Space.com Invites Submissions for Best of Toy Fair 2015 Awards

Crayola's Shadow Fx Color Projector
Crayola's Shadow Fx Color Projector won the "Cosmic Space" Space Age Award at the 2014 Toy Fair. Space.com is now inviting submissions for the 2015 Space Age Awards at Toy Fair. (Image credit: Space.com/Miriam Kramer)

NEW YORK — Space.com, the premier destination for innovation, technology, entertainment, astronomy and space news, is now accepting submissions for the Space.com Space Age Awards at Toy Fair 2015 in February.

Space.com's team of editors and writers will be covering the most innovative new products at Toy Fair 2015 in New York City (Feb. 14-17) and selecting the recipients of its Space Age Awards. Winners will be selected from a variety of categories, including:

  • Best High-Tech Toy
  • Sci-Fi on Earth
  • Amazing Robots
  • Cosmic Space
  • Flying Drones
  • Little Scientists
  • Retro Future
  • Do-it-Yourself Science

Submissions are due by 5 p.m. EST, Friday, Feb. 13. The winners will be announced Feb. 17 during Toy Fair. [Best of Toy Fair 2014: Space.com's Space Age Awards Winners]

To submit an entry for consideration, please e-mail Space.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik <tmalik@space.com> with the following information:

  • Product name
  • Price
  • When the product will be released (along with any NDA dates/times)
  • Brief product description (100 words)
  • Photos (attached or links to view them)

Only products that are announced or first shown at the Toy Fair will be considered. Embargoes on products will be honored.

If you have any questions, please contact Tariq directly at 212-703-5859 or tmalik@space.com.

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Space.com is the premier source of space exploration, innovation and astronomy news, chronicling (and celebrating) humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier. Originally founded in 1999, Space.com is, and always has been, the passion of writers and editors who are space fans and also trained journalists. Our current news team consists of Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik; Editor Hanneke Weitering, Senior Space Writer Mike Wall; Senior Writer Meghan Bartels; Senior Writer Chelsea Gohd, Senior Writer Tereza Pultarova and Staff Writer Alexander Cox, focusing on e-commerce. Senior Producer Steve Spaleta oversees our space videos, with Diana Whitcroft as our Social Media Editor.