High-Level Project Summary
We chose the Build your space biology superhero challenge as we liked to let people understand how astronauts work hard for the development of our planet. Our goal is to provide an easy and simple way for people of various backgrounds to understand the health risks falling upon the astronauts. Enter ‘Spacetopia’ an imaginary town 100% our creation, this is the town that managed to overcome all health risks happening in space our project will actually be of two parts a website and a mobile application each of them presents 8 health risks which the astronauts face with a video featuring a Spacetopian describing the problem and its solution that comes with a quick bonus quiz between the videos
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Detailed Project Description
Our project will actually be consisting of two parts discussing the same challenge with a nearing design, both will start with a home page containing The title of our project ‘Spacetopia’ at the center with two buttons the first will open to a wall full of icons for the profiles of some of the spacetopians (the residents of our imaginary town), each profile containing a little insight to the character’s personal life and a video featuring the character in question explaining the space risk mentioned on his profile and how did the spacetopians managed to reduce or eliminate this risk. Our app and website come with a special surprise, after each three videos a quick quiz in the form of a little game will come up to test the knowledge of our users in a fun and exciting way. It will also allow people to build a space biology superhero that fills bit by bit after each video till it’s completely full in the last video indicating the full achievement of the project. Now when you click on the second button the list of the risks that we hadn’t yet included in our videos will appear, we do hope that once given the opportunity and the time we will be able to do them as well. When we first started working on this challenge we had so little knowledge about what really happens out there but now we have gained a lot of information that had completely changed our minds about the whole process and for that we consider ourselves truly lucky so we plan to do the same for our viewers by providing this information in an easy way that can increase awareness about the biological risks of space. For the making and the montaging of the videos we used VideoScribe and Adobe Permiere. The coding languages used for the making of our website are HTML,CSS, JAVAsCRIPT, whereas the coding languages used in the making of our application are Kotlin and XML.
Space Agency Data
Space agencies across the world and their researches in different fields concerning the lives of different astronauts are definitely astounding. Without them or their researches mankind would’ve lost hope for a better future years ago. In our researches we used the data collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). We found that their data completely fulfilled our needs in the points we want to present in our solution. We first started by the resources found beneath the challenge page on NASA SPACE APPS web sites then we branched off using many articles and websites under NASA’s name.
Hackathon Journey
Our space apps journey had been wonderful, our team actually thrives on being challenged and being here and being able to participate means everything to each and every one of us. Space apps have provided us with the opportunity to learn new information about what’s really out there and for that we’re incredibly grateful. When the chance presented itself to us we were at it trying to create something for ourselves, we’re all fascinated by the internal biology of organisms and we consider it a secret not yet fully understood so when we saw the ‘build your space biology superhero’ we were intrigued to read upon the matter and when we did that, it was decided what challenge will we attempt and solve this year. Once that was decided, it was time to begin working. We had online meetings and we were set off with a plan; first we read about the challenge as a whole to understand what’s really about, then we started dividing the health tasks among us for deepening and understanding the challenge ahead with a clear way. Of course just as any team working together we had setbacks and challenges but we didn’t let them get the best of us, we held meetings and tried to think rationally and so we always end up on the wining side. We’d like to thank NASA for providing a challenge as this one and giving young people like ourselves a chance to bring out our creative side and try to make the world a better place.
References
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Tags
#biology #superhero #space #AstroSupe #WebSite #App #Kotlin #Html #software