Astrozest

Your Sun Deserves A Touch

High-Level Project Summary

Our project is a website that includes an e-book whose content simulates children to show them the mission of NASA "Parker solar probe" in space in an easy way. We have added simple activities NASA provides on its website that facilitates the space for children, but because of the lack of time, we could not implement all our ideas, so we put them in our future plans to develop our website. The content that simulates children is more interactive than narration and information. One of our most important future plans is to design a game whose content narrates the journey of the Parker Solar Probe to our solar system. Encouraging children to learn more and more about space and our solar galaxy.

Link to Final Project

https://omar1221031.wixsite.com/astrozest

Link to Project "Demo"

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vfGDp4c8N3cH6icGzR74AmeM2-ZPKu1A/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114283414527336089422&rtpof=true&sd=true

Detailed Project Description

On April 28, 2021, during its eighth flyby of the Sun, Parker Solar Probe did what no other human-made object has ever done: it “touched” the Sun—meaning the spacecraft flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere (the corona) and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. Our challenge is to develop a creative way to tell young audiences and children the inspiring story of Parker’s record-breaking journey from Earth to the Sun and all the perils it overcame on the way. The focus of the idea was how to provide purposeful scientific content to children that is easy to understand and they do not get bored of receiving scientific information in it, so we came up with an electronic book that presents the journey supported by pictures and animated videos that show the content of the e-book. Parker Solar Probe is the superhero in our story. We often find superheroes in Disney fairy tales only, but our spacecraft in his journey to our solar galaxy was able to be a hero who serves humanity in the long run by being close to the sun and exploring the mysteries and mysteries of our star that we did not know before that will help us In avoiding many natural disasters caused by the sun that affect our satellites and communication networks, and these explorations will make us predict the weather in space more clearly to determine the best climate for astronauts’ flights, Therefore, we had to present the journey of this superhero to the sun for children, but in a way that keeps pace with their minds, by supporting the story with many pictures, videos, activities, and critical thinking questions, in addition to a simple writing image for young children. We have supported our e-book with an audio version of it so that blind children can listen To Parker solar probe's amazing journey.

Space Agency Data

In our project, we depended on NASA's resources we used their articles, animations, and videos to be sure that our resources were trusted we thought that this interesting information must be easily shown to young audiences so we began to facilitate NASA's information about Parker solar probe by making a story has a hero in this was inspired by marvel to more interesting for children we added to the story animations and short videos to attract the intentions of the children. And we take the consideration that there are some children that not able to read so we made an audio version for our e-book (story).

Hackathon Journey

In the hackathon, these two days were very enjoyable. Besides that, we developed our communication and technical skills as we had to deal with many teams and we bad make a presentation to show our idea in a creative way to persuade the judges. Also, we developed our technical skills as we had to make a website and e-book to show our idea. Besides that, we tried to be under high pressure as we had to think and design our creative idea in two days.

Astrozest

Ismailia | On the Way to the Sun