Space chickens | Better Together
Better Together
Space Chickens
Summary
The project aims to foster collaboration between experts from urban universities, organizations and industry with young people from rural areas.Promoting the delivery of opportunities, trainings, courses and projects to young people in marginalized areas, for this we have planned to appoint ambassadors in each community with whom we will have contact to schedule meetings, hold campaigns, form hubs and promote collaborative work.We pretend that by bringing technology to many young people who are dedicated to the field, they can make a profit and at the same time they can develop ideas and share techniques that support future space missions in the agricultural area.
How We Addressed This Challenge
What we do is form alliances and connections to bring opportunities for improvement to young people in rural communities through support and collaborations with the same communities and with experts from urban areas.
It is important because many young people stop studying to dedicate themselves to the field and by focusing on supporting them in this sector they will have a benefit by learning how technology can be applied to their life and they can propose and develop solutions to the challenge of agriculture in difficult areas and also in the space.
We plan to first identify the areas of Mexico with the largest youth population by working in the fields and approaching them through federal government social programs.
How We Developed This Project
We set out to attack this problem because we landed on how technology can help the field and how knowledge from the field can be used in space missions.
We know that many cultures and in many areas of Mexico keep ancient techniques for crops to survive pests and grow in unsightly environments, we also know stories of young people who have left their studies due to the lack of opportunities they have in their communities and due to the need of having to dedicate himself to the field.
We know that not all cities have access to the internet, so we oppose the model of ambassadors and that they are our main contact to organize events, the ambassadors would be located in areas with telephone coverage and we would bring the internet connection to them.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We use the resources on the page to understand the problem and areas of opportunity in Mexico, in the same way, the talks transmitted by Space Apps CDMX on Facebook helped us to define our idea.
Likewise, we use databases to locate the areas where our project could begin to be piloted and where the largest rural young population is found.
Project Demo
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gp0IZtd5fM2aIpRGdW0Cw9-qazCuyMn7qu4s5jEXKR4/edit?usp=sharing
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Data & Resources
Olguín, M. A. G., & Acosta, J. G. S. EL AGRO MEXICANO EN EL SIGLO XXI.
Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (2018). México rural del Siglo XXI. I9548ES
NASA (2005) Societal Impact of the Space Age.
Dick, Steven J., "Interstellar Humanity," Futures: The Journal of Forecasting Planning and Policy, 32 (2000), 555-567.
Índice de marginación (carencias poblacionales) por localidad, municipio y entidad - Índice de marginación por municipio, 1990-2015 - datos.gob.mx/busca. (n.d.). Datos.Gob.Mx. Retrieved October 4, 2020, from https://datos.gob.mx/busca/dataset/indice-de-marginacion-carencias-poblacionales-por-localidad-municipio-y-entidad/resource/94ab296d-21dd-4153-8131-caba6271c0fc