Aquarela| Create a Mascot
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Create a Mascot
Aquarela
Summary
Aquarela is an educational mobile app for children (from 2-7 years old) to learn about the solar system in an easy way!They'll have a rocket as their mascot that will guide them during their journey into space. It'll be very pleasent and costumizable, so that they can choose their favorite color.The journey will lead them through all of the planets in the solar system, in order. In every one of them, the children will have an unique minigame challenge and while they solve it, they'll listen to an educational song about the planet they're in.All of the data used to create the song lyrics and some of the visual media in the game are from NASA's database.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We've developed an educational mobile app for children (from 2-7 years old) to learn about the solar system with music and minigames.
It's important because children are our diamond for the future. The earlier they learn about science, the more they create, develop and discover about important technologies for the world. Maybe one of them could save our lives, right?
The application teach them in an effortless way about all of the planets in the solar system. We wanted them to learn not knowing they're learning, so thats why we chose music as their book. While they're distracted playing minigames, they'll actually absorb something from it.
We really hope this will be in every children's tablet/smartphone in the world, because science starts not only with graduated scientists, but also in every idea a creative kid can have.
How We Developed This Project
The 'create a mascot' challenge really got our atention. Our team was inspired by it because we all love the educational area!
At first, we searched about all of the people who we could help with a new educational technology, and the kids were the most interesting and loving audience we've found.
We used HTML to develop all of the front-end code for the application. The music was recorded with the IOS voice recorder.
The softwares that helped us are: Visual Studio Code, Adobe XD, Git, Github and Discord.
We had a problem with the developing time, because we really thought we could implement the minigames before the project submission, but we couldn't do that in time.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We used the NASA's websites data to create all of the information found in the song lyrics in the application.
All of the imges of planets we added to our project are from NASA's website for kids.
Project Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQBWt0Mqf8
Data & Resources
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/solar-system/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-mercury/en/
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-venus/en/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/
https://www.nasa.gov/venus
https://www.nasa.gov/planetmercury