High-Level Project Summary
Our final product captures the diversity of Lucy through an enjoyable and creative style. As a creative twist on the regular model, we wanted to incorporate food and space in a unique design. We designed a cake to serve as a model of the Lucy mission. The project could provide instructors an interactive and tasty way to introduce our solar system and NASA missions into their curriculum. Thus, teaching educational concepts to young learners and getting them interested in space.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Our project has the potential to inspire a variety of different age groups through a medium that everyone can understand. To engage younger students in learning complicated information, we strove to present it in a way that would excite and invoke questions while also meeting the basic understanding of young learners. Children can be captivated by the edible art aspect of the project which will interest them in learning about a NASA mission, asteroids, and planets. A fully edible display of the Lucy Mission is something that could be re-created in classrooms as a fun activity while also doubling as an educational teaching tool. Our project goal was simple: encourage others to explore and imagine space through a unique perspective.
Space Agency Data
The NASA time-elapsed animation of the inner planet and the two Trojan forms during the Lucy mission inspired us in our creative art endeavors.
Hackathon Journey
Our Space Apps experience has been a memorable time. We have learned many things about the Lucy Mission and how this spacecraft is taking a record-breaking journey. It could give us a lot of intel on the human race. We also discovered some interesting details about asteroids and asteroid mining that was useful in the project. Overall, we are walking away with a fun experience and more knowledge about space than we originally had.
References
Asteroid Mining Could Solve Rare Metal Shortage. Manufacturing.net. (2021). Retrieved 3 October 2021, from https://www.manufacturing.net/technology/blog/21113380/asteroid-mining-could-solve-rare-metal-shortage.
Barnett, A. (2021). In Depth | Lucy – NASA Solar System Exploration. NASA Solar System Exploration. Retrieved 3 October 2021, from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/lucy/in-depth/.
In Depth | Asteroids – NASA Solar System Exploration. NASA Solar System Exploration. (2021). Retrieved 3 October 2021, from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/in-depth/.
Kretke, K. (2021). NASA Lucy Mission’s Message to the Future. NASA. Retrieved 3 October 2021, from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-lucy-mission-s-message-to-the-future.
Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids. NASA. (2021). Retrieved 3 October 2021, from https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index.
Images:
Lucy Spacecraft with Asteroid:
Reference model for cake:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index
Recipes:
Sugar Cookies:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9870/easy-sugar-cookies/
Vanilla Cake:
https://www.recipetineats.com/my-very-best-vanilla-cake/
Tags
#TrojanAsteroids, #creativity, #space, #baking, #LucyMission, #Art