Super Planktons

Cairo | SuperpowEARTH

Super planktons

High-Level Project Summary

A superpower exists, and it is the main reason for having living creatures, oxygen, the important gas for respiration, in addition to its role in keeping the earth's temperature balanced. Decreased amount of oxygen means a disaster, dead creatures, and a burnt planet because of global warming. Plants are a good solution, they produce about 28% of earth's oxygen, they aren't that important because phytoplankton produce about 70% of earth's oxygen. Although, we still don't have enough oxygen. regarding the conditions and factors of growth _carbon dioxide, sunlight, and warm water, in addition to nitrates and phosphorus_, phytoplankton will have better growth and oxygen production.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UGio13NykAX1ilNTuckPQqMu6_x4s3kB

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UGio13NykAX1ilNTuckPQqMu6_x4s3kB

Detailed Project Description

Despite having a very popular myth that rainforests are responsible for producing oxygen. In reality, the real superhero who is responsible for producing the largest amount of oxygen is a kind of marine algae, called phytoplankton. As facts worth spreading, we tried to fix this false information by raising awareness about the phytoplankton who are considered the lungs of our planet.

After creating visual aid tools containing awesome facts about our superhero, we designed a website for representing our thoughts and ideas. On the website, we provided multiple types of information, i.e: voice notes _for blind people and those who are not interested in reading_, videos _for catching anyone's eyes, in addition to the scientific articles that were filled with scientific facts.

What makes things more important, is the passion we realized when we collected opinions from the pre-survey, many people from multiple stages were amazed about this very tiny creature that has this superpower.

Our mission from going through such a challenge is investing in youth knowledge and raising their awareness about the climatic changes and their consequences on us and our planet.

Technically, the coding languages we used for our website were CSS, PHP and HTML, besides the free resources and the space agency data that helped us in knowing more and more about the nature of phytoplankton.

Space Agency Data

By reviewing the space agency data, we found more facts about our topic, and especially climatic changes and more about earth characteristics, like atmosphere, oxygen, algae and water. We used it in the scientific articles of our website as it inspired our project with scientific evidence.

Hackathon Journey

Out of all our previous experiences in raising people's awareness, speaking up about our environment and brainstorming to find better solutions, our space apps experience was totally unique, because of the mentorship system, the source-based researching, the clear objectives of the challenge and finally the past examples of the same challenge.

Besides the benefits of team working, we gained many skills in web development, graphic designing, researching, content writing, video editing and voice-over. In addition, we learned more about marine life and the environment as our project is based on a type of marine algae (phytoplankton).

When choosing the challenge, we were amazed by the idea of having super abilities, as a result, we started thinking about a characteristic that can be superior to any other one. After choosing the specific idea of phytoplankton, we brainstormed to find the second objective, which is the benefits to human health as an extra superpower.

While working on the project, we separated our roles into multiple jobs. First, the web developer was responsible for designing the website and coding. Second, the researchers were responsible for content creation which was composed of two phases (research and content writing). Then, multi-media specialists were responsible for graphic designing, video editing and voice-over.

When we faced hard situations during the hackathon, we depended on the soul of our team, our support was the reason for not giving up despite all the difficulties we faced. Furthermore, the cooperation and diversity of roles removed any obstacle besides the proficiency level of all the team members.

Last but not least, we would like to thank all the members of Cairo branch for their hard effort during the last period.