Mission to Mars

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/739862658/fullscreen

https://youtu.be/Khd655LHYM8

Our project for this challenges titled Learning Quiz of James Webb Space Telescope where it is comprises of quiz game, simulation game and end credits. As for quiz game, there are a set of 5 quiz questions that needed to be answered to finish the game. To answer them, the player need to try the rough idea of lenses of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which is a part of simulation game and try to detect and click each of the galaxies where they will tell you some information regarding James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Below are some example images from our game.

1) MAIN MENU

Here, you can see the title of the game and different buttons for player to click such as START QUIZ, TRY TELESCOPE and END CREDITS.

2) START QUIZ

The quiz is made up of different questions that needed to be answered. Here you will see a conversation among the Sun, the Earth and the Stars. The Earth will tell you a question and you need to answer them by typing your answer. If you given the wrong answer, the Earth will encourage you to be better and gives out the true answer. If you given the right answer. The Earth will congratulate you or give some word of encouragement to lift up your spirits. When finish answering all the answers, the Sun, the Earth, and the Stars will congratulate you and say goodbye and then end credit rolls or make you back to the main menu.

3) TRY TELESCOPE

This is a form of simulation that might be conducted when a researcher or perhaps an astronaut try to use the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Here, the player can hover and try to click/detect 5 different galaxies where each of the galaxies will gives out some knowledge that can be useful when you try the quiz game. Using the mouse, player need to listen what the Earth is saying and follow the instructions given above. Click each of the galaxies to gain any knowledge about JWST.

4) END CREDIT

The end credit is important to tell people who made the game and also as some sort of appreciation to the members that have did their part in creating this game. This will include the name of each members, the resources use and most importantly a simple word of gratitude and appreciation to thank the player that have played the game like THANKS FOR PLAYING. A simple word but brings a lot of meaningful interaction to the player.

By walking through the game, player will gain knowledge regarding the James Webb Space Telescope which include what instrument does it use to detect and capture images of distant star and galaxies, what form does it have to enable the instrument and other form of structure that the telescope has. Player achieving this knowledge although it is short and simple was our main goal which is parallel with the our hope of making people getting to know James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Therefore, by them playing the game, we have succeeded achieving what we wanted.

The game is made up entirely using Scratch since it is a more beginner friendly coding environment and suitable to be use by each members since the members does not have any knowledge in coding in any language.

Our team had used the, space agency data of the James Webb Space Telescope (nasa.gov). As in this space agency data, it been inspired us much in knowing the Mid-Infrared Instruments (MIRI) and also together with the 4 observation modes. The space agency data here been used by creating the questions in the quiz to ask the user about the full term of the MIRI and also the number of the observation modes. Besides, the first image captured by the JWST also been asked so that the user aware that the planet Mars was the first image been captured.

Then, the FITS Image Viewer Page (nasa.gov) data used. In this specific space agency data where the type of the FITS Image Viewer been inspired us to test the user whether they will know the type of it.

Finally, WebbPSF (stsci.edu) was used as one of the space agency data. In this data, the programming language known as the Python was used in order to obtain the WebbSPF. It much inspired us to ask the user the type of the programming language used there which it would be much important to know by user for the use in the future.

Our Space Apps Hackathon experience was fruitful and rewarding! We joined virtual workshops to learn new skills and gain knowledge. Here's a few example of workshops that our team member had joined, Eg. Building game prototype workshop using Scratch (where our game is heavily built on), Story-telling workshop, the first-ever Physical Game Jam in Kuching and many more, we've gained so much from these workshops and the best thing is, it is FREE!

For our challenge, what inspired our team to choose 'Learning Through the Looking Glass' is because we've told that how powerful James Webb Space Telescope is and we figured why not choose this and our mission (approach) to this is to help people also understand this information BUT in an interactive and fun way! The player will be able to know what is the telescope, what can it do, and how it is better than other telescopes and why it is the most powerful telescope in the whole wide world now after playing Learning Quiz of James Webb Space Telescope (our solution, the game).

But, sometimes we do encountered some setbacks (What a bummer :(). The first thing is that we are all not in the same place, thus discussion and work done are carried out virtually, it is not easy for all of us but luckily everyone is active and super involved in discussions/call. We call for discussion whenever it is needed so that everyone is able to involve, provide valuable input and be posted on the latest information. Everyone are also very helpful, not all of us have a technical background but with our team's help, everyone is able to chip in our effort in building the solution (our game - Learning Quiz of James Webb Space Telescope)!

Last but not least, we'd like to thank NASA International Space App Challenge 2022, Teacher Teo from Real Fun, and every staff member that are behind the scenes for making this hackathon possible! This has provide us the opportunity to work together as a team in solving the challenges that are contributing to the planet that we are living in, our motherland - Earth.

Team Mission to Mars (Kuching) signing out!

Cesari, T. (2022, September). Mid-Infrared Instrument Operations Update - https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/

Smale, A. P. (2022, August). FITS Image Software Packages for image viewing, analysis, and format conversion -https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_viewer.html

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-planning/proposal-planning-toolbox/psf-simulation-tool

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