Guardians of the Galaxy| 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.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Summary

Creation of a mascot, which using the application will be able to communicate with children (10-12 years old) and explain to them simple information about space. We also include different ways to attract children (for example, games with ratings, prize system).

How We Addressed This Challenge

We have created a mascot, the appearance of which can be changed in a future application on the phone. Now, for the convenience of users, we have created a chatbot in which you can already see our mascot. The chatbot is already programmed to provide information about the planets and constellations. Also, there are already small tests. In the future, we want to add there a rating system for users with a prize in the form of stickers that we have already created.

How We Developed This Project

As soon as we found out about this category of competition, we decided to create a character who would become a real friend-guide to the world of astronomy. When we were looking for analogues of our idea, we did not find anything suitable specifically for the category of children (6-12 years old).


There were also a lot of difficulties in creating the mascot. But we conducted a small interview among children and chose the most optimal version of the character's appearance. But the most interesting decision that we made was that the appearance of our character can be changed to suit the tastes of the user in the future mobile application. So this mascot design will only be the default.


We used Adobe Illustrator to create the mascot.

Adobe Photoshop was also used to create the application interface.

To create a chatbot, we used a chatbot constructor + Python.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

To find facts and data about planets and constellations, we used the available information from NASA.

Data & Resources

https://www.flaticon.com/

https://creativetacos.com/

https://stock.adobe.com/

https://pixabay.com/ru/images/

https://pro.chatforma.com/

Tags
#maskot #chatbot #application
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.