High-Level Project Summary
Our project will be able to solve many challenges due to the lack of interest and importance in satellites launched in the past and today, due to little information and little knowledge.The objective will be to demonstrate an attractive way to contribute to satellite missions through science with new technologies and solutions, through visualization and multimedia material, to promote and inspire the approach to science and technological development. Our project will be aimed at inspiring all young people at the beginning of their path to the support and study of science and preparation to contribute to satellite missions.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Within the development of the challenge, we decided to use python as a programming language since it is one of the most versatile languages to use, which also allows us to work interactively with Ren'py, which is free software, where videos can be inserted. , images, characters with which you can create novels, games, etc.
We use the Ren'py engine within Visual Studio Code which is a cross-platform programming editor and to be able to work in a better way with Ren'py.
The characters that appear within the development of the novel described above were defined, variables were declared to save images both for the background of the novel and for that of the characters and in the end call the variables at the moment where the images will appear. .
The entire chronology handles the processes of defining, declaring and calling what has already been declared in order to have a well-defined process.
To finish within the entire novel, quotation marks (“narration”) were used to make the narration within the novel.
What will be achieved with the novel is to be able to arouse the reader's interest in the history of NASA in a more didactic way and different from what is usually done (extensive searches on the Internet where the reader can get bored with a lot of information), to be able to reach the reader in a way that they can stay focused through images, videos, and narration.
With everything described about the novel, we want to reach young people who can learn NASA stories through dynamic reading, in this case the novel.
Developing an interactive and dynamic graphic novel, with a fanciful and emotional story, including the history of the relationship and the journey that humanity made towards our planet through space and the universe, obtaining creative learning and complete information and highlighting the importance and launch need. of new satellite missions on our planet.
Space Agency Data
We read a lot from CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY and Earth Observing Dashboard
We used it for inspiring our narrative and bring a rich story with a phenomenal image on the background, inspired by all the information we started our story to write on our novel.
Hackathon Journey
We are Suqta Estrellas, a group of 6 young people with innovative dreams, enthusiastic about dazzling in our project, even though we started our journey with 4 university students of technology and economics confident in our knowledge, at the stops of our trip we found two passionate schoolchildren who they were able to enlarge our vision by giving a broader perspective on our ideas.
Seeing the potential of our team and taking into account that this is the first hackathon that we participated in, we wanted to enjoy and learn by gaining experiences, so we decided to select the challenge that most caught our attention: “NIMBUS TO NOW: THE HISTORY OF NASA’S EARTH-OBSERVING MISSIONS”
We focus on promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and helping students with technology in an entertaining way so that they can learn about NASA's missions around the earth with the support of the young college students we have in our group.
In this process we had some difficulties, we were very lost on how to start, but after analyzing the public we had and their interests we took the idea of making a graphic novel that could engage these young people in the NASA Missions that contribute to the earth and thus promote science at the time of their career choice.
Another of our Challenges was to find an order in the earth observation missions given that in the resources provided by official space pages we found many flaws such as broken or useless links, this delayed us in collecting and ordering information but with a lot of effort we were able to address our mission.
References
Many background photos are from NASA, diagrams used were made by Andrew Z. Colvin
Voyager 1 photo pale blue dot, from NASA too.
Tags
#NASA #SPACE #SUQTAESTRELLAS #NASASPACEAPPSCHALLEGE #CHALLENGE #BOLIVIA #COCHABAMBA #Python #Renpy #Game #Fun