High-Level Project Summary
We, a team of six members portrayed the Journey of Parker Solar Probe through a Puppet show. The show involves a conversation between Parker Solar Probe and Galileo, the spacecraft that went to Jupiter. During the conversation, Parker reminisces his journey to the sun and tells about the hardships that he had to face and his discoveries. he also expresses his love and admiration for all the scientists behind his creation. Through this puppet show we wanted to sow the seed of curiosity in younger audience and those who don't have much knowledge about the space science. we wanted to relay the importance of this achievement in hopes that the seed will eventually grow into a tree of innovation.
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Detailed Project Description
Our video is about us giving character to the spacecrafts through which they show human-like emotions and characteristics signified when the Parker solar probe recalls his past memories, achievements, discoveries and mainly the journey. While Parker converses with Galileo , it is a creative way of storytelling the spacecrafts journey to the Sun through the use of puppets since it is an engaging way to keep the attention of especially the younger audience that cannot understand many educational videos due to the use of difficult words and visuals. Puppets are fun and comedic for children, however, if we include topics like space science, it would be merrier. Fantastic visuals through images and videos of space with simplified explanation of the Parker solar probe's journey to the sun can generate even more curiosity and interest in our young generation which is our purpose. Purpose is to grow curiosity and thirst for knowledge in people from a young age.
Nowadays, we see people distracted with their phones 24/7 , even a 3-year old knows about to fully operate one. Main stream media gives way for children as young as 3 to watch content that is of no use neither knowledge. Rather than creators producing content of no benefit, it can be pitched that they can make simplified and fun explanation of educational topics which ,we are sure won't bore even a 60 year old.
We used the Wondershare Filmora 11 editing software to edit our video, some hands, some socks and a green screen to portray our story.
Space Agency Data
The prime space agency data we used is of the official NASA website and the resource sites provided for participants on the NASA space app challenge website on the resource tab which proved to be easy and sufficient for us helping to make out our script and personally helped make us aware of the uncountable milestone the scientists and people have achieved or are already working on.
Hackathon Journey
The Space app challenge has been a once in a while experience, no doubt, we believe we would participate again . We learned about team work, coordination, space, how to think critically and skillfully in time constraints. Due to less time to develop our project, we thought of the least time consuming concept for our project that can still make people aware of this amazing spacecraft and its developments.
No doubt, our team had many setbacks and mind blocks as we could not think of any efficient way to tell our story due to less time but , we're proud we did our best and made a project we are happy about.
We'd like to thank our team leader that kept up our motivation and morale when we thought it wasn't possible to do anything, and also thank NASA for bringing this event to our region paving way for whole new opportunities and ideas which we are sure will bring our to generation to INFINITY AND BEYOND!
References
2021.spaceappschallenge.org
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasas-parker-solar-probe-sheds-new-light-on-the-sun
parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu
news.uchicago.edu
www.nytimes.com
https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/05/31/parker-solar-probe-halfway-finished-mission/#:~:text=The%20Wide%2DField%20Imager%20for,to%20sublimate%20and%20thus%20disappear
www.yourclassical.org
www.youtube.com
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2022-05-amazing-parker-solar-probe.amp
https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/#:~:text=As%20it%20orbits%20the%20Sun,and%20high%2Dspeed%20particles%20escaping
https://www.space.com/space-weather
https://youtu.be/ebaNvikCvDM
https://youtu.be/ReQAUocScw0
www.nasa.gov
Tags
#sun #parkersolarprobe #onthewaytothesun #parkersolarprobesjourney #puppets #storyofparker #storytelling #nasaonthewaytothesun #eugeneparker #nasaparkersolarprobe