High-Level Project Summary
Our project is presantation and video materials about building low cost High Altitude Balloons. In this project we show the easiest and more common process of building HAB for students .It consists of brief information about what is HAB, for what it is needed, materials that demanded for building HAB , the process of building HAB, launching and the last tracking.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
The project requires developing a lesson-plan and a bill of materials(BOM)to teach students how to build a low-cost High Altitude Balloon(HAB)capable of reaching near space.The process that team developed is a lesson schedule, due to the fact that it contains the oretical and technical themes,to proceed gradually by addressing the challenges and advance students skills.
High Altitude Balloons ( HAB) are widely used by NASA and other scientific organizations each year for meteorology, atmospheric and climate research, collection of imagery from near space, amateur radio applications.
The importance of this project we did with our team is that there is almost no detailed information on internet about how to make Low cost High Altitude Balloons ( HAB) . Thusly we decided to research and gather the information into one video which helps the students to get to know better and deeper about HAB.
This project is an instructional video which starts by explaining what is HAB and why we need them . As it proceeds it shows the students how to step by step create a payload and tie it to parachute , then finally launch it.
The video which we are creating is going to be available here at https://2021.spaceappschallenge.org .
By creating this video we hope to give a pinch of knowledge to young learners about High Altitude Balloons.
For the development of this project we used our phone to record the videos and several websites to gain information about HAB. For editing our video we used an application of InShot.
Space Agency Data
We mostly used NASA official resources and YouTube videos. Videos gave us clear idea of what we want to record and guided us throughout the process .
Hackathon Journey
As we started our hackaton journey we had no clear vision of our final project. It was a complete new experience for me and my teammate. We developed our researching skills as well as scientific termins . We learned about new chemical gases such as Helium and Hydrogen.We also learned some termins from physics.
Before choosing this challenge we wanted to do something educational which shares awareness about certain scientific termin. Neither me nor my mate are good at science thusly we decided to gain new knowledge to ourselves as well share it with the community.
As we developed the project we first wanted to create a research work as a book , but we got inspired to make a video to give a better vision. The most difficult part during our hackathon journey was to collect information since this topic is quite unusual. We had hard time to understand the concept of HAB , however we worked out our best as team, exchanged ideas, brainstormed and got the final project as a result.
References
Refereces used :
- https://www.doxisafe.me/#/safe/retrieve/gjkla4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a42fEO0dZ0M&t=147s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QudqzI2iKk&t=373s
Tags
#SpaceApps2021, #HAB, #HighAltitudeBalloon, #Space, #NASA, #NearSpaceNearYou
Global Judging
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