Initially, the team was formed by a group of students who each one of them has his skills and his way to help the team succeed. Luckily, the team members are friends, as the high connection between them could be achieved and could perform the work with high quality. The team decided to follow a working mechanism, which was likely as the engineering design process (EDP). This process consists of 5 steps, which can assist in finding a solution to a problem. Therefore, the team started by the first step, which is "Defining the problem/challenge." To be sure, the team chose "food for thought" challenge because the most important two things, which without them the living organisms can't live, are the food and the water. Thus, the team read the challenge and started to define the problem that we had concentrated on, which was the food supply crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second step is "Gathering information," so the team started to gather data and analyze it to find a lot of information about the challenge. Notably, taking data from trustful resources is the team's searching way. Hence, the team focused on gathering data from NASA's as well as other space agencies' resources. Besides that, the team collected some data from US organizations' resources like FAO's resources and WHO's resources, which are both considered trustful ones too. The third part is the "Brainstorming," which is a group technique by which efforts are made by the members of the team to find ideas for a specific problem and make filtration to choose one specific idea. Hence, we discussed a lot of ideas and decided on one optimum idea, which can be applied during this pandemic. Of note, more than 58% of the world population are internet users. Thus, the idea of the team was to make a website and launch it on the GitHub platform, as all the people can see it and can increase their awareness of this vital field during this pandemic time. Besides, the team decided to encompass the most familiar Q&A about the challenges that the food supply system has been suffering of as well as an extra Q&A about the solution that can be done for these challenges. Of note, the Q&A is from the trustful resources the team did mention above.
Additionally, some extra details were put on the website, such as the "Contact us" page for any visitors' inquiries about the information on the website pages. The fourth step is "building the model or the solution." Therefore, the team's members were split, as each one could do what he has been expert at. Half the team was designing the web pages, while the other half were searching for the Q&A. The last but not the least is the fifth step which is "Improving the solution or the model," in fact, the first outcome wasn't a good one, so all of the team gathered to improve the product and tried to make some changes in it in order to make it an exceptional product.
When COVID-19 pandemic outspread, many countries were affected in many fields. The most affected one was the food supply chain locally and globally. This may cause many obstacles that will threaten people's health. So, we have decided to offer a simple solution to this problem to help people all over the world.
Our approach to developing our project is to establish a simple website that helps people by advising them on how to deal with this pandemic. Our site offers some answers about popular questions to help in spreading awareness about the the problem among people all over the world.
The space agency data sources helped us a lot in collecting information about the pandemic. In addition to providing maps with a full view of the Earth before and after COVID-19. This provided us with an opportunity to see more clear details that cannot be seen from the middle of the pandemic. For example, the SEDAG Global COVID-19 Viewer, which shows the prevalence of COVID-19 cases/deaths, via population-weighted measures, and trends for daily COVID-19 cases/deaths, is being used in our website to help in giving people more information about the pandemic. These sources proffered us with statistics and information about the changes in environment and pollution, food, and agriculture. Some organizations of the United States of America were responsible for collecting information about COVID-19 impacts on agriculture, especially on crops. The article on this website(https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders ) gave us scientific researches that helped us in developing our solution.
We used in our project tools that Nasa provides like maps as the SEDAG Global COVID-19 Viewer that declare which the prevalence of COVID-19 cases/deaths. These maps helped us study the effect of the pandemic visually. We built our website by using HTML, CSS, JavaScript programming languages. We wrote code by using Visual Studio Code (text editor). We also used Photoshop and illustrator for designing our logo and the photos which were added to it.
One of the problems that our team faced was how to spread information and advise people in a simple way that makes them aware of the dangers of this pandemic. Another problem was that we had to collect data from trusted sites so that we ensure that our data correct. From trusted sources that we use them are FAO site WHO and NASA resources ,The achievements :we were able to establish a simple website that provides details for learning more about the pandemic and how to deal with it also contribute to solving the problems. We learned how to use trusted sources to collect data.We were given an opportunity to understand High technology tools and develop our skills in searching, coding, and thinking for a creative solution.
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