Semilla Force

Chihuahua | On the Way to the Sun

ON THE WAY TO THE SUN

High-Level Project Summary

Our team chose this project because we had a incredible dynamic and innovative idea with the purpose of sharing a little bit of the magnificent science and the technologies through the eyes of a child, exploring and using the visuals, audio, lecture ambits. The team will develop a physical, online and audio fairy tale where the Mission Parker story will be told. And with this project, sew the science interest seed in the mind of the younger. This project is for any children that have any way to learn, including those who are benefit from the kinesthetic, auditive and visual methods, it will encourage them to develop all their abilities in the best way and be more competent.

Link to Final Project

https://roberto24flores.wixsite.com/semilla-force

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFN5h1TwUI/R2k1kNZ_7G5yF0WK2J6LTQ/view?utm_content=DAFN5h1TwUI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Detailed Project Description

ON THE WAY OF THE SUN is a project that has the porpouse of designing a picture book for children, get the interest of the younger about science and tecnology topics. We want to focus in all the learning methods so any children will understand and enjoy it, because we know the children are the next generation, if we show them how interesting the science could be, maybe they will have big goals in the science ambit, so we added an audiobook and a website where you can find the online book, then you could read the story whenever you want. Also we added augmented reality to our book too, this with the porpouse of having a different and innovative experience that you could remeber easily.

We worked in different softwares, audacity for the audiobook, Adobe Ilustrator to make the book images and all the ilustrations and finally we used Artivive for the augmented reality.

Space Agency Data

For the realization of our project, we conducted a research in the sources provided by NASA, but being very technical data we decided to adapt them so that children could give them a better understanding.


From which, we collected the most accurate data regarding the mission of the Parker probe, taking into account that the project is aimed at a child audience, so all the information obtained was simplified and exemplified for a better understanding of the target audience.

As previously mentioned in the high level summary, this project was chosen because we want to share science and technology through different means that allow learning in a creative and fun way, our inspiration was the story of the Parker solar probe since it is a feat that we thought was impossible

Hackathon Journey

Our experience in this hackathon was full of many emotions from the beginning, since, during the entire development of the project we lived a special and remarkable experience, this because our team was joined by Wendy, a 7 year old participant who helped us to give a better approach to the development of our story as she spoke to us from her point of view showing what someone her age would really be interested in and what not.

The experience was interesting, we learned more about teamwork and about ourselves, with differences of opinion and exposed to stressful situations, it took us out of our comfort zone and tested us in pressure situations, but as a good team we managed to get our work done thanks to our great teamwork, regardless of the stressful situations the fun was not lacking, because although we had problems with the project, we always sought to see the positive and fun side of each situation to cope with the time we would spend together.

References

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TOOLS

  • Artivive
  • Adobe Ilustrator
  • Audacity

Tags

#SUN #SCIENCE #STORY #KIDS

On the Way to the Sun

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. Your challenge is to develop a creative way to tell young audiences the inspiring story of Parker’s record-breaking journey from Earth to the Sun and all the perils it overcame on the way.