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Space Memory Game for kids

High-Level Project Summary

Everybody knows that the future of our World are the children.We thought one of the best ways is to become the Space familiar to the children in very begin.Analyzing Brazil situation, we have almost 140,000 schools, of which just over 30,000 do not have any public access to the Internet.We decided to public the beautiful images of James Webb telescope in an uncomplicated way for little children. We also compare with other telescope images.Memory game was chosen for low cost and, mainly, for the easy way to achieve the children.Our ideal is: if the children are encouraged for understand the Space, we will have more astronauts and space engineers in future. The Space are waiting for us!

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oZVHv3szr-qdvsK2o3GVntpdTL3a_U64?usp=sharing

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/66XWj3ycYCA

Detailed Project Description

We designed a Space Memory Game for little children for encouraging them to understand how to explore the Space.

The game has 12 cards measuring 5 cm x 9 cm. On the cards we have images got by James Webb telescope and, also, got by Hubble and Spitzer telescope. It is possible to compare the evolution of the telescopes during the years.

Goal of the game: sharing images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful and complex space science telescope ever built, with the same images got by Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, -

Description: It is a game that develops memory, attention, location, concentration, observation, interactivity and Space knowledge skills.

Recommended age: six to ten years old.

Participants: two players or more.

Challenges:

1- Best of Three: to decide who is the winner, it will be necessary to play the memory game three times. The winner must at least win two games.

2-Play as a Team: in this version, form teams of up to three players to compete. In addition to being more fun and funnier, they can be more agile More heads think better.

3- Making a Challenge: set a prize for the winner, or the winner can ask the losers for a funny challenge, for example, simulating running away from the black hole, imitating the movement of the telescope in space.

This project was made using only Microsoft Package (Word, PowerPoint and Excel).

Space Agency Data

We used NASA links. The images and explanations were got from these links:

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/multimedia/images.html

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-spitzer-space-telescope-ends-mission-of-astronomical-discovery

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/comparisonWebbVsHubble.html

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html

Hackathon Journey

Our Space Apps experience was groundbreaking. We learned to look outside the Earth.

We contemplate our Universe, through the images of telescopes, especially James Webb. It inspired us to choose this challenge, and we thought about the impact children would have seeing the images. That they would be curious about space when looking at the space telescope images.

The approach was to develop, in a fun way, learning by playing. And the most important thing would stimulate interest in the Universe and its mysteries.

We work as a team to face the challenges we had, as we are more agile and efficient helping each other!

We would like to thank Marco Linhares for helping us and also UNICAMP.

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