High-Level Project Summary
The earth is continuously trying to repair its atmosphere and the so-called "ozone layer" through natural cleaning cycles. Therefore, we need to make younger generations aware of this fatal threat. However, Mrs. Earth, as a main character in the Comic, reached what's called a "critical point".In fact, a brief fictional simulation of a possible destiny makes kids and younger generations aware of the prominence of the issue through entertaining comics. Returning to the story, the main character is at the point where he lost the valuable ability "atmosphere" and to have it fixed, he needs to acquire a new super ability. Yet, do all issues recover after harm?
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Detailed Project Description
When asked to personify earth's abilities , we thought that the best format that suits such type of challenges would be a comic book . It will illustrate the powers of earth and the whole challenge in a fun and entertaining way , keep it youth friendly with the simple explanations of the power we chose , which is the atmosphere and the whole idea of a new acquired superpower will be so natural in a comic book context . We then constructed the plot and designed the characters : The plot was linear and not so complicated , to not deviate from the main goal of the challenge and in the same time it is entertaining enough to attract the attention of the kids .The character designs were simple yet unique and serve their educational purpose .With some effort , we could
concretize some of the scientefic info into simple scenes .The goal of this simple project is to raise awareness about the multiple powers of earth that most of us are ignorant of .
Space Agency Data
NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming documentation about current situation and asessment of needed actions , got data about global warming and potential damages to the atmosphere and the ozone layer
Hackathon Journey
Experiencing NASA Space Apps challenge was such an interesting opportunity. We got to learn several things from it as we had to
be efficient and effective during a limited period of time which made us value time .Besides, we learned that discipline is a must
in such missions.Moreover, we acquired the sense of working with a group harmoniously and think as one, the importance of of
accepting others ideas wholeheartedly and in return express ourselves and try to convince others .
The reason why we chose this challenge is because it's a creative one that incites to proceed inventively. Plus it raises awareness among present and future generations to preserve Earth and focuses on finding solutions to some dangers that encounter the whole world and Mankind in general.
Seeing the project's youth friendly aim, we proceeded based on that and came up with an idea that would definetly suit our
targeted audience:Comic books, the ultimate friend of all kids. Basically, we tried to transmit the information and some basic
environmental knowledge in a funny and simple way.
Throughout the process, several setbacks and challenges showed our way: from simplyfing complicated data for youth to time
limitations. However, we succeded in double-crossing them thanks to our cooperativeness and harmony. We divided tasks between us so that we gain some time but we sticked together and never hesitated to ask each other for help.Plus resources provided by
NASA came in handy as they filled us with many key data.
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Tags
#art #comics #pollution #earth #entertainment #science #fiction
Global Judging
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