are 18-years old, a one-of-a-kind astronaut training experience in Star City, Russia, the training center for Russian cosmonauts.


"This grand project demonstrates that math and science matter,” said Zahaan Bharmal, Google’s Head of Marketing Operations, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and the man behind the idea of Space Lab.  “These six winners represent the next generation of scientists and even space explorers. Their families, schools, local communities and countries should be very proud.”

"An India finalist in the Global YouTube Spacelab science competition indicates the zest with which Indians foster their passion for science" says Shailendra Katyal, Director, Marketing, Lenovo India. "We believe competitions like our partnership with YouTube Space Lab provides students with an opportunity to consider science as a career aspiration. We congratulate all the 6 finalists and wish them luck, may the best one win."

In October 2011, YouTube invited budding scientists in two age categories, 14-16 years old and 17-18 years old, either alone or in groups of up to three, to submit a YouTube video describing their experiment to YouTube.com/SpaceLab.  The Space Lab channel itself, which serves as a launch pad for discovering the best space and science videos on YouTube, has received more than 50 million combined video views worldwide throughout the course of the competition.



Over 150,000 YouTube users worldwide helped determine the six regional winners by voting for their favorite experiment.  The YouTube community casted votes alongside our prestigious panel of judges, including NASA’s Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s Associate Administrator of Education and former Astronaut Leland Melvin, ESA Astronaut Frank De Winne, JAXA Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and Cirque du Soleil’s founder Guy Laliberté.



For more information, please visit youtube.com/spacelab.



About YouTube

YouTube is the world’s largest online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch, and share original videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original-content creators and advertisers large and small. YouTube, LLC, is based in San Bruno, California, and is a subsidiary of Google Inc.

About Space Adventures

Space Adventures, the company that organized the flights for the world's first private space explorers, is headquartered in Vienna, Va., with an office in Moscow. It offers a variety of programs such as the availability today for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and around the moon, Zero-Gravity flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecraft. The company's advisory board includes Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, Shuttle astronauts Sam Durrance, Tom Jones, Byron Lichtenberg, Norm Thagard, Kathy Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Charles Walker, and Skylab/Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott.  For more information, please visit www.spaceadventures.com.

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YouTube Space Lab Announces 60 Finalists in Competition to Send Students’ Experiments into Space

YouTube, Lenovo, and Space Adventures in cooperation with space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), today announced the sixty finalists of YouTube Space Lab (youtube.com/spacelab), the global science competition that challenges 14-18 year-olds to design a science experiment that can be performed in space.  YouTube Space Lab received thousands of  video submissions from more than 80 countries, a remarkable number given the unique challenge of designing an experiment that could actually be carried out in space - something that has traditionally been the mission of qualified astronauts and scientists.  Entrants not only described their science experiment ideas via video, but demonstrated and animated the procedures they were submitting.

The U.S. led with 10 finalists, followed by India with nine.  Rounding out the top five countries in terms of total submissions are Poland, Canada, and Spain.  U.S. finalists hail from states including California, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Vermont.  A complete list of finalists is below.

Starting today through January 24, the YouTube community will be invited to judge these entries alongside a prestigious panel of judges, including renowned scientist, Professor Stephen Hawking, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s Associate Administrator of Education and former Astronaut Leland Melvin, ESA Astronaut Frank De Winne, JAXA Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and Cirque du Soleil’s founder Guy Laliberté, to determine the winners.  YouTube users and the judging panel will determine 6 regional winners (2 teams from each of the 3 regions) who will travel to Washington, DC, where the global winners (2 teams from each age group) will be announced in March.

"We’re thrilled with the response to YouTube Space Lab,” said Zahaan Bharmal, Google’s Head of Marketing Operations, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and the man behind the idea for Space Lab.  “They rose to the challenge - demonstrating great imagination, creativity and passion with their ideas.  Our mission was to inspire the next generation and the response shows, we've done just that. Today's Space Lab entrants are tomorrow's space explorers.”

High Interest Across the World

Space Lab invited budding scientists in two age categories, 14-16 years old and 17-18 years old, either alone or in groups of up to three, to submit a YouTube video describing their experiment to YouTube.com/SpaceLab.  The Space Lab channel itself, which serves as a launch pad for discovering the best space and science videos on YouTube, has received more than 40 million combined video views worldwide.

The majority of entries, approximately forty percent, came from India, followed by the U.S. with fifteen percent.  The remaining top ten countries in terms of submissions include the U.K., Russia, Israel, Canada, Spain, Italy, Poland and Japan.  Seventy-eight percent of the entries came  from the 14-16 year old teams with twenty-two percent from the 17–18 year old teams.  Nearly half of the youth entered the competition on their own, while teams of two and three students comprised slightly more than 50 percent.

“Space Lab brings together the brightest young minds in the world today – and we’re impressed with all of the  thought-provoking entries,” said Michael Schmedlen, worldwide director of education, Lenovo. “From a global education standpoint, we’re seeing a strong correlation between the entries received and the results from our Global Student Science and Technology Outlook survey, which reveals students in emerging countries - India, Mexico and Russia – have  a greater interest in and prioritize  science-related careers over students in other developed countries.”

Six regional winners will be announced in February and will gather in Washington, D.C., in March to experience a ZERO-G flight and receive a Lenovo IdeaPad laptop.  From them, two global winners, one from each age group, will be announced and later have their experiments performed 250 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and live streamed on YouTube from a ThinkPad laptop as part of a global event celebrating science and space.  Additionally, the global winners will get to choose a unique space experience as a prize:  a trip to Japan to watch their experiment blast off in a rocket bound for the ISS, or once they are 18 years old, a one-of-a-kind astronaut training experience in Star City, Russia, the training center for Russian cosmonauts.

YouTube Space Lab Finalists

14 - 16 year olds

The Americas
Katie Gwozdecky - Canada
Michael De Lazzari, Erik Friedman, and Jenny Zhang - Canada


Valentina Mazzanti and Sebastian Escobar - Columbia


Mark Liang - USA (San Marino, California)
Natalie Ng - USA (Cupertino, California)
Luis Tapia and Ben Miller - USA (Castro Valley, California)
Pranav Singh - USA (Irvine, California)
Sara Ma and Dorothy Chen - USA (Troy, Michigan)
Cheyenne Hua, Erica Lin, and Karina Xie  - USA (New York City, NY)


Europe, Middle-East and Africa


Tobias Antensteiner - Austria
Victoria Tarisai - Austria


Simon Kopf - Germany


Ariel Berko and Yoav Levi - Israel


Jaime Costa - Morocco


Maciej Giza - Poland
Michał Styk, Maria Leniarska, and Jakub Jabłoński - Poland
MrMooblo 3 - Poland
Rafał Wesołowski, Marcin Ruchniewicz, and Krzysztof Kallas - Poland


Laura Calvo and María Vilas - Spain
Luis Alvarez Ayuso and Marina Lopez Gonzalez - Spain


Reuben Thomas-Davis - UK
Harry Green and Jack Goodwill - UK


Asia-Pacific


Thomas Gambuti, Francesca Mcgrath, and Ruby Wright - Australia
Wyatt McCoach and Forrest Gerner - Australia


Abhishek Shastry and Animesh Shastry - India
Megha Sharma and Karan Sapolia Sharma - India
Nitya Raju - India


Patrick Zeng and Derek Chan - New Zealand


Ping-Chun Lin & Wei-Ting Hsiao - Taiwan

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17 - 18 year olds

The Americas

Habeeb Ahmed and Annas Khan - Canada
Jesse Bettencourt, Alex Kasper, and Mackenzie Richardson - Canada


José Arce Gamboa and Brandon Solórzano - Costa Rica


Claudio Nahmad - Mexico
Mariana Infante - Mexico


Brian Barr, Shawn Albert, and Aditya Ragunathan - USA (Dacula/Snellville/Duluth, GA)
Emerald Bresnahan - USA (Plainville, Massachusetts)
Emily O'Brien, Jillian Stoneburg, and Art Sherman - USA (Barberton/Copley/Akron, Ohio)
Grady Ward, Colin Watts, and Charlie Wu - USA (Essex Junction, Vermont)


Europe, Middle-East and Africa


Amr Mohamed - Egypt


François Tirvaudey - France


Michael Judt - Germany (lives in UK)


Adam Debreceni - Hungary
Peter Egri and Gábor Galgóczi - Hungary


Bartosz Krzowski - Poland
Patrik Kopcinski - Poland


João Pereira and Vasco Ferreira - Portugal


Miguel Ferreira, Guilherme Aresta, and Daniel Carvalho - Portugal


Miguel Moral Sola and Rafael Ferrer Fernandez - Spain
Nicolás Marí Hernández, Olivier van Donselaar, and Pere Balaguer Gimeno - Spain


Asia-Pacific


Luke Ditria and Johnny Udall - Australia


Nasir Uddin and AKM Shoaibul Islam - Bangladesh


Ali Ashraf Mohd Rozaiddin, Muhammad Irsyad Aripin, and Mohd Aizat Mohd Ezmir - Malaysia


Bhoomika Agarwal and Shruthi C - India
Mohit Singhala - India
Nesar M.N. - India
Kavin Sundar Nath - India
Sachin Kukke - India
Shri Shankari - India


Anna Yang and Cindy Chen - Taiwan
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About YouTube
YouTube is the world’s largest online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch, and share original videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original-content creators and advertisers large and small. YouTube, LLC, is based in San Bruno, California, and is a subsidiary of Google Inc.

About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a $US21 billion personal technology company serving customers in more than 160 countries, and the world’s second-largest PC vendor. Dedicated to building exceptionally engineered PCs and mobile internet devices, Lenovo’s business is built on product innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and strong strategic execution.  Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services. Its product lines include legendary Think-branded commercial PCs and Idea-branded consumer PCs, as well as servers, workstations, and a family of mobile Internet devices, including tablets and smart phones. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina.  For more information see www.lenovo.com.

About Space Adventures
Space Adventures, the company that organized the flights for the world's first private space explorers, is headquartered in Vienna, Va., with an office in Moscow. It offers a variety of programs such as the availability today for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and around the moon, Zero-Gravity flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecraft. The company's advisory board includes Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, Shuttle astronauts Sam Durrance, Tom Jones, Byron Lichtenberg, Norm Thagard, Kathy Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Charles Walker, and Skylab/Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott.  For more information, please visit www.spaceadventures.com.

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