Members of Tomorrow| Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
A Platform that Bridges many Generations
Summary
There is no doubt that the issues of climate change we are facing today will have an impact on future generations. It is absolutely essential that individuals from the younger generation and the older generation are educated on the detrimental effects climate change has on the sustainability of our planet. Our team, "Members of Tomorrow" has devised a public platform accessible by all audiences of any age. It contains brief descriptions, statistics, and information regarding climate change and sustainability. Each information was: 1) collected from data provided by NASA, the CSA, and JAXA, 2) analyzed thoroughly by our team members, and 3) summarized in brief and informative descriptions.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We developed a website that is accessible by people of all ages: this website contains real-world, directly transmitted data from NASA, the CSA, and JAXA and is summarized into brief, descriptive information that individuals of all generations can understand and grasp. This website is important because it serves as an educational platform for people of all ages and informs everyone of the issues regarding climate change and sustainability in a brief, impactful, and aesthetic way. When an individual navigates the website, they will come across the categories, "Home, About, Pollution, Solutions, and Significance." When they choose a category, say "Pollution" for example, descriptions and statistical information verified by NASA and their partnered agencies regarding Pollution are outputted into a readable, enjoyable format. Information regarding climate change and sustainability are scattered around the internet and so another one of our team's purpose was to pull together that information and display it for the audience in a convenient matter. This website implements aesthetics and plenty of visuals so readers can fully understand the gravity of our situation. What we hope to achieve with this project: we hope to serve as a platform that connects individuals of all generations to real information gathered by NASA, the CSA, and JAXA to ultimately address the problems of climate change and sustainability of our planet for future generations.
How We Developed This Project
What inspired this team to tackle this challenge was that we all had a keen interest in the future and how the future will turn out to be if we do not address our current problems of climate change. The topic of sustainability connected curious individuals from locations all around the world with skills in programming, web development, design, and data analysis and thus, "Members of Tomorrow" was born. We took a simplistic, yet challenging approach to this project and decided to develop a tool that:
- 1) captivates the audience with the use of aesthetic formatting and visuals,
- 2) provides real-world observed data gathered by NASA, the CSA, and JAXA into an enjoyable reading moment, and
- 3) will leave a lasting impact on the viewer and conveys the significance of sustaining our planet for future generations.
We used the following tools, coding languages, and software in this project:
- coding languages: HTML, CSS, Java, and Javascript for the structure of the website
- software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, Adobe Colors, Vyond, and Google Fonts for the design of the website; Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Excel for information gathering; Trello, Google Sheets, and Discord for means of communication and collaborating with one another and keeping track of time zones; and Pexels and Pixabay as websites for providing free images.
- external (website accessibility): to make the website publicly accessible by everyone, we obtained a domain from Porkbun for free using NASA's coupon code; we then obtained a host by using Firebase Hosting and connected it to our domain through the use of DNS settings and addresses; we then used Node.js to upload our coding language documents to our host and we deployed the content to the domain. Thus, membersoftomorrow.us is now accessible by everyone!
Given that our team consists of members from around the world, the main problem we had was adapting to each other's time zones. We are all from different time zones but we overcame this by developing a Google Sheet that kept track of everyone's availability hours and with this, we were able to collaborate with one another and produce an amazing website! Another problem was the very limited time window we had to work with considering our entirely different time zones. Although interactive components were not able to developed into our final submission, we were still able to layout the content, the navigation, and everything else! Our biggest achievement was overcoming the challenges of different time zones and a limited two-day time frame and being able to create with one another and educate each other with each of our skills.
All individuals of Members of Tomorrow contributed a crucial part in this project:
- Heginio Jr Taeza - data analysis, management, provided accessibility of audience to website
- Ege Töz - designed UX principle-based user-interface components of the website
- Elizaveta Grintsevich - composed and developed the website with use of HTML and CSS
- Sayed Shiraj Uddin Ahmed Shihab - research and provided ideas to enhance our project
- Vishakha Naik - research and provided visual effects to captivate the audience
Below is how we developed the layout for our webpage using Adobe XD and Illustrator:
Below is a link to a very short clip that demonstrates how navigation works in the layout above:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MsjFPFhuPKsmKkbIYuO9kN_LJ7OW8Uj7/view
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Members of Tomorrow did extensive and thorough research on statistics and information using NASA's Earth data obtained by their Earth-observing satellites, the CSA's NPRI reports and satellite-obtained maps, information, and statistics, and Earth data collected by JAXA's satellites. We performed concise analysis on this information, pinpointed and assembled the crucial statistics, and summarized them in a fashion that will be enjoyable and easy for our audience to read. This information helped influence our project by providing accuracy, credibility, and a solid foundation to our content.
Project Demo
PowerPoint Presentation of our Project designed by our talented member, Vishakha Naik
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1idJ7GaeQXU_OpbKuBA-GrW3LJdxZNJJr/view?usp=sharing
Public and accessible link to our webpage:
www.membersoftomorrow.us
or simply,
membersoftomorrow.us
Data & Resources
All sources used for this project:
https://airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters/air-quality
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/air-pollution/#:~:text=Air%20pollution%20is%20caused%20by,our%20air%20are%20called%20aerosols.
https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/health-air-quality
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/health-and-air-quality-data-pathfinder
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/carbon/
https://climate.nasa.gov/
https://www.britannica.com/science/land-pollution
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/national-pollutant-release-inventory/tools-resources-data/fact-sheet.html
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/fgpv_vpgf/49deb8b2-10a6-4b4a-ad7c-9cbc2eda260b
https://gportal.jaxa.jp/gpr/?lang=en
https://maps.canada.ca/journal/content-en.html?appid=8a338d0681824636998c355671ce4f88&appidalt=361e6a263e6547a0b2e0e36f04546599&locale=en
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/unwelcome-enrichment-in-the-arctic
http://earth.jaxa.jp/en.html
https://www.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-and-reusing-basics
https://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry
https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/