Vacuum - Space Apps Challenge

Vacuum| A One Health Approach

A One Health Approach

Air pollution is a major global environmental health risk, causing an estimated seven million deaths across the globe annually. Your challenge is to take an interdisciplinary approach, using both Earth science and health science, and integrate different types of datasets and applications to study the effects of air pollution.

Vacuum: Air Quality Awareness and COVID-19 relation with air quality

Summary

Our project is designed to help people from all ages learn about the problems that are associated with air pollution. This project is a website that separates everyone by their age group and allows them to learn more in depth about the air quality and how they are able to help based on their age and ability. The website is also child friendly. Games have been added to the children's tab, so that they stayed engaged and interested about the planet. The website is interactive with videos, and there are also PowerPoints. This website is a one stop shop for all things air quality.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We developed a website that helps educate everyone on what needs to be done to help save the planet from air pollution based on their age and ability. This is important because most people know that there is a problem with the air quality, but do not know how they can help. Most website just stick everyone into one bracket without adding factors of age and what their lifestyle situation might be. This website solves that problem making it easier for everyone to get involved. we hope to achieve a better planet with the help of everyone around the world from all backgrounds. We want to bring pride in everyone coming together to help the air quality in their own ways. https://thevacuum.co/

How We Developed This Project

Our team decided to choose this challenge because we believe that to have a nice healthy life the air quality needs to be improved, so we decided to help educate everyone on how this can be done, so that everyone has nice air quality for generations to come. Our approach for this project was to reach as many people as we could, so we decided the best way to do that would be with a website because everyone is always on the internet. We used a game software agent to help us make our game for the kids. We also used a website builder provided for us by one of the collaborators(Go Daddy/PorkBun/Weebly) to help make our website. Some problems that we come up with was getting everyone's ideas to come together in a uniform and beautiful way. Achievement that we got was when we finally did get our ideas together it turned out to be an amazing partnership that will grow, and do great things in the future.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We used the information to help learn about the problems of air pollution. We also used the data to help inform the people on our website on why they need to be more concerned about the air quality. We used the NASA data to reinforce our other resources. We used the nasa earth observatory data to observe the change of NO2 before and after the global pandemic lockdowns. This data made our vision crystal clear and reinforced our findings.