Awards & Nominations
UWR-AICS-Astral has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
SES
High-Level Project Summary
Me and my friends learned that robotics important for life. We developed many interesting things in scratch. First we had difficulty for the glitch in scratch. We tried many times to fix it, but we ended up cutting a part of the sprite library for this project and replacing them with voice clips.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We made a game that encourages kids to learn about different stars. When you click the start button it will take you to pictures of stars. You have to press a stars. It will automatically read the description of the stars so it makes it easier for children to learn. And it shows many facts about star as-well
Space Agency Data
The light curve also shows us that it takes 10 days for one of the stars in the binary to orbit completely around the other. Astronomers would say that the binary system has an orbital period of 10 days.
The brightness at the distance of one light-year will be larger than the observed brightness due to the fact that brightness drops like the square of the distance. From these numbers one can extract the distance to the stars. This method works up to 13 million light-years when Earth-bound telescopes are used; for larger distances these stars become too dim to be observed.
Hackathon Journey
After the first session, we went home, had lunch and met with each other. In the meet, we faced glitches, arguments and even a lot of coding that had to be done. When it ended, it was about 10:51pm, but we still met the day after. At 7:00am we met again, finding out solutions, making the project better and made a presentation to go with it! At the end of the meet, we had a feeling that we could win 1st place.
References
https://www.britannica.com/place/Betelgeuse-star
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/stars
Tags
#game #scratch