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Sun is here: an educational website.


Summary:

Created by Galaxy IS students. Sun is here is an educational website. Information by NASA and its missions are used. Our aim is to educate people and create awareness about the Sun and explain importance of Sun and human actions on our planet. As people read the articles and answer questions in the form of quizzes, they will find themselves in a problem and solution matter, as missions and results of NASA missions to sun is used in our website. Viewers of website will create awareness, even change and share information about climate effects of emission by human acts mixed with the radiation from the sun.


OUR TEAM

Students, volunteering in researching areas and with some specific experiences came together. Our aim is to improve our skills, like critical thinking, teamwork and written communication.


Inspired by...

We are inspired by educative websites were students are learning and solving at the same time, and as the topic was about unlocking secretes, we chose to educate people by showing the secrets!


SOLUTION:

An educational interactive website that will help the users find out more information about spacecrafts, which explore the sun, and realize the impact of these valuable data on our lives.

Users can read the informative articles,  ask questions on their interested topics, and then pass the tests and quizzes. This helps

people to become more educated, or in some cases develop an interest in particular spheres of science.  Moreover,  these people can even answer to some of the questions asked by the other users, which will lead to better interactions in the site. 


What we made?

The problem is to unlock the secrets of the Sun. Our solution was to show people the importance of the Sun not only as a planet, but also as our source of light and heat energy.


Building knowledge:

By collecting the information from the NASA website and missions, we made a website, were students learn and test their knowledge. Each user can ask their questions and find more information. In the part, "You have a mission" give the chance of helping other ambitious eco people by answering their questions. In schools subjects about climate, teachers may use to the topic related to sun and its effect as an outer source of energy to earth.


Why we chose this challenge?

Usually, education and information about sun is not taught to students and people don't have enough knowledge in this area. As there are websites exist about educating people in fields like climate change, why don't we have a platform where individuals learn?


IMPORTANCE

As the tech keeps improving with the speed of light , it is vital to stay on tune. The same is thing is happening in the field of astronomy and universe overall, and just like in tech it will help us understand more the structure of the astronomical universe.  It is the only star close enough to us to reveal details about its surface. In this way, solar astronomy teaches us much about stars. Planetary systems, galaxies, and the universe itself. 


OUR AIM...

Is to create knowledgeable individuals with an idea in some areas that people are usually not interested in. Like the Sun, people just see it as a heat ball that gives us heat and light. A huge planet in the heart of our solar system can have more effects and its own environment. We want to educate people, create interest and explain the impacts.


We used Figma to develop our website.


tools: HTML CSS Google Fonts

Repl.it as the software for coding


we created:

  •  Deploy the all-set website to the public 
  • The access to people sharing their knowledge. 
  • interactive games  of the practical skills 
  • Q&A platform among the users


Challenges

  1. A crazy team leader and coder spent all her time on website.
  2. SAT student had exam on Saturday and couldn't join us.
  3. Half of the team in quarantined at the last moment, tasks are discussed online and divided between us.


References

  • https://climatescience.org/advanced-energy-biggest-pro
  • https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/exploration/#:~:text=NASA%27s%20big%20mission%20to%20the%20Sun%20is%20the,Observatory%20%28SOHO%29%20and%20NASA%27s%20Solar%20Dynamic%20Observatory%20%28SDO%29.
  • https://www.nasa.gov/content/solar-orbiter-overview
  • https://www.nasa.gov/sun
  • NASA - Why Do We Want To Know More About Our Sun?
  • https://www.space.com/41400-greatest-missions-to-the-sun.html


OUR FINAL RESULTS:

  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ss2mqaQcZgq_wBysQCRbJOeg1lj9JLGrE3cyEqNE9t8/edit?usp=sharing
  • https://unusualjuvenileglitch.viens.repl.co/index.html
  • and the code of the website https://replit.com/@viens/UnusualJuvenileGlitch#index.html
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