Inspiration
Born and grew up in Xinjiang, China, I was always fancisnated with the vast plateaus and mountains, while many parts of them has few human footprint, remaining their originality of natural beauty. Thus the NASA earth data caught my eye at the first glance, where many of them have a central topic --- climate change. As the environment changes abruptly because of human activity, I feel pain in my heart to see animals lost their familes, beautiful landscapes no longer exists under the impact of global warming. While brainstorming with my partner, I was arosed with some childhood memory, about how much I was unwilling to use relatively small water to shower, and how relucant I was when my mom not driving me to school but let me take bus instead. Those experience deeply reminds me of the importance of education about awareness of protecting environment about their serious consequence, and little things we can do in our daily life. Thus we came up an idea of teaching kids about weather, climate relevant knowledge, and show them what is happening and what they can do, that will be cool.
What it does
It has two part: commense enriching and games. For the first part, we'll introduce some basic knowledge about weather and climate in a fun and interactive way. The games have three levels, each focusing on a period of earth, which are ancient time, industrial reluvolution and modern days. First level will be simple testing about weather and climate commense, they will pass when they rich the certain score. Second level will be matching games, for consequences of certain pollutions can cause. Third level will be environmental-friendly decision making in daily life senerios. One thing to mention, if kids made environmental unfriendly decision, they will be "pushed" back to the industrial time, with darker theme and more difficult challenges, as one way to raise arwareness.
How we built it
We used React.js as frontend, and Flask as backend, both connected with databse which stores players infomation and playing records.
Challenges we ran into
Two people were supposed to working on it, but my partner left when we just decided the idea, thus I have to do parts that I am very unfamilar with.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I finished the education part of the evironment, and came out of clear and feasible plan, buiilt the database and frontend files, was fully ready for it.
What we learned
I got solidly enhanced experience in Front end, which I always looking for practice; and I learned Flask to do backend job, and also learned using MySQL workbench that makes everything much simpler and more clear. Also I gained a lot insights of how front end, back end and database interact, especially passing data and logic function control.
What's next for Climate-time
Game feature developing. We'll insert the resources such as 3 different pollution period theme of earth we have found, and start to actual accomplish the game.
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