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on August 5, 2014 at 8:19:11 am
 

Our Apps

 


 

A major activity of the workshop was a 'hackathon', in which students would compete in building citizen science apps on the theme of climate change. The goal of this activity was to give students hands-on experience with citizen science and to get them thinking about how they could apply the web skills they already had to tackle climate change in their local environment.

 

On the afternoon of the first day, students split up into three teams. For the rest of the day, they brainstormed app ideas, using what they had learned from us about citizen science and heard from elder Eugene Brower about climate change.  The idea was to focus on what they wanted to do, without thinking too much about how they would do it. 

 

On day two, they worked on how they'd build their apps. In the afternoon, they put together presentations, which they then presented to an audience of friends, family and College staff. 

 

Here's what they came up with: 

 

Team 1

 

Team 1 produced ideas for two apps:

 

  • an app to raise awareness of the ecological consequences of the HAARP project. 
  • an app to measure air quality using mobile phones and filters. 

 

You can have a look at their presentation here:

 

 

Team 2

 

Team 2 created "The Arctic Change" a Facebook community page where people can post photos to raise awareness about arctic climate change.

 

 

Team 3

 

Team 3 came up with an idea for a Game Tracker mobile app. The game tracker app would allow hunting teams to share information about game with each other, while keeping the information secure. Information could also be shared with scientists to study the effects of climate change.

 

They did a storyboard for the app first...

 

 

Then a mock-up... 

 

 

 

Saturday Workshop

 

We met again on Saturday for  another workshop  with  students who wanted to take their ideas further. Here's what we worked on.

 

Erosion Tracker

 

Alyssa Granatir came up with her own idea for an app to collect data on soil erosion on the North Slope. She produced some wireframes which you can see here:

 

 

Game Track

 

Sarah Coleman started building a prototype of her Game Track app. You can try the app out here. (It's just a prototype at the moment…)

 

 Here's a screenshot. 

 

 

 

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