Awards & Nominations
YoungStars has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
Understanding the Stars!
High-Level Project Summary
Humans have been observing that stars' brightness fluctuates for thousands of years, yet most individuals are unaware of the cause of this phenomena. Because Earth's atmosphere causes starlight to be impeded as it makes its way to the planet's surface, stars seem to twinkle. We created a user-friendly learning website that teaches people about stellar variability in order to spread awareness about it. Our website will act as a 24/7 information source and include a variety of content produced by qualified authors. The website also has an enjoyable game that users may play to assess the knowledge they acquired from the articles.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We suggest a straightforward and approachable technique to introduce humans to the concept of star variability, which is alien to them. Our website is easy to navigate and user-friendly. With the use of educational blogs written by authorized professionals, we hope to educate people about stellar variability. Before being made public on the website, the article is first checked by the admin. A fun game has been developed to assess the information acquired as a result of reading the articles, which will enable anyone to see how effective the learning was. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—the potent web development trinity—were used to construct the website's front end. For making the evaluation game, applications like Canva, Blender, and Godot Game Engine were utilized. Finally, Django was used to integrate the entire project. The website is simple to use and available to information suppliers and active learners every day of the year with only one motive which is to spread the word about the concept of stellar variability.
Space Agency Data
The questionnaire for the assessment test to check knowledge acquired by readers after going-through the articles were created using the materials offered by NASA.
Hackathon Journey
Our hackathon journey was filled with ups and downs, and at one point while working on the project, we worried that we wouldn't be able to finish it in just two days. However, thanks to the incredible efforts of our team, we were able to finish the project. We found that deploying the project was the most challenging endeavor. We discovered the cause of the Twinkling of Stars while working on this project. Since the majority of us are electronic and computer engineers rather than people with a background in space, it was quite challenging for us to adjust to the diverse space data that NASA gave.
References
Text’s used for making questions-
1.) Light Curves - Introduction (nasa.gov)
2.) Cataclysmic Variables: Quiz (nasa.gov)
3.) KEPLER (stsci.edu)
Software Tools-
Frontend: 1.) HTML(https://html.com/)
2.) CSS()
3.) JS(https://www.javascript.com/)
Backend: 1.)Django(https://www.djangoproject.com/)
Game: 1.) Godot Game Engine(https://godotengine.org/)
2.) Canva(https://www.canva.com/)
3.) Blender(https://www.blender.org/)
Frontend image: https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/galaxy-nature-aesthetic-background-starry-sky-mountain-remixed-media_17226410.htm#page=2&query=space&position=1&from_view=keyword
Tags
#Stars, #stellar variability,#YoungStars