Who says education should be only for those who can afford it? Education should be made available to anyone in the world and that was just what the team from the Nobelity Project did along with support from AMD (Advanced Micro Devices).
The Nobelity Project, an education and action nonprofit organization, was founded by Turk and Christy Pipkin in 2005 to make movies that make a difference. They collaborate with Nobel Laureates and other inspiring leaders to create films that motivate and bring people awareness, moving them to action. The Nobelity Project started by constructing a small rain water collection system and a few OLPC’s (One Laptop Per Child) at Mahiga Hope High School and Primary in Kenya, Africa. This snowballed into building more classrooms, a new kitchen and dining hall, a library and science and computer labs with help and sponsorship from donors as well as companies such as Nike and AMD.
In May 2012, AMD sponsored about 15 AMD-powered Lenovo ThinkCentre M77 PCs to Mahiga Hope Secondary School for their computer lab.
Lenovo is proud to be chosen by AMD and we’re happy to know that our ThinkCentre M77 is giving the children in Mahiga Hope Secondary School a chance to Do. And where there is an opportunity to Do, there is Hope.
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Did you know what the future held for you when you were 17 or 18 years old? Or were you like me: worried about exams, not knowing which University to apply to or if the University you applied to would even accept you. Well for these three youths from USA, Egypt and India--regional finalists in the YouTube Space Lab competition powered by Lenovo--the questions they had on their minds go way beyond that.
From the USA we have 17-year-old Emerald Bresnahan (above), a black belt Tae Kwan Do expert who dreams of becoming an astrophysicist or, rather, a theoretical cosmologist. As there have been studies showing how the formation of snowflakes is similar to galaxies, her experiment proposes testing how snowflakes form in space in order to understand better the Universe. Like she said, “I would just love to let my mind go free, and to make discoveries without bounds.” I wonder what discoveries she can make in space when given the chance?
Amr Mohamed, who is 18 years old and from Alexandria, Egypt, experienced the turmoil during Egypt’s revolution in January 2011. The mixture of hope and fear that the experience provoked in him and his natural fascination with science has driven him to “work and put effort to develop my country and to see a change in my life.” The...
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I’ve never been good at Science in School, not Chemistry, not Biology, let’s not even mention Physics. But I’ve just been totally blown away by the three teams of Space Lab regional winners aged 14 – 16 years! Their science experiment proposals are way beyond what I can imagine.
First we have Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma from the United States of America, both 16 years old, whose experiment is titled, “Could Alien Superbugs Cure Disease on Earth?”. As Dorothy said, “We’re just one small planet, there’s so much more left to explore”. And explore they definitely did! Studies showed how bacteria grown in space returned more infectious than their counterparts on Earth thus they proposed sending bacteria to the space station but this time to test ways to stop its growth. If that worked, further studies could help create better ways to combat germs on Earth. How awesome is that?
From a small village in Spain, we have Laura Calvo and María Vilas, both 15 years old, and their experiment is, “Does the Future of Computing Rest in a Drop of Liquid?”. They wished to understand more about fluid physics research on whether microgravity affected the interaction of...
