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Crayola, Space4All, Blue Origin’s Club for the Future, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Announce Partnership to Champion the Importance of Creativity in Space

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Opportunity for America’s educators to win a VIP experience at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, plus new educational resources available to engage students

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla., Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Crayola, Space4All, Blue Origin’s nonprofit Club for the Future and Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex revealed a new collaboration to honor exceptional educators, increase awareness about the importance of creativity and innovation in space, and inspire students to pursue a future in space-related careers.

As part of this effort, the organizations created a national initiative – Creativity Launches the Future – for parents and community members to nominate exceptional educators for a chance to win a VIP trip to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The experience is designed to grow educators’ knowledge of space and encourage them to inspire students about the benefits and possibilities of space.

In addition, new educational resources from Crayola and Space4All are now available online throughout the campaign to support and engage educators and students across the country. These hands-on activities help students envision themselves in space-related careers and learn about the amazing innovations that have come out of the space program.

“Creativity is a critical life skill that helps children reach their full potential; no matter what career they choose. This partnership highlights our shared mission to show how creativity drives space exploration and innovation,” said Cheri Sterman, senior director of education, Crayola. “Everyone learns best from hands-on experiences. So, this opportunity for teachers to have an in-person immersion on the Space Coast will expand their knowledge of and confidence in teaching space.”

“Both of my parents were middle-school teachers, and they inspired me to dream big and believe in myself,” said Space4All Ambassador and former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin. “Now, I’m excited for the chance to say thank you to all the outstanding teachers and be part of inspiring them and their students to reach for the stars, because space is for all.”

Twelve educators will be randomly selected from the nominees and announced as part of Crayola’s Creativity Week in early 2025. The winners will tour Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket factory. They will also take home space-themed lessons for their classrooms and may have the opportunity to witness a rocket launch.

Visit Crayola.com/CreativityLaunchestheFuture for more information and to nominate an educator.

Access the Creativity Launches the Future press kit here.

About Crayola:
Crayola LLC, based in Easton, Pa., and a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, is the worldwide leader in children’s creative expression products. Known for the iconic Crayola Crayon first introduced in 1903, the Crayola brand has grown into a portfolio of innovative art tools, crafting activities and creativity toys that offer children innovative new ways to use color to create everything imaginable. Crayola Learning provides free creative learning resources to K-8 educators to prepare students with academic and life skills that hinge on creativity. Visit www.crayola.com/learning for more information or join the community at www.facebook.com/crayolalearning.

Crayola Creativity Week is a free, week-long event that provides parents and educators around the globe with resources to nurture creativity in children. Throughout the week, educators and parents have access to free, engaging, and inspiring content, including hands-on videos from celebrity talent, downloadable handouts to follow and create along, daily prizes, and a livestream virtual school assembly that brings more than 6 million children together globally across six continents and 100 countries. Crayola partners with companies, education associations, artists, actors, authors, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about inspiring, engaging, and supporting children’s education to bring this program to life.

About Space4All:
Space4All is a national awareness campaign that aims to promote the vast benefits and limitless opportunities associated with space exploration and development for students and jobseekers everywhere who may otherwise believe that a future in space and STEM is unattainable for them. The initiative is managed by four nonprofit organizations – Women in Aerospace, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Blue Origin’s nonprofit Club for the Future and Space Foundation – who work closely with government, corporations, community organizations and academic institutions. Space4All hopes to share the excitement of space on a national scale, ignite interest in future careers in STEM and space, and reveal the many ways that space enhances our lives on Earth. For more information, visit Space4All.us.

About Club for the Future:
Founded by Blue Origin, Club for the Future is a non-profit with the mission to inspire and mobilize future generations to pursue careers in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) for the benefit of Earth. The Club and its partners are doing this through the Postcards to Space program, providing space-focused lessons and events, and activating ambassadors around the world.

About Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex:
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex brings to life the epic story of the U.S. space program, offering multiple days of fun, inspiration and educational activities. Included with admission: Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex®, Heroes & Legends, featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame®, presented by Boeing, Space Shuttle Atlantis®, Journey To Mars, space films, the Rocket Garden, Planet Play and the Apollo/Saturn V Center. Get up-close to real flight flown artifacts, meet a veteran NASA astronaut, feel the rumble of a rocket launch and so much more.

#Creativity4All #Space4All #CrayolaCreativityWeek 

Contact: Beth Bartlett, beth.bartlett@dentsu.com

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Innowireless Strengthens Partnership with Autotalks as Strategic Partner for SECTON3 and TEKTON3 Chipsets

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SEONGNAM, South Korea, Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Innowireless, a global leader in wireless communication solutions, is proud to announce its status as the strategic partner for Autotalks’ state-of-the-art SECTON3 and TEKTON3 chipsets, effective this December. This collaboration highlights the shared vision of both companies to advance innovation and accelerate progress in the rapidly expanding Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) market.

As an alpha vendor, Innowireless will provide advanced V2X modules powered by Autotalks’ 3rd-generation chipsets. These cutting-edge chipsets are specifically engineered to meet the growing demands of connected mobility, enabling advanced safety applications (Day 2+) and setting the stage for smarter, safer roads. The close development collaboration with Autotalks, will allow Innowireless to lead the development of next-generation V2X modules for the mass market.

This strategic partnership places Innowireless and Autotalks at the forefront of the V2X ecosystem, delivering transformative solutions that address the evolving needs of automotive, e-bike, and smart road infrastructure manufacturers globally.

“We are honored to be the strategic partner for Autotalks’ SECTON3 and TEKTON3 chipsets,” said Youngsu Kwak, CEO of Innowireless. “This partnership positions us at the forefront of V2X innovation, enabling us to deliver advanced solutions that meet the ever-changing demands of connected and autonomous vehicles.”

Ram Shallom, Autotalks’ VP of Business Development and Marketing APAC, commented, “Innowireless’ expertise in wireless communication and their unwavering commitment to excellence make them the perfect strategic partner. Together, we are poised to redefine the V2X landscape with transformative technology and solutions.”

About Innowireless

Innowireless is a leading provider of wireless communication solutions, offering advanced tools to optimize and validate wireless networks. With a steadfast commitment to innovation and quality, Innowireless empowers manufacturers, network operators, and infrastructure providers with reliable solutions that enhance connectivity and efficiency. The company is also expanding its business into the distribution of semiconductors for automotive applications and the development of V2X communication equipment and testing devices. Furthermore, Innowireless has received an FCC waiver for C-V2X deployment, cementing its role as a key player in the V2X ecosystem.

About Autotalks

Autotalks is a pioneering leader in the V2X chipset market, dedicated to improving road safety and mobility through its automotive-qualified chipsets. Designed to perform in diverse and challenging environments, Autotalks’ technology significantly enhances the coordination of vehicles, self-driving cars, and vulnerable road users.

For more information about Innowireless’ V2X solutions and this partnership, please visit www.innowireless.com or contact marketing@innowireless.com.

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Interos Accelerates AI Innovation with New Product Launches and Strategic Company Momentum Ahead of 2025

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Leading AI-powered supply chain solutions, strengthening partnerships, and leadership on the global stage

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Interos Inc., a global leader in AI-powered supply chain risk intelligence, continues to redefine market leadership with new product launches, strategic partnerships, and participation in global thought leadership forums at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.

AI-First Products Transforming Supply Chain Risk Management

As part of its commitment to revolutionizing risk management, Interos is introducing two new AI-powered solutions: Risk Trends and Benchmarking. Together, they represent the first industry-wide solution that delivers advanced insights tailored to each enterprise’s unique supply chain. Furthermore, both Trends and Benchmarking are critical platform attributes to build out predictive intelligence.

These products address critical unanswered questions that traditional risk assessments leave behind. Organizations can now compare supplier risk histories, uncover patterns and vulnerabilities, gain context to industry benchmarks and focus on the biggest risks. These product enhancements reflect Interos’ vision to remain at the forefront of supply chain innovation.

“This represents a major advancement in applying AI for unparalleled visibility and control,” said Ted Krantz, CEO at Interos. “By addressing the unique complexity of global supply chains with next generation AI, we will revolutionize supply chain risk management with the industry’s first predictive analytics platform.”

Risk Trends empowers organizations to visualize 12 months of historical risk data across key risk factors like Cyber, ESG, and Catastrophic risks. With interactive trendlines, daily data refreshes, and 90-day deltas, businesses can anticipate potential disruptions, identify patterns, and act with confidenceIndustry Benchmarking enables companies to evaluate their performance against industry standards, ensuring that resources aren’t misallocated, saving time, resources, and allows organizations to focus on the biggest risks firstAI-Driven Insights: Both Trendlines and Benchmarking are underpinned by Interos’ robust AI infrastructure, which incorporates financial model upgrades and Industry Categories that enhance predictive analytics capabilities. Interos’ award-winning risk intelligence platform continuously monitors 230+ million global entities across 11+ billion relationships in the industry’s largest knowledge graph

Expanding Strategic Partnerships: SAP Ariba Integration

In its commitment to arming organizations with risk intelligence to navigate macroeconomic volatility, Interos deepens its partnership with SAP Ariba, a leading provider of cloud-based procurement solutions. By integrating Interos’ AI-first risk intelligence into SAP Ariba’s procurement workflows, SAP Ariba customers can now access broader supply chain visibility, real-time data and risk-monitoring, and risk-integrated workflows to make better sourcing, onboarding, purchasing, and supplier management decisions.

“With the integration of Interos’ risk intelligence into SAP Ariba Supplier Risk, customers can get even deeper in the risk of the supplier and supply chain, significantly enhancing the capability to navigate risks in real-time across multiple dimensions. This partnership delivers a strategic advantage for our customers, empowering them to make confident, risk-aware decisions throughout the source-to-pay lifecycle,” said Matthew Montgomery, Senior Director – Product Marketing, SAP Intelligent Spend & Business Network.

Thought Leadership on the World Stage

Interos CEO Ted Krantz has been invited to join the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025 to work with the foremost policymakers, CEOs and innovators. This invitation highlights the need for market leaders to come together in shaping global conversations around AI, innovation, and supply chain resilience.

“We’re honored to join the world’s leading innovators at Davos,” continued Krantz. “This is a powerful opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue about leveraging technology to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. This year, supply chains and AI take center stage, and so do we.”

About Interos

Interos is the AI risk intelligence company – building the most trusted and transparent supply chains in the world. Our pioneering discovery and monitoring intelligence spans the lifecycle of supply chain risk, enabling faster and more informed threat mitigation. As the world’s first, and only, automated supplier intelligence platform, we continuously map and monitor extended supply chains at speed and scale to protect organizations from regulatory fines, unethical labor, cyber-attacks, and other systemic vulnerabilities. Interos serves a variety of commercial, government, and public sector customers around the world including a host of Global Fortune 500 companies and from within the members of the Five Eyes nations. For more information, visit www.interos.ai.

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Zimmer Biomet Announces Quarterly Dividend for Fourth Quarter of 2024

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WARSAW, Ind., Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH), a global medical technology leader, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a quarterly cash dividend to stockholders for the fourth quarter of 2024. The cash dividend of $0.24 per share is payable on or about January 31, 2025 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 30, 2024.

About Zimmer Biomet 

Zimmer Biomet is a global medical technology leader with a comprehensive portfolio designed to maximize mobility and improve health. We seamlessly transform the patient experience through our innovative products and suite of integrated digital and robotic technologies that leverage data, data analytics and artificial intelligence. 

With 90+ years of trusted leadership and proven expertise, Zimmer Biomet is positioned to deliver the highest quality solutions to patients and providers. Our legacy continues to come to life today through our progressive culture of evolution and innovation.

For more information about our product portfolio, our operations in 25+ countries and sales in 100+ countries or about joining our team, visit www.zimmerbiomet.com or follow on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/zimmerbiomet or X / Twitter at www.twitter.com/zimmerbiomet.

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