The Last Team

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x6z-nqaOrACVT7N5m2oJK_TOcVeV562XznTgOqgXiQk/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16FinaBO2reCuZjE5Izdzq-CGBMt0bSqqx-7tQHkaMm8/edit?usp=sharing

"Traveling to the Beginning"

What exactly does it do? How does it work?

This is a quiz game where you are guided by the cutie robot QT. As the title page says, the goal of the game is to recreate the James Webb Space Telescope and leand about it and how it works.

The game tests your learning and knowledge through a series of multiple choice questions divided into 4 main categories.

This is a example question. All questions have 4 options to choose from and only one is the correct answer.

What benefits does it have?

One of the benefits is that the game explain the correct answer in a concise, brief and easy to understand way. For example, the answer of the previous question is shown in the following image

Another benefit is that the questions are divided in 4 categories (known as halls in the game): introduction, construction, launch and discoveries. Also, each category is subdivided in 3 topics (known as rooms in the game). The next 4 images show the categories, each with its 3 subdivisions:

Another benefits, which would be in a future final version, is that the game explains some concepts before each question, which makes it easier to answer the questions. Also, the final version would include some trivia and examples to make the game more interesting. Lastly, the final version would have a scoring system, a ranking system and share options

What do you hope to achieve?

I hope that the final version will be interesting to the people and they want to play it to learn more about the James Webb, and not only about the telescope but topics like electromagnetism, telecommunication, aerospace engineering, propulsion systems, orbital mechanics and much more.

This time I submitted a prototype that I hope reflects the general idea that I have in mind and the final version that I want to create in the future.

What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?

To make the images I use Adobe Illustrator and all the images were put together in a Google Slides file.

This project took information mainly from the NASA and ESA websites.

The webb.nasa.gov website was very helpful as it helped to get an overview of the James Webb telescope and then make a structure that helps to categorize the questions.

For each category, I looked for an image on NASA websites that was attractive to the eye and also searched for information that was short, concise, and easy to understand.

The James Webb is a milestone in the history of mankind and is being (and will be) the source of amazing discoveries about the universe. In addition, I am convinced that science needs to be disclosed to the greatest number of people in a way that is easy to understand. Thinking about it, I decided to take this challenge.

First, it became clear to me that the best and easiest approach is a quiz game, since it is a type of game that everyone knows and people like to test their knowledge and make rankings.

The next step was to research the Webb and get an overview of it. At first I made a list with about 30 topics, but finally I was able to narrow it down to 12 topics divided into 4 categories.

Finding the images and information wasn't difficult, but it took time to create the layouts for each question and answer and eventually put them together in one file.

Due to lack of time, I decided to make a prototype as an interactive presentation in Google Slides with 1 sample question for each of the 12 topics. Maybe later I will finish this project and make the idea come true as I imagined it.

As for the title of the project, I wanted it to have something to do with Webb, so on a NASA website they write that Webb is like a peek into the early universe, so I took that and turned it into a "Traveling to the Beginning" of the universe

The team's name is based on "The Last Question", a short story by Isaac Asimov. And QT is the name of a robot that appears in the book "I, Robot", also by Asimov.

DATA AND IMAGES

1. https://mars.nasa.gov/news/1123/jpl-facility-has-built-famed-spacecraft-for-50-years-see-it-at-jpl-open-house-may-14-and-15/
2. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/science/firstLight.html
3. https://www.nasa.gov/content/vehicle-assembly-building
4. https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/whoIsJamesWebb.html
5. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/light-year/en/
6. https://science.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves#:~:text=Infrared%20waves%2C%20or%20infrared%20light,change%20channels%20on%20your%20TV.
7. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-has-been-assembled-for-the-first-time
8. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html
9. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html#3
10. https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/instrumentation/instruments
11. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/instruments/index.html
12. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html#:~:text=The%20telescope%20itself%20will%20be,nitrogen%20on%20the%20cold%20side!
13. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/about/index.html
14. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/12/ariane-5-webb-launch/
15. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html
16. https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
17. https://esahubble.org/images/heic0910i/
18. https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
19. https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-programs/cycle-1-go

You can find QT in the next link:

• https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/futuristic-robot-constructor-flat-icon-set_8609178.htm#query=robot&position=0&from_view=search

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