High-Level Project Summary
The James Webb Space Telescope (or simply JWST) is the state-of-the-art successor to the history-making Hubble Space Telescope, with longer infrared wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity, enabling humanity to literally look into the past at the beginning of time itself, hunting for the first galaxies and looking for clues that will reveal the origins of the universe. To teach the public about the capabilities, components, and history of this incredible technological achievement, our team has created an educational game highlighting these features.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The James Webb Space Telescope (or simply JWST) is the state-of-the-art successor to the history-making Hubble Space Telescope, with longer infrared wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity, enabling humanity to literally look into the past at the beginning of time itself, hunting for the first galaxies and looking for clues that will reveal the origins of the universe. To teach the public about the capabilities, components, and history of this incredible technological achievement, our team has created an educational game highlighting these features.
Space Agency Data
We incorporated the space agency data into our project and game by using the images from and about both the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. This data helped us finish our game because one main aspect of our game is to compare and label the images.
Hackathon Journey
With only 48 hours to complete the project, we knew we had to use our time efficiently. Being a four person group, we had to do a lot of work and with conflicting schedules it was extremely challenging to find a time to do this. But we devoted ourselves and committed our time to complete this project. By overcoming these challenges, we were able to research, code, and write this report.
Step 1: Discussion and Game Concept
Step 2: Research and Development using Scratch Block Programming
Step 3: Finalizing Concepts & Report
References
Tags
#JWST, #telescopes, #JamesWebb, #Hubble, #Scratch