Quintessentials - Space Apps Challenge

Quintessentials| Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

There is concern worldwide that environmental issues we face today will have an impact on future generations. Your challenge is to create a way to communicate the importance of environmental responsibility to people of all ages.

EcoSpectre

Summary

EcoSpectre is an app that will help communicate the importance of environmental responsibility to people of all ages. The idea is to educate younger generations in a fun way and engage older generations in the same process. A fun, easy, and rewarding way for everyone to help solve climate change!User can create an account on Ecospectre and have access to all the data available in the app. If they have children, user can add the details of their children and let them participate in Quiz and Visual story about environment. This is to ensure that the kids will learn a lot of things related to environment in a fun way. Datasets from NASA and JAXA have been used in the newsfeed and Visual novel

How We Addressed This Challenge

We have created an app which will help spreading awareness about environmental issue. It is a Micro blogging app where we have used Nasa’s data to create a newsfeed. These datas are all related to the environment.

For Children, we have made learning about the environment fun. We believe they find interest in games or something they can use to compete with their friends. So we have developed a quiz which will give them a basic understanding of their responsibility towards nature and at the same time make it fun for them. There will be a leaderboard which will provide them the competition they need

How We Developed This Project

We have used-

Frond end:

-HTML: HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. It describes the structure of a Web page.

-CSS: CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, paper, or in other media

-Javascript: JavaScript is a scripting or programming language that allows you to implement complex features on web pages.

-Jquery: It is an extended library of JavaScript

Backend:

-Django: Django is an open-source python web framework used for rapid development, pragmatic, maintainable, clean design, and secure websites.

Database:

-PostgreSQL: It is used for Storing user profile details and authenticating the user whenever he/she wants to login.

For storing perks scored by attempting quizzes and unlocking new quizzes when the perk range is hit.

-AWS RDBMS service has been used to make the PostgreSQL accessible and constraints less.

Tools for Visual novel and Visual Novel - based Quizzes:

-Ren’Py: Visual novel and Quiz in the Kids zone are developed using this. It is a programming language and a development engine for making visual novels. And Visual Novel is an interactive story.

-Python scripts: A Python script is a collection of commands in a file designed to be executed like a program.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Datasets from NASA and JAXA have been used in the newsfeed and Visual novel’s, Quiz and story.

The format of data that has been used are:

JPG and PNG images

Animations

Texts

Graph Images

The newsfeed shows the information from NASA websites mentioned in the reference tab to the app users .

The Visual Novels and Visual Novel-based Quizzes use images, animations and text information from NASA and JAXA websites .

In Quiz, these data are used for presenting and questioning users based on those data through images and animations.

In Visual Novel, these data are used to show the environmental issues the world is facing using an interactive story where the user gets to know the importance of all the information that is shown to them.