FaNASAtic Four

Pasadena | Nimbus to Now: The History of NASA’s Earth-Observing Missions

Nimbus to Now: (website, game, video presentation, stop motion video)

High-Level Project Summary

Our team developed a website to inform the new generations (age 10 - 18) of NASA's Earth observing missions in a friendly way. Our project aims to educate new generations about the history of NASA missions since the launching of the Nimbus Series, as younger ages start consuming media of less educated subjects. This is incredibly important because we provide up-to date sources that you can find in one area to access a history of information on the advancements of satellites throughout decades. The video game portion of our website enables an interactive media to engage our audience more thoroughly.

Link to Final Project

https://liu0501y.editorx.io/my-site-1

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/vW-rN7VsWds

Detailed Project Description

Website:

Our website gives a brief summary of each of the Nimbus along with the launch date. There’s also a button that you can click to access more detailed information about each Nimbus. After scrolling past the Nimbus series, you can find other satellites after them that have also impacted us and made advancements in NASA’s Earth observing history. Under each of those newer satellites you will also be able to find the launch dates, purpose, impact, and more detailed information. We developed our project using Editor X, a free website creator.

Game:

A game can also be found on the website to help younger generations to find space more fascinating. The game contains 2 different Nimbus for you to choose from. Each Nimbus is different. The main objective of this game is to avoid all the asteroids while moving the satellite.

Video:

Once you scroll further towards the bottom of the website, you will be able to find a stop motion video. The video contains a satellite orbiting our Earth.

Space Agency Data

Link-https://eospso.nasa.gov/missions/nimbus-1

We were inspired by this website with all the details they had on the Nimbus series. The website contains photos and photos of space. This inspired us to add photos of space into our website. Most of our information on our Nimbus series website was from this website.

Hackathon Journey

Our Space Apps experience was one filled with hope, worries, and triumph. To be honest, a rollercoaster of emotions would be an understatement. We began our project with an ambitious vision, and through overcoming a great deal of challenges, we believe we've accomplished what we set out to do. While scrolling through the various choices on the NASA webpage, we came across one challenge that stood out: Nimbus to Now. We believed that this project would be the most influential for the youth, as we strived to bring newer generations into the space world. As teens, we understand that children can be unaware of their privilege, so we decided Nimbus to Now would be a perfect challenge to undertake, as it shows the progress NASA's made over the decades. Our approach was like our project: sophisticated and simple. We wanted to supply youths with engaging information, and we felt that a fun website and game would be the perfect solution. We came across various setbacks whilst creating the website and game, but through accessing everyone's different skills, we overcame the challenges easily. Overall, everyone on the team had a great time, and our project not only serves to educate those younger than us, it also taught us some valuable lessons along the way. For one, we learned the importance of teamwork and coordination, as teamwork helped us get through many challenges and we would've never finished on time without our team's coordination. I'd like to thank all my teammates, who I've met only today, and nonetheless helped me with the best of their abilities.