Insha

Dnipro | Learning Through the Looking Glass

Galaxy game

High-Level Project Summary

My project will show people the difference between space telescopes and develop not only adults but also children's curiosity about space. To achieve such a goal I developed a game that has several buttons with different windows. The first window gives theoretical knowledge about space telescopes and examples of their photo works. The second window has a quiz that helps to check players' knowledge. The last window includes a little game with three levels. It was made in such a way to encourage playing this game with people with different backgrounds and amounts of knowledge.

Link to Final Project

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/739497008

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14AIDlw88W_1N0R1lcpwJWxBS2LZOSgVl/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

My program develops knowledge of telescopes through the game. The user just needs to choose one action of the three provided buttons. After the user completes one section, he will be automatically sent to another type of activity.

The main menu has three buttons:

Theoretical knowledge: it contains primary information about different telescopes and their photo examples
Quiz: to check readers' attention
Puzzle game: to have some fun

I hope that my project will help to give more knowledge about space to people that are not experienced in it at all.

I used Scratch and Canva to develop my project.

Space Agency Data

During my project, I mostly used open data on NASA websites. It helped me to visualize the difference between space telescopes and provide essential information about telescopes' characteristics. Also, I used data from Canadian Space Agency to get more photos of the Webb telescope of higher quality.

Hackathon Journey

I worked alone because now I am abroad and online I couldn’t find people to join my team. This hackathon taught me that to get a better result it’s better to work with someone. It’s difficult to manage all processes and do everything alone. Even though I was inspired to take this challenge because I like games and want even with primary skills implement the idea of learning through play. I hope that such a new aptitude for the learning process is very beneficial as in the modern area people spend a lot of time on gadgets. When this game can give some interesting knowledge and develop curiosity even in very small children.

I would like to thank NASA for open data information, as it was very helpful during the process of solving this challenge.