High-Level Project Summary
First of all, our main objective was to inform people about asteroid exploration especially for the Trojans that could lead us to an understanding of the history of our Solar system. So we collaborated, as a team, with our combined set of skills and created two models of the Solar system: one digital, and another manual.Furthermore, we uploaded an explainer video using fun and humor along with storytelling to inform people about NASA's Lucy mission. Our hope is to submerge fun in the learning process so that we can inspire more people and get them to get a sense of the importance of such a scientific breakthrough to humanity as for unraveling our history!
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Detailed Project Description
Our project targets to stimulate a sense of curiosity in the audience by letting a sense of humor in and putting a smile on people's faces because happy and fun moments are the moments we remember the most and that leave a great impact on us.
We hope to integrate a not so widespread way of learning in the familiarity of everyday life, where we get to convince non-scientists that they could still have great access and understanding to science and learning in general. And for that, we might want to get a bit far from the formality of science and make it accessible to everybody!
Our tools are actually some handmade craft that with some effective filming and lighting, could give a beautiful visual experience; and some basic software skills that we gained by doing our own research and watching some explainer videos to make some animation 2D and 3D modeling. And an imagination to create a scenario to illustrate in a funny way the topic we are working on!
Space Agency Data
We have used NASA's open-source data to learn about the trajectory of the Lucy spacecraft and to get all the details about the Lagrange points and the stable orbits.
Furthermore, we have read the Nice model and pictured how the theory predicts the evolution of the Solar system.
Moreover, we have read the Asteroid Taxonomy provided by NASA to get an idea of the classification of asteroids.
And finally, we have searched the mission targets that are seven Trojan asteroids and one main-belt asteroid.
Hackathon Journey
We, as Lebanese youth, are so proud of being part of this global event for the first time, and we hope that we have made our country proud.
It was a great experience because being college students that may lack a lot of skills, we collaborated and did our best to come with some work that would make us proud, so basically, we participated in the NASA Space Apps to get more than giving, and most importantly, to learn! We have chosen this specific challenge because it aligned with our combined set of skills and more importantly we thought that is the challenge we would enjoy working on the most.
We were working and collaborating all the time to come up with ideas and/or adjust them, and despite all the setbacks caused by the exceptional situation our country is facing, we still managed to make it work and did not give up until the last moment.
We would like to thank NASA for this great opportunity it has given us to be part of this amazing event, and of course, we thank our local lead and his team for their hard work and dedication!
References
- www.NASA.gov
- www.newatlas.com
- www.spaceref.com
- www.cnet.com
- www.sciencetimes.com
Tags
https://www.mediafire.com/view/4yl85z6usnq4ca5/LOGO.jpeg/file and https://www.mediafire.com/view/qeu4up1uddv5pj7/WhatsApp_Image_2021-10-02_at_10.58.40_AM.jpeg/file
Global Judging
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