SPACE AGE

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Our project is a tutoring application that seeks to provide young thinkers an opportunity to fly to the sun while they are on land! We have designed the application to be complicated in a way that activates different aspects of thinking for young users. This complication is achieved via three different main tutoring ways. The first way is the animated videos, here we aim at achieving a perfect visualization contact with the young user about the topic. Within the video, we have bloomed the most important notes to terminate the young to those important notes. Secondly, we have attached flashcards, including the main points of the narrated story, underneath the video. Adding the flashcards, we tried not to erase the importance of reading, and at the same time, we didn’t want to make it boring for the young to read lengthy essays about complex astronomical topics that can be facilitated in a way that makes those topics more beneficial for them, young thinkers. Thirdly, we have attached a simple true/false quiz after each narrated story to refresh young’s minds without depressing them with detailed questions.

     Within the application, there will be a profile for the user that keeps up with him/her his/her progress on an interactive scale that increases while the user progresses within the application.

     Finally, and at the end of all the applications’ stories and quizzes, there will be a certificate that will be sent to the user as a means of motivation for him/her to continue learning more from the Space Age series of tutoring applications.

What exactly does it do?

     It delivers to the young the story of Parker’s solar probe, its fascinating design that best suits the harsh conditions where it was immersed, and the challenges that faced the probe. We, additionally, added a handcrafting video for the young to make them able to construct their probe and ___ it with them through their journey of learning about the Probe and its discoveries. We also provide learned lessons at the end of each story in an abbreviated manner that makes young not only learn scientific topics but also lessons for their lifelong journey in discovering the world. 

How does it work?

On tapping on the application icon, our logo will pop up and then the journey starts by tapping on the (launch button) that is found in the lower part of the screen. In addition, there will be a text field for the user to insert his/her name to welcome him/her in our special way. After this, our main screen will appear which includes the list of chapters. Each of these chapters hinders behind it a narrated story, flashcards of collective information, and a button for the quiz coming after finishing the story. It is quite easy for the user to surf our application and learn more about the sun, the probe, and Venus-related discoveries, as he/she will require only to set his/her name at the very beginning, and then he/she will be immersed in a facilitated zone of interactivity, information conduction, and adrenalin shoots that all make his/her journey fancier with a bloom of benefits. 

What benefits does it have?

     What differentiates our application from the other same-field ones is its ease of being used. In addition, our application serves more learning options including animations for cartoon-like show lovers, written brief notes in the form of flashcards, and finally, refreshing quizzes that enable the user to test the knowledge he/she gained during his/her Space Age journey. In addition to all of these features, the application is characterized by the means of the simplicity of the features included and the designs that were chosen based on correcting previous same-field mistakes.

What do you hope to achieve?

We hope to introduce to the young a unique experience that immerses them in an exciting way to the sun discoveries, Parker probe’s challenges, and Venus-related discoveries that were revealed via Parker solar probe’s flybys. We hope to widen our niche (Zone of speciation) to include more space missions that can reveal beneficial lessons for the young if introduced well. 

What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?

The used programming language was dart made by Google, which provides the code with a debugging ability on several operating systems. This is allowed by the use of flutter which is an open-source UI software kit able to develop dart codes on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and many other platforms.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries 

This resource provides us with specific details about the switchbacks in the solar wind and their zigzag structure. The history of discovery of the zigzag structure of the solar wind. For example, the first discovery of this structure was observed from earth, as the solar wind reaches Earth in a hair-like shape. Also, the assumptions of the scientists about this phenomenon. For example, the most accepted assumption is that the solar wind glows like a balloon creating turbulence. 

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/traveling-to-the-sun-why-won-t-parker-solar-probe-melt 

This resource provides us with details about the solar shield and the materials used in construction which is carbon, carbon composite, and white ceramic to reflect the light falling on it. Also, it provides information about the cooling system and how it would keep the temperature of the probe at only 27 by using deionized water like the cooling system in the car.

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

This resource provides us with details about the discovery of the dust-free zone by Parker. An interment called FIELDS measures the magnetic and electric field of the sun. At the distance near the sun, the temperature is very high. The dust changed into plasma that produces duce unique magnetic and electric fields. Measuring electric and magnetic fields would be good. 

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

This website offers valuable information about the sun for kids. In our app, our target audiences are kids, so it helped us in writing the content in our app, some basic facts about the sun such as its nature, its position in the solar system, and its contribution to life on Earth. 

Our space apps experience was good, but the Hackathon has shifted it, helping each member rise his skills and achievements. We have learned a lot. We enhanced our teamwork skills; each member could finish his tasks in time. Also, we have practiced more technical concepts, like some new functions and methods in dart. Through working on code, some challenges appeared. One of them was to use the XD-to-Flutter plugin, to implement the UI as it needed tremendous modifications to initialize proper working functions. We experienced this challenge in importance since we were children and were not aware of these astronomical concepts. In addition, we believed that we will do our bests in this specific challenge. We tried to solve this challenge using mobile application development to help children discover the sun with Parker’s Probe. Our team has set all challenges like the time crisis with time management and teamworking. Finally, thanks to God that designing the solution and the project of the challenge have been finished successfully. We would also like to express special thanks of

gratitude to our great mentors who tried their best to help us. We also have to thank NASA Space Apps for this great chance to enhance our skills and abilities in space apps.

During the process of us creating our application, we have relied on many software services and applications. Also, we relied on some references and websites with the aim of having trusted content.

For the software services:

·       Adobe XD

·       Wonder share filmora

·       Video scribe

·       Adobe Photoshop

·       Audacity

·       Flutter

·       Dart

·       VS code.

·       Android studio.

For the trusted references of the content

·       https://www.uaf.edu/museum/

·       https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.CNRS.SolAR

·       http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/

·       https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/

·       https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/

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