Mascot is the personification of the idea that underlies any company. The idea of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is inspiring the world by exploring new frontiers, discovering new knowledge, and developing new technology. We want to help NASA, so we created Marcel, the cat that transfers information from NASA scientists to children and everyone who wants to learn more about space in a simple and playful way.

We have studied promotion channels and identified social networks as one of the best ways to convey information. However, the structure of the social network allows only the last post to be displayed. Therefore, we want to use social networks to redirect to a convenient online encyclopedia, which is constantly updated with information directly from NASA news.

Thanks to the online mode, in the future, you can add educational games and QR codes to the site with purpose to display AR models.

Thanks to the online mode, in the future, it's possible to add educational games and QR codes with purpose to display AR models (planets or constellations).

We used:

• application Procreate to draw our cat;

• Instagram to tell about our idea and are already starting to gather friends to share with them about NASA's discoveries. Our friends are people all over the world who would be interested in discovering Space;

• Paint .NET to design photos for Instagram page;

• Infographic to prove that solution in this form is the best one. Source: https://www.swnsdigital.com/2019/09/traditional-childrens-hobbies-have-been-replaced-by-modern-phenomena-such-as-computer-and-mobile-games/

• HTML, CSS, JS to create design of the page;

• github.com to deploy the concept of the solution;

• canva.com to create the presentation.

Achievements:

Instagram page with 50 real subscribers in 4 hours.

Concept of the page.

Telegram sticker pack with 6 beautiful stickers.

Problems

We need an AR-developer and 3D-designer to create augmented reality 3D models.

We need Android and iOS/Flutter developers to create a game.

We need 3D-animator to start TikTok and YouTube marketing company.

Pictures were used from

1. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
2. https://images.nasa.gov/

Article for demo:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/university-students-design-prototypes-that-nasa-could-use-in-deep-space-human-exploration

Concept of website: https://ricotgr.github.io/marsel/

Our presentation: https://www.canva.com/design/DAEJqTkyHdY/GE6llKRtWTkli3ozf5I9VA/view?utm_content=DAEJqTkyHdY&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

For pictures and interesting materials: nasa.gov

For infographics: https://www.swnsdigital.com/2019/09/traditional-childrens-hobbies-have-been-replaced-by-modern-phenomena-such-as-computer-and-mobile-games/

For statistic of animals popularity:

1. https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/news-russian-47270093
2. https://www.true.travel/the-most-popular-animals-according-to-instagram/