We wanted to share our hammering statement which we thought is a good goal to have at the end of our user's app experience. We hope you all agree:

We believe solutions to complex issues can come from anyone. Now that you have learned the foundations of deep space communication, the science community needs your help! How should we provide internet to Mars? Which techniques should we use? Would you sell your data for a faster internet? Take your time and think about it. If you come up with a solution, submit it to NASA. Remember, everything starts with an idea. We need your ideas!

Here's a where we will put our final project. Check out what we have so far! https://github.com/pipsta9/RRSS2

With only 48 hours to work, many ideas were shed from the app/solution. We lost gremlins and construction workers. We lost messages from Mom, Dad, and Best Friend. We lost Matt Damon. We also lost some cool graphic loading page ideas and mini games that would have been so nice to incorporate. We lost the gratification of a puzzle piece that would be built as tasks were fulfilled...I think after the hackathon, it would be fun to continue the work and make this a real and viable app for people to learn about deep space communication. That's my insight for today!

Insight: Storytelling is the key to our success! I think that would potentially open up a rabbit hole of details for the solution, but I think what we need to focus on is the presentation, and how we are going to present our data and solution. How did we solve the problem? We will focus on that today!

Finding datasets for this challenge is a challenge. I think I found a resource that might be useful.  It is satellite catalog.  Maybe someone might have a need for it.

It's a BIG problem! 

It was an exciting day today. We had our first ideation meeting via zoom, and we figured out why NASA chose this as a challenge.  Our insights include: 

1) Matt Damon - We might have figured out a perfect avenue to have him featured in our presentation 

2) We need a mathematician - To figure out orbital projections and what does it take to send the smallest possible message. At the very least, someone who is well versed in communication engineering and technology...

3) Platforms - Some of us were working with coding brainstorming platforms for the first time (Trello). And I think without guidance, it would feel really intimidating and overwhelming...Can I say that I for one really love my team? Somehow, the holes of our questions are getting filled instead with bite sized steps of progress. By the end of the meeting, I think we were laughing pretty hard with dreams of Matt Damon. 

4) We take a lot of things for granted with our instant messaging and high resolution graphic files. Even sending LOL, is going to take a lot of effort to get to Mars from Earth - not a laughing matter. However, we could still make it an entertaining experience. Thus, our challenge! 

5) There's an incredible amount of ideas and ways to explore each aspect of the challenge. It'll be hard to pear down the research and central app elements and get it done in time by the end of next week. How are we ever going to choose our favorite ideas?

6) Overall, MissUs? is off to a great start! Don't speak too soon...!