The Isolation Solution

Social distancing policies enacted the world over during the COVID-19 pandemic have left many people socially isolated. Your challenge is to develop innovative solutions to combat social isolation.

Konectando

Summary

Several young people were impacted in this pandemic for not having smartphones and computers to join remote classes.With that in mind, we created Konectando, a website that people who have these devices can donate to our collection points, which are registered schools. These schools will distribute them to the students who need them.Our project has a direct impact on education and training, as well as providing opportunities for people to connect with each other.

How We Addressed This Challenge

As a result of social isolation, which aims to prevent COVID-19, several educational institutions have joined remote classes, however there are many students who do not have computers and smartphones that provide quality access to classes. To solve this problem we created a website that will bring together people who have these devices and who do not use them at the moment, collection points and students who need these electronics. Our project brings a new reality to these students, because in addition to participating in online classes, they and their families will be able to use the devices to communicate with other people, thus reducing social isolation.

How We Developed This Project

Our motivation came through our persona Lukas, he is a student and does not have a computer and cell phone at home. And in this pandemic moment, it suffered a great impact, for not having access to these electronics, which makes it very difficult at the time of the study, for not being able to clear your doubts quickly with your teachers and maintain the connection with your colleagues. We use the data made available by space agencies as the basis for our research. From these data, we found that social isolation can lead to psychological disorders and that for this reason it does not occur with astronauts, the space agencies prepare and study this individual to carry out the mission in a peaceful way. We also realized that maintaining a connection to something in the isolation period is essential for astronauts. And looking at our reality, something that keeps us connected is access to computers and smartphones. To develop the website we used Javascript, Node.js, Sequelize, MySQL, Express, Vue.js, HTML, Axios.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/eVJf9dGc80s

Data & Resources

https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/social-isolation

Tags
#konectando #impacto # mudança #novarealidade
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.