High-Level Project Summary
We have developed a Choose Your Own Adventure style presentation to develop our Space Biology Superhero. With the use of realistic techniques and considerations of an astronaut, we have used these qualities to let players create an organism of their own which can successfully counter these traits and let them understand the stresses of space flight.It solves the challenge when players are successful; that means they understand the basic concepts of the stresses in space flight and are rewarded with an organism which can defeat those concepts.Our project is important because it helps the common folk obtain a deeper understanding and a better perspective of the stresses of space flight.
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Detailed Project Description
Our project Now Possible, is designed to give players the challenge and chance to immerse themselves in a world where they can create their own perfect astronaut or what we call a biological superhero.
We have chosen to create a Choose Your Own Adventure style PowerPoint presentation as our final product in presenting our information. We will then create a 30-second walkthrough to talk about the PowerPoint, as we think players can get a quick overview before playing the game itself.
A Choose Your Own Adventure presentation is an interactive presentation that lets players choose their path to victory. In this case, completing our Choose Your Own Adventure presentation aims to create the best possible organism that will survive everything deep space throws at them.
That can be the lack or loss of gravity, the circadian sleeping cycles, the limited supplies we give astronauts, their access to health or medical care and their exposure to radiation. These are the factors that we have taken into account when creating our organism.
Our goal is to let players understand the stresses, problems and hardships the astronauts face during space flight and how intensive their training is just to let them adapt to the conditions in deep space and if they are successful, they will be able to create an organism with the characteristics mentioned below.
The purpose of our successful organism is to be able to harvest the perchlorates on the soil to make Mars more habitable. Harvesting the perchlorates will make the Mars terrain suitable soil for growing plants and it will contribute to the oxygen content on Mars.
It won't be much, but any small difference is a step in the right direction.
We have used the software PowerPoint from Microsoft and many websites from Google to create our final product and obtain all our content.
Space Agency Data
We have used data from NASA about the hazards of space travel in,
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/5-hazards-of-human-spaceflight
The Space Biology Program in,
https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/space-biology
more detail about the risks in,
https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/risks/
and the perchlorates at,
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ocs/workshops/pom
Hackathon Journey
Our Space Apps experience is probably one to remember, and we have learned lots of things on a variety of topics about space flight. Our team decided to choose this challenge because we were all experienced in creating games and are all fans of superheroes and found that this challenge should be interesting. Our approach to developing this project was simple:
- Assign roles to each of our group members
- Research relevant results using reliable and trustworthy sources
- Plan the format of our final product
- Compile the research into our final product
- Summarise our research into the submission point
Our team resolved some setbacks and challenges such as distractions by assigning a leader and letting them take leadership.
We would like to thank our Science teacher, Mr Alex Discombe, for bringing us to this fantastic event, helping us on our final product and talking to many mentors for assistance.
References
Bibliography
- https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NP-2015-03-015-JSC_Space_Environment-ISS-Mini-Book-2015-508.pdf
- https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/5-hazards-of-human-spaceflight
- https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/space-biology
- https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/risks/
- https://www.sleepfoundation.org/circadian-rhythm
- https://byjus.com/biology/archaebacteria/
- https://onlyzoology.com/how-do-animals-survive-in-the-desert-without-water/
- https://lifeoffish.com/how-do-deep-sea-creatures-survive-a-mystery-reveled/
- https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/stem-in-context/radiation-and-human-space-exploration
- https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/health
- https://fillingstationyouthcenter.org/2749-how-will-we-get-water-on-mars.htm
- https://perchlorateinformationbureau.org/content/what-perchlorate
- https://www.rdworldonline.com/breakthrough-reached-using-3d-dna-crystals/
- https://emfadvice.com/examples-electromagnetic-radiation-everyday-life/
- https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/2022-challenges/space-biology-superhero/details
- http://thetartan.org/2012/9/24/scitech/researcher-speak
- https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/948917/view
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#creatures #tardigrades #game #presentation #chooseyourownadventure