Eureka Sistar| Create a Mascot

Create a Mascot

The world is full of scientific information that can help us make informed decisions and take action. However, that information is not always accessible to young learners. Your challenge is to create a mascot that can help make learning about Earth and space science more fun and welcoming for younger audiences.

A new friend from other galaxy

Summary

This project aimed to create a mascot to facilitate children's learning about astronomy and astrophysics. Therefore, after several researches on education, not only in Brazil, but also in the USA, we set up applications for the mascot and it itself to be interactive and children can identify themselves. Through an extraterrestrial character, with vibrant colors, we managed to bring sympathy and lightness to this character in addition to diversity because he has no gender. In this way, the target audience would be able to learn in a fun way, adding diversity in technology and helping in the future and solving the problems of humanity.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We criated a mascot. It is made to help children to have a better understanding about astronomy and Earth Sciences, since it's funnier way and a easier method to communicate than just long texts and no-pictures books. We hope the mascot can help teachers and organizations to teach in a more criative way than using nomal resources.

How We Developed This Project

We chose this challenge so we could learn new things and have a fun time. The challenge mentioned education and that's an interesting subject to talk and study about. We searched not just about possible applications, but why there could be a need of a mascot. We studied about character creation. The softwares used were Miro, to organize the ideas, Google Slides to produce the presentation and Photoshop to draw the mascot. The major problem we had a reduced time and had to stay up until late hours and none of our integrants can sleep less than 8 hours, as achievements we learned a lot about the education situation in our country and about the creative process of a mascot. We also found out that turning concepts in visual material isn't an easy thing.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We used some infographics provided by Canadian Space Agency. They inspired some applications where the mascot could be used. The mascot would be a coummunication medium so that complex informations could be passed to kids as a basic info.

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Tags
#mascot #education #playful #ludic
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.