High-Level Project Summary
We created a website accumulating all information from different resources and put it under one place in a very easy and compact language to make it easier for anyone to access information & data. In the same website, we made different games for users to make the learning more entertaining. We created & added a video in webpage depicting information about our solution to make the session more enjoyable for users. We also added discussion forums for various enthusiasts to exchange knowledge among themselves as it makes learning easier fun. Our website is a curriculum solution which shows examples of variable stars and their variation through learning tabs & games to ask user the cause for it.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our project is a website which contains all the diversed data under one single webpage. Before that the data related to our project was scattered across the internet. We made learning tabs in our webpage and made all diverse data under one single webpage
We created and added a video which has the informative solution about our challenge, like what is Stellar Variability and its variables etc.
fter gaining information, a user can test his knowledge by playing various games added after the information tab in our website. If a user don't want to learn by videos or the information, he/she can play these various games which would be fun and entertaining and by doing that he/she will gain information. The games are :- Quizzes, Puzzle Game, Riddle game.
We added a Recent Discovery tab, which shows the recent discoveries which are automatically updated. If someone wants to learn more about the discovery, they can simply click the discovery and it will redirect them to the webpage containg detailed information about the discovery.
We also added a discussing forum or blog for other various space enthusiasts to connect and exchange information between as learning is more fun with everyone.
We also added a tab which contains numbers of various space elements (like Nebulae, Black Holes etc).
We used HTML for Frontend part, CSS for designing part and Javascript Framework to implement our project. We also used Adobe After Effects and FIlmora Go for creation of the videos. We used Adobe Photoshop to edit images used in our website.
We added a Feedback form so to improve the entertaining and informative lessons, and to get suggestions/feedback from anyone who visits our website in order to update things and improve the website.
We also added the famous quotes from various scientists in order to commemorate them.
Space Agency Data
We used all the data which were available on NASA official website.
We also included the data from various telescopes, like HUBBLE TELESCOPE, JAMES WEBB etc.
Hackathon Journey
JOURNEY-Our journey to NASA space app challenge was not less than like a roller coaster ride but with the team work we ended up here with an informative project work. We learnt many things during our journey team spirit, pressure management, last minute changes and above all how to use advance technology to reach greater audience and came up with the idea which would benefit every person.
INSPIRATION AND APPROACH-We all were fascinated by the fact how amazing the night sky really is. With this interest in Night Sky we came up to this challenge " TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STARS", where we have to efficiently use information to create a curriculum solution. When we went for research for this Challenge, we came up with a problem that there was lot of diverse data and information present everywhere, it was not accumulated on a single website and it was not user friendly and very less interactive. So, we came with a solution to create a website that would accumulate all these data and information with more user interaction and in a very simple and easy way such that a non star enthusiast will get interested. That's why we created and added several learning tabs, several videos, and several games to make it more interactive and entertaining.
CHALLENGES AND SOLUTION-The major challenge for this was to collect exact and correct data and rectify it in a simple manner to put it in website correctly. We divided the topics among ourselves and went for research , that's how we got the correct data and we overcame this challenge by using Teamwork. The second challenge was to create a video. We learned Adobe After Effects and after that created the video by our own. Another challenge was to stay motivated in these long 48 hours Space App Challenge and work efficiently with each other. We worked together and in shifts to keep everyone's energy retained and were able to stay motivated and concentrated during the 48 hours NASA SPACE APP CHALLENGE.
References
TOOLS- VSCODE, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS, HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, MS-OFFICE, GITHUB, GOOGLE DRIVE.
DATA AND RESOURCES LINKS-
https://chandra.harvard.edu/
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/cepheids.html
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/cataclysmic_variables.html
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/how-do-stars-form-and-evolve
exoplanets.nasa.gov
solarsystem.nasa.gov
science.nasa.gov
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/what-are-the-weirdest-stars-in-the-universe/
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/stars_galaxies/missions/alphabetical_index.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/?order=launch_date+desc&per_page=50&page=1&search=&fs=&fc=&ft=&dp=&category=
https://astrobackyard.com/types-of-stars/
nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov
IMAGES USED-
Tags
#software #website #awareness #games #interactive #space #stars #stellarvariability