Cosmos

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZqXRFKk3EGXUBwJCZOfulhktoMTGYcsb?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1Is5NCZ6E-lLbIhL90L97m5cW9F-lfXSP

How does it work?

In the COS:MOS : The board game, 3-5 players will choose to represent an astronaut. Each astronaut will only gain superpowers when they combine their DNA with the organisms in the game. Players will take turn rolling the dice and move their character forward accordingly to the number of spaces shown on the dice. Players will take turn taking various types of cards based on the box they land on. Some of the cards might be challenges or benefits ; it could also be a tricky card to sabotage another player and make them lose! Players will face challenges to reach to the end - plane MARS, which signifies they have completed their missions. As they go farther, the fewer COS:MOS tokens will they get. 

How do you win?

By rolling the dice and going through different challenges to reach the end of the game. 

What benefits does it have?

We hope through playing COS:MOS, players can acknowledge how to handle challenges when

traveling in space. By inserting space science related information to board game, we believe

players will get more interested in learning space science. The board and cards are made with

beautiful designs which can attract a child's attention to play the game. The cards include words

that aren’t difficult for students to understand. Most of the students get bored by seeing articles

or books that are filled with lots of jargon, but with a board game, students will be more likely to

participate in learning space science. We believe it can widen their knowledge and ignite their

passion into studying space science. Our cards are written with how organisms deal with space travel stresses and facts about astronauts. Moreover, players will also learn resource management, soft skills in trading and collaboration.

What do you hope to achieve?

1. We hope to inspire students to choose space science related careers and help to develop country in the future.

2. We hope students can acknowledge how diverse organisms deal with stresses on space.

3. We believe this board game can encourage students to learn more about space science.

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

Our inspirations come from different physical games such as Monopoly, Munchkin and Snake and Ladders. We’re grateful for their inspiration. We have been using Canva to design our cards and Teleprompter to edit our video.

List of data used and its reference can be viewed here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sUMW48LbrZ4bhmTO56mHo3yDZ6x_VDxBp7Kj-bpdowQ/edit

Open source data has been really helpful for us as our project depend heavily on how biological systems respond, acclimate and adapt to the space environment and missions in order to create a board game aligned with facts and syllabuses by our ministry of education. 

Experience and inspiration: As a student, we barely heard anyone saying “Oh, I want to be a astronaut when I grow up!”. So, we really want to inspire people around us to get interest in space science. We took this opportunity to let people know more about space science, so we chose the challenge “BUILD A SPACE BIOLOGY SUPERHERO”, which is designing a platform to let people understand more on how organisms deal with these stresses of space travel. My and my teammates were confused initially on what kind of platform should we design. Through discussing our ideas, we have decided to create a board game. We think that a board game is a fun and interesting way for anyone to acknowledge space science. We are thankful for having teammates that are cooperative and understanding, it makes the project seems way more easier to finish. 

New knowledge learnt: Through out this journey we learn that there are always solution for a problem. Knowledge is beyond infinity. We have learn what kind of challenges or problems organisms will face when travelling in space and how they handle it. 

Project ideation and development: We were inspired with board game and card game because it seems way more interesting and easier for people such as students to approach. We think it’s important for us to design the board and cards appearance in order to keep people interested in playing this board game. For development, my teammates and I chose to design a board game. After we decided what to do and made sure what’s our objective, we started to do research on how organisms deal with these stresses on space travel. We also worked together to make the rules and gameplay;it was chaotic and fun. To ensure players are clear on the science, we wrote the important contents on the cards and let the players to read for themselves. Our last task to do was making the pitch and filming a video to introduce the game. 

Setback and challenges: We were struggling to decide which game should we design because we don’t have much experience on playing card game or board game. We all tried our best designing the board and card. We almost thought we couldn’t finish our project because we were clueless and not knowing what to do. Thankfully we have finished !

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sUMW48LbrZ4bhmTO56mHo3yDZ6x_VDxBp7Kj-bpdowQ/edit

Slides, Design and Video Editing Tools:

1. Canva

2. Teleprompter

Web Hosting Tools:

1. Google drive

2. Google Docs 

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