High-Level Project Summary
The objective of our project is to develop a website and a mobile application that present information attractively and appropriately for two types of users: children and adults. Our team proposes a solution by combining the skills and knowledge of each of the members so that both the website and the mobile application encourage people's curiosity towards space-related topics, particularly the science behind the sun and its influence on our daily lives. The importance of our proposal is not only to communicate scientific information but also to make people aware of the fundamental role of the sun as a source of energy.
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Detailed Project Description
What exactly does it do?
A web page shows the information of the space missions related to the Sun, in a clear and understandable way aimed at the general public to motivate them to inquire more about the subject, testing what they have learned in an application for mobile devices.
How does it work?
The website is divided into 4 sections that are: adults, children, app and the sun in your life.
The adult section contains relevant information about space missions that monitor the Sun and space weather, the data is displayed clearly so that the reader can easily navigate and understand what he reads.
The children's section consists of a question and answer mission, the mission award consists of the revelation of the mascot and icon of the website, the type of answer is optional in order to be entertained with the children, when the person responds incorrectly a help is shown in order for people to acquire knowledge.
The application for mobile devices aims to reinforce what has been learned on the website through games, within the same application the solar plants that are close to the user are shown.
The sun in your life is a section that aims to provide information related to the sun, through videos, audios or any other means of information in a relaxed and friendly way.
Which has benefits?
Provide the general public with a website with clear and reliable information in a simple and friendly language that all people can understand regardless of their academic background
What do you hope to achieve?
Encourage and show a fun side of science, have new tools that facilitate access to information that we have available but which by its nature is difficult to understand.
What tools, coding languages, hardware or software did you use to develop your project?
Tools: Bootstrap, CSS, HTML; Programming languages: Java, Javascript; Software: Visual Studio Code, Android Studio.
Space Agency Data
Our main sources were NASA and ESA official webpages. In order to provide true and reliable information to the general public and also to facilitate access to scientific information for the Spanish-speaking community. The information was divided for two types of audience, adults and children.
The mentioned pages had something in particular, a section for children, this motivated us to develop a more interactive section for this audience where scientific concepts were explained with appropriate words to facilitate their understanding.
In addition, when reading about the study of the Sun we realize the enormous source of energy that we have and how we can use it to our advantage, we hope in the future to be able to continue spreading more information about solar science so that people are aware of renewable energies and the importance of the Sun in our daily life.
Hackathon Journey
It was an adrenaline-filled experience in the search for information, materials and organization.
It is the first time we have worked together on a project of this importance, so we have learned not only concepts about the Sun, we also learned about ourselves.
We are still focused on developing some product that brings science closer to people, with enough time we could innovate in more functionalities.
We organized ourselves using Whats App, Google Meet, Mirosoft Teams, Discord and Google Drive storage to solve the problem of long distance communication. Sleeping was still a problem, but to keep lamoral we played music, movies and chatted.
We would like to thank Victoria, the person who contacted us and organized the whole project.
References
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/spaceweather/sp/
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sunburn/sp/
https://power.larc.nasa.gov
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/solar-orbiter
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/solar-probe
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/voyager
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/ace
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/ibex
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/elfin
https://www.esa.int/Space_in_Member_States/Spain/Curiosidades_sobre_el_Sol
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/overview/
https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/space-weather
https://science.nasa.gov/missions-page?field_division_tid=All&field_phase_tid=All
Tags
#sun
Global Judging
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