Apples to space

Skopje | On the Way to the Sun

Catching the Sun

High-Level Project Summary

"The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe" - as Eugene Parker said, our team believes our primary studies for the universe starts with the closest star to our planet - the Sun. That is why, we chose this challenge and created a fun educational video that shows the meaning, achievements of the Parker Solar Probe. It's never too late to learn something new!

Link to Final Project

https://youtu.be/wufXqoftrms

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/dlfvRi9Y4Hw

Detailed Project Description

Outer space is a place full of secrets, unsolved mysteries and weird encounters. But, one thing is for sure, humans are capable to do and create anything. Our team is filled with members who live in North Macedonia. We believe that our hometown isn't educated enough in general physical science, physics, astronomy and space. This project is a great way of changing that, and helping the next generations learn new important space facts, such as the Parker Solar Probe. This probe's journey is unique, one of a kind and has made history for our civilization. Our team found a way to show the importance of this story to our younger generations by creating a high-end video. Our audience will be able to watch the video and understand it's topic without big knowledge about current space activities. In our project demonstration, we have given useful information about the nearest star to Earth - our Sun, how the Parker Solar Probe endures very high temperatures, it's own path from Earth to the solar atmosphere and the whole meaning of it's record-breaking journey. We believe this is the most effective way of catching the attention not only to the younger audience, but everyone who is interested in learning some simple facts and information about an important story. This is a video that can be seen by anyone around the world, and still receive the same message we are attempting to transmit. We hope that this project will cause a new begging by increasing interests in these branches. We are looking forward to sharing our educational demos with our families, friends, classmates, fellow town citizens and everyone around the social media platforms.

With the simple use of Google Search, YouTube, Windows Video Editor, Paint 3D we created, people will be able to spend 30 seconds reaching for the sun, and who knows, maybe someone will be motivated enough to learn more.

Space Agency Data

Data is the key way into forming a great solution for a specific challenge. With the help of space agency data ( European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Australian Space Agency, Indian Space Research Organisation) our team was able to create an excellent solution for our challenge. It helped us with learning and analyzing the story and path of the Parker's Solar Probe in depth, the work and name behind it, what changes were made by this historical victory and what comes next after this successful mission. All of this information helped us how to narrate the story so we are able to share it with our younger audience.

Hackathon Journey

Every year Space Apps makes sure to give it's users the most wonderful journey possible. This year was no exception. Our team was able to choose from numerous different challenges and pick the most suitable one. We picked the "ON THE WAY TO THE SUN" challenge because, based on our skills and personal traits, we were able to express ourselves through art and storytelling our favorite topics. After a long debate about what our move will be on this project, we created something modest, but notable too. There were some setbacks and stops through our path to the end, but that never stopped us in finishing our project the way we imagined it. It was an unbelievable experience, filled with so much new form of learning, fun and practice for further studies. Our team would like to thank Booz Allen Hamilton, Mindgrub, SecondMuse, and the NASA Open Innovation Applied Sciences Program for giving us the opportunity in participating in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge, all of the hard working members that were part of our team and everyone around us supporting our work and ideas.