“Realizing Dreams”, Inspiring Young Hearts to Innovate

Beijing, China -- July 8, 2013 – Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) and Motorola Solutions Foundation today announced its collaboration with Junior Achievement (JA), the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to educating students in work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. The collaboration around “Realizing Dreams: The Enterprise Mobility Innovation Competition” (“Competition”), has successfully concluded in Beijing.

The Competition involved 139 student contestants from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Tianjin University. To inspire a passion and realize the potential for innovation among these prestigious university students, the Competition served as a platform catalyzes innovative ideas into tangible business solutions. As one of many public welfare projects demonstrating the company’s continued endeavors to foster innovation among local talent, the Competition is supported by a financial grant from Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions. And the Motorola Solutions Foundations has been making contribution to Junior Achievement in the past 7 years as a continued effort toward developing Chinese local talents and fostering innovation.

Key Facts

• This year’s Competition took place between March and July 2013. From its initial heats down to the final rounds, a winning team was finally selected out of a total of 44 groups.

• The Competition also leveraged two most advanced, award-winning enterprise-class mobile devices from Motorola Solutions: the ET1 Enterprise Tablet and the MC40 Handheld Mobile Computer. Participants were invited to choose from either device based on their industrial requirements and respective software development features. Industries associated with the Competition included healthcare, retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics.

• The Competition was held in two rounds. During the initial heats, contestants submitted their programme designs which were evaluated by Motorola Solutions experts based on their originality, potential for commercialization, associated benefits to industries and society at large, as well as their technical advantages. In the next round, each team then visited Motorola Solutions to study for a month or two. Here, they were each assigned to a employee volunteer tutor to complete the software programming. In the final round, contestants’ final works were revealed appraised industry experts from Motorola Solutions and its partners.

• The winning team and their teachers will be invited to visit the Motorola Solutions Asia-Pacific Headquarters in Singapore, a trip which is sponsored by Motorola Solutions. In addition, they will be offered an exchange program with the students from the “Innovative Product Design” project co-organized by Singapore’s Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Motorola Solutions, to share the competition experience.

• The Competition was warmly received by the Competition participants. Relating to their daily experiences as consumers and with various service providers, the software designed by the participants included: a system for express deliverymen whose products, when scanned, would automatically select an optimal delivery route. Another solution, aimed at shopping malls, made it convenient for consumers to quickly find the location and information of their desired products. There is also a solution which when integrated with the business features of Motorola Solutions’ emergency response communications system , is designed to increase the work efficiency of doctors, support their requests for supplies, as well as enhance the capability of data statistics at the scene of disaster relief.

• During this year’s Competition, the university students revealed their most creative and inspired work with regard to enterprise-class mobile applications, and further enrich these products and develop them into workable solutions based Motorola Solutions’ products. With the support of volunteers provided by both the company and its partners, student participants can deepen their understanding of the demands of industry’s consumers. It is also hoped that the success of this Competition will inspire new, innovative career opportunities for these young participants.

SUPPORTING QUOTES
Gao Yang, executive director, JA China
“As a result of our collaboration with Motorola Solutions, we can now offer China’s youth a platform to voice their full creative potential and ability. We believe that an opportunity such as this competition is exceptionally rare. China’s technologies and products are constantly developing, and youths with dreams and creativity are now needed more and more. Thanks to Motorola Solutions, we believe that many students will be inspired to link their knowledge with innovative ideas and completely transform it into the productivity of our society, thus unlocking their full potential to become the leaders of tomorrow.”

Matt Blakely, director of the Motorola Solutions Foundation
“Motorola Solutions is dedicated to helping people be their best in the moments that matter and inspiring the next generation of innovators. Through the Motorola Solutions Foundation, we have the distinct privilege of fulfilling this purpose by supporting inspiring and worthwhile organizations like Junior Achievement. We are proud to see the great ideas these students have developed.”

Michael Jiang, chairman and president, Motorola Solutions (China) Co., Ltd.
“As a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, Motorola Solutions always pays great attention to fostering and developing home-grown talent, and launched long-term talent fostering programmes in many domestic colleges. This year we collaborated with JA to produce the Realising Dreams Competition, which gave us the opportunity to meet young talents actively involved in enterprise mobility technologies. It also inspired us to continue our efforts in guiding these youngsters and, in addition to raising commercial value, bring about greater benefits for society on the whole.”

Results of Final Round

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About JA (Junior Achievement)
Junior Achievement is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to educating students about work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. JA China partners with the business and education sectors to deliver our innovative business and economics programs in schools ranging from the elementary through university level. Since its founding in 1993, JA China has worked with 3,733,142 students and 48,638 volunteers. For more information, please visit http://www.jachina.org/.

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