High-Level Project Summary
Our project takes the advantage of our web development experience and skills (HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT) to make a website that presents a simplified and a more interactive way of providing information about satellites, earth observing systems, and instruments and technologies used in the satellites. Our website is very interactive and simple to use and understand the information in.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
A problem that faces most kids, some young people, and even old people are how information is provided to them in a very complicated and hard-to-understand way. Most scientific topics, and topics in general, are provided on websites these days, or mobile applications. There is a serious problem with most of these providences of scientific topics, which is that they are provided in a complicated and boring or uninteresting way to understand. Most websites provide the information with no interactivity nor care about whether the user is a kid, a young boy, or a researcher. And each one of those needs a specific way to provide the information, for example, a kid needs the information provided to him to be simple and in a very fun and interactive way, so, provided with lots of pictures and animation. A young man would need the information provided in a very interactive way, but he doesn't need it to be fun, a researcher needs the information provided to be detailed, and he doesn't care if it's simple, fun, or interactive, he just needs the information. But, for the sake of achieving the best results for each age group, interactivity, simplicity, fun, and detailed way of providing information should be met. That's what we basically did, we gathered simplicity with fun and detail with interaction. Our project helps all age groups to understand how there are different types of satellites, how each type work, and giving an example of each type, so the user could understand the information in every aspect possible. We made a website that contains cool effects for all age groups to love, and with enough information so that people get the most out of the provided topic (Satellites). We are willing to keep developing our website, updating it with new technologies and information found every day. We hope to keep adding new animation, and interactivity to our website as technologies are evolving every day. We look forward to finding new ways of providing information. And we are definitely deciding to keep an eye on our website so it stays updated at all times.
Space Agency Data
We used data about the satellites and the technology and applications used in it. We got most of the information from NASA's website and from other trusted recourses. We used data about the earth observation system and the data got by it.
Hackathon Journey
It was a very hard journey during NASA space apps in Alexandria as we stayed awake for a long time working on our project, Also we realized that we misunderstood parts of the challenge so we started again from the beginning.
We had learned so much from this opportunity. We learned to work under stress and to make use of our time. We learned a lot about the space agency and about web development.
While choosing the challenge we felt the necessity to inform the public people specially the children about NASA's space missions and the importance of the Earth observing satellites. We also chose it because we had advanced knowledge in web development.
Helping people form all ages and cultured and backgrounds to understand more about satellite in an entertaining and simple ways
We had some coding problems that prevented us from execute the website but we reviewed the code many time and spent so much time debugging till we found the problem. Then we researched the problem and thankfully solved the problem.
We want to thank the volunteers because they helped us achieve our goals.
References
- https://science.nasa.gov/missions-page?field_division_tid=103&field_phase_tid=All
- https://eospso.nasa.gov/content/all-missions
- https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/earth-observation/
- https://eodashboard.org/

