Big Bangers

Ismailia | Turning STEM into STEAM

Big Bang Play

High-Level Project Summary

Our challenge is to facilitate a scientific research from Nasa's website, or any trust research paper by using art in a way that turns STEM into STEAM. The topic of the research papers that we have chosen is The Big Bang Theory. We chose to express our topic by a play. Our play can be understood by most ages. That will make the big bang theory understandable by most people.

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--DL2ctJqk63XtwtcWN9N00hhg_i7vo7?usp=sharing

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LqDPA3S5TtlJC5jAS2F8JQwA7bds1fSE?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

Our challenge is to develop a creative method that uses the arts to share and explain the design, process, and/or scientific results from a NASA or partner space agency research project to your audience, develop an approach that combines science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math (STEAM).

So, first, we started searching for a topic that can be both interesting and important to know about, and we got an idea from a famous American series called the big bang theory, and the idea was to talk more about the big bang as most of us has definitely studied it before, but surely not with all the details. So, we don't we share more information about an important event like this and let people know the truth about it all! Therefore, we decided to make our project about the big bang theory and this important era.

After that, we moved to the second part of our challenge which is, how can we turn STEM into STEAM? And how to add Arts into this specific topic? So, we continued our research by a key word that says "Science as arts" to take some ideas about how to share our project in a simple way that can interest people to know more and more about the big bang theory, and also be an entertaining content for them. And we finally got an amazing idea, a play.

Our play will start with a group of friends that decided to do a movie night at their friend's house, and while they were preparing their themselves for the movie, they decided to make some popcorn to entertain them. During the popcorn preparation, one of the girls noted that that the popcorn reminds her of the science lesson they took at school, which is the big bang theory. Meanwhile, the girls started talking more about that topic and that the popcorn was as small as the universe at first but by time it got bigger and bigger due to the Big Bang, that is equivalent to the popcorn preparation in their situation.

After talking about this theory, their friend told them about the big bang theory series and they decided that they will watch it and know more about that topic.

Space Agency Data

1- NASA. (n.d.). The big bang. NASA. Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-powered-the-big-bang

2- National Schools' Observatory. Evidence for the Big Bang | National Schools' Observatory. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://www.schoolsobservatory.org/learn/astro/cosmos/bigbang/bb_evid

3- Dynamical constraints on the dark matter distribution in ... - iopscience. (n.d.). Retrieved September 30, 2022, from https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/12/001

4- The early universe. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://pages.uoregon.edu/jimbrau/astr123/Notes/Chapter27.html

5- Gary, D. E. (n.d.). Astronomy lecture number 26. Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://web.njit.edu/~gary/202/Lecture26.html

Hackathon Journey

In our opinion, the space app was really a great experience for us and we for sure would like to participate in it again. We learned how to make a play or a small sketch to share our ideas in it, and how can we make it as easy as possible while explaining the big bang theory. We got the play idea from an event that we have attended, where they were making a small sketch every time to teach us new information in a different way. We connected an important topic to something that most of us like and enjoy which is the popcorn, and that was to make it easier for the children too, not just for adult people. We trained well to avoid any mistakes or drawbacks.

We would like to ask the organizers and the mentors that helped us during the two days of the hackathon.