High-Level Project Summary
We have tried to develop a way to get the younger audience to learn about the journey of parker solar probe using a scenario they could read, watch or play themselves. We believe that storytelling can reach a wider espeicially younger audience, as a scenario can be consumed in multiple ways that could pick children's interests. We believe this is important to get children more involved in science, especially for those who don't have a special interest. presented as a story and/or play, we hope that it will also encourage the younger audience to learn more about parkers story; wonder, ask questions and search for answers, as we believe these are fundamentals to science.
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Detailed Project Description
Our project is a scenario, primarily written as a stage play/musical to be played by kids themselves or to be watched, but it could be read as it is, or made into an animation. This gives a chance for it to get to a wider audience and presents various options to present it to children. It aims to teach childrean about parkers journey and show how significant of an achievement it is to touch the sun. We hope to reach out to all kids whether they have particual interest or not, to introduce them a new concept trough storytelling.
We wish that, especially the part that tells about the structure of the probe and how it travels the distance could be told with assistance of music. We couldn't fully plan it but it's an idea that could be taken into account.
We have firstly talked briefly about Eugene Parker who gave the solar probe it's name. Then we wrote two scientists who aim to learn more about the star and lastly depicted the parker solar probe as a curious machine that wants to explore our star. We wanted our audience to be able to relate to the scientists who are trying to overcome difficulties they face and the solar probe who yearns to learn, asks questions and finds answers trough it's journey to the sun. We belive this is important, as science may come as difficult to children, and we aim to show them it isn't as distant as it seems to be. We hope it can show how science is asking questions and looking for answers at it's basics and not just made up of numbers they can't understand yet. We hope that parker's story will be more memorable for children and perhaps they'll look at science in a different perspective while growing up
Space Agency Data
We have read articles about Parker space probe as well as watching youtube videos of NASA to collect neccessary information.
We tried to learn from the sources and used the information we gained to try and convey the importance and the journey of the probe.
Hackathon Journey
We initaially wanted to tackle the biology superhero challenge, then our team members decided on turning stem into steam. We couldn't keep contack with our team members and had to change our challenge at the last minute. Even though we weren't present face-to-face, we worked for hours together and came up with a product. I have learned that we should form a better team next time and wish to be present in a hackaton.
References
We have read the articles about Parker space probe and Eugene Parker as well as watching the youtube videos of NASA to collect neccessary information.
We also read the information provided by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab's website, mostly of the journey after the launch and scientific objectives.
We used information from Chicago universitie's website alongside NASA's, about eugene parker and solar winds
As our audience is younger, we could not go overly scientific, but tried compile the parts we thought were important to present.
Tags
#ParkerSolarProbe #art