High-Level Project Summary
Our project is a story/video for kids aged 6-10 who are interested in the journey of the Parker Solar Probe. The narrative is told from the Probe's point of view as it travels across space. Various animations in the book/video will captivate readers and urge them to keep reading.Our story educates children about one of Nasa's most cutting-edge and legendary space shuttle.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Produced using Canva, a graphic design platform, our project aims to inform young aspiring astrophysicists about the Parker Solar Probe and help children visualise the journey of the probe and the information it has collected.
In order to make it engaging to our target audience (6-10 year olds), we have written our story in the perspective of the probe, as if it were a human, giving it a fun personality. We’ve kept the language simple yet informative. Bright colors, pictures and playful animations adorn the pages.
We hope this project can help shed light on the 4-year expedition of the probe to long-time followers and new readers alike.
PLZ NOTE:
The video quality for our final project may not be very good. So here is the link to our canva as well, but that may have some issues on the first and second slide, to solve them you will have to move 4 slides forward and then return to the first slide again. We are really sorry about these inconveniences.
LINK TO CANVA:
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFNtEtrFEs/3z2T0A87TON8t3Rqns2p6A/view?utm_content=DAFNtEtrFEs&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton#2
Space Agency Data
We made use of the information provided by NASA about the Parker Solar Probe's journey to Venus and the Sun. We were able to learn important details regarding the dates and implications of these occurrences for humanity thanks to data collected by NASA.
Nearly every website in the resource tab included information that we used to create the plot for our story. In order to make the facts easier for young children to understand, we also modified the language in which they were presented.
Example: The information regarding the material used to construct the Parker Solar Probe was provided when the probe wondered how it had not melted while being so close to the sun.
Hackathon Journey
Our experience in the space apps challenge was awesome. We learned a lot about NASA and about the Parker Solar Probe. Our team chose this challenge because the fact that one of NASA's space shuttles actually "touched" the sun was really cool, and we thought that there should be more awareness about this mission in public. We believe that there are many children who are interested in space and some who could be, but they are not receiving the appropriate resources that will encourage them to take their interest in this direction, so that is why we decided to make a book for kids about The Parker Solar Probe - one of NASA's most cutting-edge and legendary space shuttle.
Our team didn't face many challenges as we are all interested in space and we know quite a lot about it as well, plus we are all pretty well aware of how to use canva and our group had brilliant writers as well, so that was an advantage.
And finally we would like to thank our dear friend, Hafsah Saif, for being the most mature, modest and understanding person ever. We would like to thank her also for continuously asking us if we needed any help despite not being part of our team. Thanks Hafsah, we love you!!
References
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LkaLfbuB_6E&feature=youtu.be
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XBudjihQKsw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/traveling-to-the-sun-why-won-t-parker-solar-probe-melt/
https://www.nasa.gov/aurora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
https://toppng.com/uploads/preview/sun-transparent-background-11549877996b3hvaflom7.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Parker_Solar_Probe_spacecraft_model.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Parker_Solar_Probe_spacecraft_model_2.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Parker_Solar_Probe_insignia.png/768px-Parker_Solar_Probe_insignia.png
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/compare_magellan_3rdflyby.jpg
The rest of the images, effects, animations and other items are from Canva.
Tags
#arts, #space, #parkersolarprobe, #nasa, #shuttle, #sun, #venus