High-Level Project Summary
Our challenge focused on offering a learning tool providing information about stellar variables. We built a website which could address the solution. It targeted small-aged people. Our project didn't focus on the curriculum content as much as it focused on representing a funny learning tool for an advanced topic.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
1. The website is divided into 3 basic sections: home section, explore section and our team section.
The home section includes a header which leads to the other previously mentioned website sections. It starts with the team name "star hackers" an inspiring or motivational quote to drive the user to complete his journey in the website. In addition to the main character of the website, Nadine
The explore section includes a video hosting an attractive chat between Nadine and another astronaut who encourages her to explore the causes of star twinkling throughout the website. After the video there are cards including the sub-contents of the explore section, which conduct causes and NASA's real applications to these phenomena.
Each card includes a photo for the topic, the topic title and two buttons one for reading the content while the other is for testing the user's understanding after continuing reading.
In each content, a short story, whose hero is Nadine, is written before mentioning the topic details. The content mention its details by gradual increase in the level of difficulty.
The Our Team section includes data about the team members and links to their social media.
2. The project is easily used by direct interaction between the user and the dynamic website.
3. Daily development of technology drives us to turn most of the learning tools to e-learning tools. Our website benefits is the extra use of animations, attractive colors, designs, pictures and way of writing.
4. We hope to have a financial aid to buy a paid domain instead of a free one.
5. We used:
- Visual studio code compiler
- HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Space Agency Data
Classical novae: Cosmos. Classical Novae | COSMOS. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/c/Classical+Novae
Dwarf novae: Cosmos. Dwarf Novae | COSMOS. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/d/Dwarf+Novae
Kepler. MAST. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://archive.stsci.edu/missions-and-data/kepler
NASA. (n.d.). Tess Science Support Center. NASA. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/software.html
NASA. (n.d.). Cepheids. NASA. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/cepheids.html
NASA. (n.d.). Imagine the universe! NASA. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/cataclysmic_variables.html
NASA. (n.d.). Light curves - introduction. NASA. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/timing1.html
NASA. (n.d.). GCVS - General Catalog of Variable Stars (June 2022 version). NASA. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/gcvs.html
Hackathon Journey
1. This journey can be described as one of the best experiences anyone can get through, starting with the cooperation within the teammates and helping to find the best way to show the project to everyone.
2. In this competition, we learned a lot of new things, like web development, programming, teamwork, and increased our social skills. In our team(Star Hackers),
3. We were inspired that this challenge would be the best challenge to work on because of our knowledge of the stars and astronomy.
4. The other thing was the approach to developing the project. We worked on developing the project from starting with making the website using languages (such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) to developing it to be better for any visitor to the site and making it more fun and interesting for those who want the knowledge.
5. We also had some problems at the beginning of our NASA project. One of the hardest challenges we got through was the challenge of our limited time to make the project and show it to the judges.
6. Finally, we want to thank some of our mentors in the competition, such as Albokhary and Mohamed Elmesery, for helping us with the project to be shown in the best way to the judges.
References
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/cepheids.html
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/cataclysmic_variables.html
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/timing1.html
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/gcvs.html
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/software.html
https://archive.stsci.edu/missions-and-data/kepler
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/c/Classical+Novae
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/d/Dwarf+Novae
Tags
#website