The Challenge | Don’t Forget the Can Opener!

Create an easy-to-use way for people to develop their own, custom checklists – both items and plans – for specific kinds of disasters. Use NASA images, videos, or data visualizations to illustrate each disaster type, to help people understand how to prepare.

A^3

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We are A^3 team, a group of passionate Electro mechanical engineers who are participating in NASA Space Apps 2018. We are developing a website that offers features to increase the awareness towards natural disasters full preparedness.

Outline

Personal data collected

Name
Phone number
Email
Location

Define natural disasters

(Drought, Earthquakes, Floods, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and wildfires)

Basic definition

Available network: go to the disaster and understand it
Unavailable network: friendly use booklet

Map

Build a kit & Plan for emergency

Next steps

Personal data collected
In the personal data section, we let the user use a login and create account and update his information. He can add his name, phone number, email and location in order to get alerts depending on his location. We will get the alerts from the responsible organization

Define natural disasters

Basic definition

Available network

In this section we give each disaster a scientific definition of each disaster.
Also explained with a photo from NASA websites or other resources
We have in certain disasters with special illustrations to make it clearer using photo sliders

How to prepare for each disaster

We have a video explain in brief how to prepare for each disaster
We divided the preparation process into Before, During, and After including what should you do in each stage

Unavailable network

At the very bottom of each disaster you will find a PDF file contain the checklist you can download when you have internet connection and when the internet goes down you will be safe if you followed the steps

Map

In this section you will find a smart interactive map that you can choose and country and it will show you the most commonly happened natural disasters. Besides, it can take you to the disasters pages or view all the disasters

Kit & Plan

In this section, you will be able to find how to build a kit and plan for emergency.

You will find two videos for preparing a kit and two videos for planning for emergencies
Also, you can find detailed kit’s supplies
Addition supplies
Save place you can keep kit at
Keep your kit maintained
your limit weight of the kit
How to prepare a kit for your pets

Next steps