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In Need Of Change Against Climate Change

High-Level Project Summary

Our homeland, Egypt, severely suffers from the consequences of climate change; water scarcity, reduction of agricultural production, rising sea levels, floods, and more factors threaten our survival. In order to take a forward step and prevent the upcoming catastrophe from occurring, we created a 3-minute storytelling video that addresses the impacts of climate change on both the coastal and agricultural areas and shows the tragedic future if we ignored the warning signs and did not take an opposing action. Our aim of this video is to spread awareness of climate change's critical impacts and to motivate citizens to take action against it.

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16fHpWGABZjldB-P-tDSvuaB0VXRdQ99p?usp=sharing

Link to Project "Demo"

https://prezi.com/view/RbCvkY7zhcxosWVUjRf6/

Detailed Project Description

Our project is a study case of how Egyptian coastal and agricultural areas are now affected by climate change through an impressive flashbacked future-predicted ship story that seeks help against climate change, where an Egyptian shipmaster who emigrated from Egypt since his childhood decided to return back to the cruise for days long down the Nile river, the Delta and the Mediterranean sea. 


 The video offers a brief study case within crucial statistics and photos that patterns the data to effectively present the result and engage the precise analyses. 

It also shows how we're edging dangerously to the threshold to alarm each and everyone to start acting against climate change.

The catastrophic end of the ship in Alexandria which is the sinking of the ship due to sea level rise is the fate of all living beings if no decisive actions are being taken to the alarming environmental factors Egypt faces now.


Through international quotes, like that of Barack Obama:" Climate change is no longer a far-off problem, it's happening now, it's happening here". We tried to arouse the interest of the listener by influencing him with the dangers that surround us from all sides and that will destroy our country if we do not pay attention and each of us begins to be aware of climate change.

- As for the used tools to develop the project, we have used Nasa resources along with certain websites shown in the references to collect data and statistics.

Camtasia for making up the video.

Space Agency Data

NASA Climate Change:


  • Sea level increment
  • Ocean Warming
  • (interactives) Eyes on the Earth 3D to obtain a figure of the air temperature in the Mediterranean sea.
  • Images of Change " the Nile Delta’s disappearing farmland".


NASA Earth Observatory:


  • More information about "the Nile Delta’s disappearing farmland".
  • Alexandria's agricultural areas.
  • Mediterranean sea level rise.
  • Land subsidence.

Hackathon Journey

This competition helped us exert ideas and perform our thoughts in a scientific manner and perform work through innovations and creativity.

We improved punctuality regarding deadlines and teamwork, where members worked together so that everyone knew what the other had done. We also learned to extract data from spacecraft at NASA sites.

We are all concerned about making a difference environmentally, as each one of us has noticed how the city where he lives is gradually alarming us with catastrophic climate changes. Thus, we wanted to spread awareness for every citizen and environmental institutions that can help us preserve our climate for future generations.

Our approach was to make a small dramatic scene through which it can influence the viewer since we are declaring what will happen to Egypt if we do not pay attention to the changes that are taking place now, so he himself begins to work on preserving the environment and spreading awareness to all his acquaintances.

Our project isn't objected to solve problems but to spread awareness and call for help, so we succeeded in putting our needs throughout the video. Finally, We'd like to thank NASA for the fruitful resources that were shared with us, and thanks for making us able to work out our creativity in a team project

References

Tags

#Climate_Change, #Coastal_Areas , #Agricultural_Areas, #Water_Shortage, #Storytelling

How Does Climate Change Affect You?

Climate change is a universal topic that may affect people all over our planet in different ways. Your challenge is to create a short video that provides factual and educational information about climate change based on where you might be located or experiences you may have encountered.