Awards & Nominations
Cruzeiro do Sul/CRUX has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
CRUX
High-Level Project Summary
We developed an app prototype that provides information and educational resources about stars and the night sky, focusing on our target audience of children and young people with the objective to facilitate access to these resources in a language and learning dynamics of greater understanding. Through the use of our app, people would use it as a facilitator tool to the understanding of the theme, An app like this is important for the following reasons: it is a source of an authentic and unique way to learn about stars and astronomy for young people around the world, in addition to disseminating astronomical knowledge, encouraging more people to occupy these places in the search for knowledge
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our app prototype was made to provide astronomy content, specifically about stars. It is designed like classes, where everyone has the focus on how much the user knows about what will be taught and consequently making him evolve. After the class, there is the chat presentation, a place where the users can discuss the lessons and show their points of view anonymously, with the purpose to create a community and encourage users to help themselves. With other ways to present the resources, the app counts on news, to make the users connected with and updated about what is happening in the universe. Moreover, there is the opportunities section: developers' recommendations of olympiads, institutes, podcasts, and more, to help the user to have a greater immersion in the stellar world
Space Agency Data
Our team chose to use data from NASA, as we did not know much about the other space agencies, and we used it to produce the class contents of the studies roadmap. Also, we chose to have NASA news on our homepage, knowing that this is an easy way to connect with everything that happens in the world. The NASA information lead us to different planning of the lessons, as we realized the easiest ways to teach astronomy and have the same understanding as an astrophysicist.
Hackathon Journey
To start the hackathon was not easy and thinking about an innovative idea was a challenge. On the 1st day, we had many problems with the group members' schedules, and not everyone could be together at the same time to work on our project, so we had to communicate through different social media and be apart when we most needed. Moreover, on the 2nd day, our country had the presidential elections, a busy day for everybody, and some of the people in the group needed to work alone on the prototype. But, with our teamwork, we handled every adversity and learned about new things such as design, UI, astronomy, and how to be more patient with each other's situations.
References
DATA
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/cepheids.htmlhttps://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/timing1.htmlhttps://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/software.htmlhttps://archive.stsci.edu/missions-and-data/keplerhttps://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/brite/https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/most/https://donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca/dataset/38804261-6p9g-5g8r-622yqwm106ks22https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2022/09/16/jupiter-to-reach-opposition-closet-approach-to-earth-in-70-years/https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2022/08/01/perseids-meteor-shower-on-the-way/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/webb-hubble-capture-detailed-views-of-dart-impacthttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/setting-the-clock-on-a-stellar-explosion.html
https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/09/30/teams-confirm-no-damage-to-flight-hardware-focus-on-november-for-launch/
Tags
#education #app #prototype #stars #extracurriculars #information #news