Super Youth

Follow your dreams. They know the way!

High-Level Project Summary

Does it always take geniuses like Einstein or Nobel Prize winners to create a space telescope? It must be a surprise to you that this delicate model of the James Webb Space Telescope(JWST) was made by a 14 years old junior high schooler. He finished this project with the abundant image resources from NASA and all kinds of daily-used papers in just below two days.In order to make this project to be more influential and to reach more people, Maker & Tech Center of New Taipei City (New Taipei Municipal Yungho Junior School) has thus included the project into their curriculum for inspiring more young adults and their parents to be creative and go beyond the imagination in the future.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DgIZmbKtk_YPrmVb2kDcWvUv2DR1PB0I?usp=sharing

Link to Final Project

https://hackmd.io/@xZf63a04R1q0JqLoKACpFw/SuperYouth

Detailed Project Description

How We Addressed This Challenge

Make your wish upon the stars! The stars, and of course, space is such a fascinating and yet very strange world for Che-Hsun Hsu.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope in human history. To celebrate its soon-to-realize launch for mankind to further explore the infinity and beyond: it aims to capture the image of the galaxies from the beginning of the universe, the Big Bang, in order to unveil the mysteries that the Hubble Space Telescope couldn’t reach.

For the decennial of NASA Hackathon, Hsu decided to be a preacher for the greatness he sees in space. He applied his forte in building models: creating a delicate, miniature model of JWST. The goal of Hsu is to attract his peers and fellow citizens to be intrigued by his model, thus to cultivate their interests in space, technology, and broaden their horizon.

This is also a lesson plan for junior high students: by building the model of JWST, we hope to inspire more teenagers to be involved in space science and to be a future leader.

How We Developed This Project

Che-Hsun completes this project based on the resource: JWST Deployment and Beauty Animations, provided by NASA to build the miniature model of JWST. Viola produces the short film and creates lesson plans to attract junior high schoolers to get intrigued by the JWST miniature model. Serena helps with the translation and proofreading.

The miniature JWST model will be displayed in the Maker & Tech Center, on the campus of New Taipei Municipal Yungho Junior School, in hope to reach more teenagers in the neighborhood and thus inspire their thoughts and interests toward space technology.

#Challenge and Difficulty

It was time for the important midterm. Che-Hsun had finally convinced his parents to agree to his participation in the Tenth NASA Hackathon, on the last day of its open call for application. It wasn’t an easy decision, since Hsu was also under pressure from midterm. Yet, something greater inside drove him. That was when Viola stepped in. She helped him sign up for the Hackathon, connected resources from the Maker & Tech Center, provided materials and tools, and lastly found Serena on Slack and in Gather Town created by g0v as their language supervisor. It all started with Che-Hsun’s action. And he is forever grateful for his supportive parents on his way to realize his dreams.

Space Agency Data

Watching the JWST Deployment and Beauty Animations provided by NASA.

Using every kind of approachable papery items as the main materials; such as waste-recycled cardboard, thick cardboard, watercolor paper, tinfoil, corrugated cardboard,…etc., and different kinds of supportive structural materials, i.g. wire, super glue, hot-melt adhesive, spray can, vernier caliper,…etc. to complete the miniature model of JWST.

Creating lesson plans for Chinese-oriented junior high students with STEM Resources for K-12.

Hackathon Journey

Che-Hsun completes this project based on the resource: JWST Deployment and Beauty Animations, provided by NASA to build the miniature model of JWST. Viola produces the short film and creates lesson plans to attract junior high schoolers to get intrigued by the JWST miniature model. Serena helps with the translation and proofreading.

The miniature JWST model will be displayed in the Maker & Tech Center, on the campus of New Taipei Municipal Yungho Junior School, in hope to reach more teenagers in the neighborhood and thus inspire their thoughts and interests toward space technology.