High-Level Project Summary
Our project comprises an innovative book with lovely illustrations to attract kids and a QR code that links to our website, a blogger page, and two video animations. The book was initially created with its ideal designs; next, video animations were made to illustrate Parker's Journey because children under the age of 12 are said to remember the visuals, and a website was made to make it easy for people to find the book; finally, a blogger page was created to allow people to interact with the team and express their opinions. Our idea met the objective because it offers numerous strategies for teaching kids about Parker's Journey and encourages them to use their imaginations.
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Detailed Project Description
The project illustrates Parker Solar Probe’s Journey in creative ways for children and interested people. The project consists of a book with a QR code, the book consists of two chapters, the first chapter talks about the solar probe with its perfect design and how it overcomes the challenges that face it. The second one talks about the achievements that were done each year by the solar probe. The QR code contains two video animations that help children to imagine the actions of the journey, it also contains our website link that contains the information that was collected about the journey to help a lot of people to reach this information, and it contains a blog page that will help people to interact with us and show their point of view, and if anyone needs explanation about the journey we can help him/her, and also if anyone has more information he/she can add it to our project. Also the project helps the children to take care of their interests as the project is useful and full of information that will add to them and open their minds on the journeys that NASA sends to space and they will be more interested to know more about the sun's mysteries. We hope the greatest number of people know about the book and get true benefits from it, also we hope our website be trusted by NASA and other space agencies. A lot of tools were used like Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, and a printer. Coding languages such as: CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.
Space Agency Data
We used in this project resources from NASA's website. first, the arrangement of information about Parker's journey on NASA's website was complex for young people to understand that there were many articles containing repeated information. the written information in that difficult way inspired us to arrange this information in a simple and creative way. We used the space agency in gathering all the information needed to make the book. We confirmed the way that the book will be written in it. The summarization of the information was done. Some of the information was:
- Parker Solar probe's design and its four science instruments and how each one of them works.
- The circumstances that the probe faced and how it overcame them.
- The discoveries made by the probe such as the NEOWISE comet, information about the solar wind, the corona, and the magnetic field in space.
- About Venus.
- The achievements made by the probe every year.
Hackathon Journey
I'd like to describe our journey by the word "space", it seems mysterious until humans have a specific goal so he prepared steps to achieve this goal. Our journey was exotic until we set a goal which is facilitating the story of the Parker Solar Probe to young people and then arranging it to appear in the best performance to as many people as we can. Our experience in this competition was unique. We learnt many skills and it was different from the way of communicating with each other - as each member is from a different country- until the big hit of our challenge as we linked all the ways of education in one way by scanning a code. We learnt how to use online sources to communicate with each other, we learnt how to write in a way that suits the children's minds and makes them interested in reading the book, website, or even blog. We learnt Photoshop and how to make a professional design in a book. We learnt how to make animation. We learnt how to use trusted websites to make any organized source that can benefit many people. For inspiration, all of us are interested in astronomy field from childhood. We find that there is a big shortage in finding a book that suits the young people that they can understand easily but unfortunately it was a mammoth task for us and our parents, so we find this challenge as a chance to help young people and make them more interested in Astronomy. The first step in developing this project is printing the book and making the animation. The team has had many setbacks. the smallest one was how to deal with each other cause of our different minds and opinions and the largest issue was that the team wasn’t professional in graphic design and it was hard for learning it in a short period. We had a great thankful for NASA for the information and the data that they had.
References
[1] NASA."NEWS ARCHIVE." parker solar probe.http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/index.php#News-Archive.[9/10,2022]
[2]NASA." Amazing Achievements From Parker Solar Probe." parker solar probe.https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2022/04/29/amazing-achievements-from-parker-solar-probe/#:~:text=In%20December%202021%2C%20NASA%20announced,the%20atmosphere%20of%20a%20star[ 15/9,2022]
Tags
#Visuals, #Art, #kids