PSP Mind Builders

A journey to the sun

High-Level Project Summary

We solved this challenge by making a board game that will be interesting for younger audiences and kids because it is made in a fun and intriguing way. We thought of a game with a mechanism similar to that of the snakes & ladders game. Up to four players can play at the same time. Every player rolls the dice the number they roll indicates the number of steps they will move. When landing on a cell with an event, the player draws a card. The card dictates their next move. The card also explains the event, and we will leave a QR code on every card, too. This QR code is linked to a short video explaining the event in a simple way. Another feature we added was ‘’trivia’’ .

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/111UKueB5KPxBSFkjZWW7qBBtMrz_3mQb

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16SYrf0zhBuFkJ3Rd2mpBqlVzhgZ7vWjs/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

Definition:

P.S.P is a different-interesting invention, as it is the first spacecraft that approximately touches the sun which has high temperature. The corona of the sun has a higher temperature than its surface, so it was a very hard challenge to develop a shield that can adapt to such high temperatures. So its launch is a very important event that a lot of people should know about . Especially young audiences as they will be our future scientists.

Solution:

We solved this challenge by making a board game that will be interesting for younger audiences and kids because it is made in a fun and intriguing way. We thought of a game with a mechanism similar to that of the snakes & ladders game. upto 4 players can play at the same time.Every player rolls the dice the number they roll indicates the number of steps they will move. When landing on a cell with an event, the player draws a card. the card dictates whether they’ll move forwards or backwards We made a card for every event. the card also explains the event and we will leave a QR code on every card, too. This QR code is linked to a short video talking about the event with a very simple and scientific way. Another feature we added was ‘’trivia’’ if a player lands on a cell containing a question mark they’ll have to follow the qr code on the board which will lead them to a wheel containing many questions, They’ll have to answer correctly or else they’ll have to move -2 steps backwards. The first player who reaches the sun, he will be the winner.

After getting the idea of the solution for the challenge we find that we are the first team that make a board game similar to a snake & ladders game. Our target isn’t making another ordinary board game. Most board games which its target is just playing and having fun. Our target is to make young people know more information about the space especially P.S.P and the effects that affect P.S.P in its journey by a very simple and scientific way in addition to having fun and playing. We also made sure to use recycable materials while making our prototype.

Age:

The challenge targets the young audience so the board game targets the kids aged from 7 to 18, we designed to use technology techniques for kids who can use technology. And who want to know more about space and get un simplified information in their young age, also we targeted the young kids who can’t use technology. We aim to make them also benefit from the information that already exists while playing the game in a fun way, so it was made for young and big kids (teenagers) without exceptions.

Conc:

We are sure that this game will make difference between the known game between kids nowadays as not many people care about the benefits that the kid will get while playing a game and they miss the sense of fun in the educational videos so the kid will get bored during study or while trying to search about space information so a board game with a QR code which opens video will be interesting as the kids learn and enjoy learning by getting fun by playing the game.

Space Agency Data

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.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://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2021/11/10/space-dust-presents-opportunities-challenges-as-parker-solar-probe-speeds-back-toward-the-sun/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/five-weird-things-that-happen-in-outer-space/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasas-parker-solar-probe-sheds-new-light-on-the-sun/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-scientists-around-world-track-solar-cycle-sunspots-sun/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/five-questions-about-space-weather-and-its-effects-on-earth-answered/

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/overview/

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/sun/

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2021/12/14/solar-tour-pit-stop-12-at-the-sun/

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2021/12/11/solar-tour-pit-stop-9-the-solar-wind/

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2021/12/10/solar-tour-pit-stop-8-venus/

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/home/

https://www.nasa.gov/aurora

Hackathon Journey

Before we met, we were working on different projects with different teams. We began to get to know each other during the first day of the Nasa Cairo bootcamp. We decided we wanted to work together. We began by brainstorming ideas for an application for the James Webb Challenge. But after seeing this challenge, we were very intrigued by the idea and decided to work on the "on the way to the sun instead." We didn't know much about the Parker solar probe at first. We started reading everything we could find on the NASA website about the probe. We wanted to try our best to help young children learn more about the probe. We decided on a simple boardgame explaining all aspects of the probe and its journey. on the day of the hackathon the leader jana began by distributing our tasks. Habiba took care of all the designs of the boardgame, the characters and the videos. Basma was responsible for manual work and asking various mentors , volunteers and experts in child education. Adham and Elaria were the team researchers. they did all off our research for the probe.

Jana the leader along with making sure everyone was doing their work also did most of the writing and manual work on the prototype. We would like to thank shaimaa atta for helping us regarding how to make our boardgame fit for younger audiences.