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.

Tectoid

Tectoid is a buddy who helps you to be prepared for a disaster in a fun way.

The project

Natural disasters are one of the most inevitable things in the world. Who has never read in a newspaper or watched on television about some disaster? A large part of the world's population experiences this problem, but not all people have access to information on how to deal with it. Most of the time, too late.

According to FEMA, in 2007, 80% of the America population suffered from natural disasters and only 30% of the population had any plans for an eventual problem. Sometimes it is too late to try to learn something about these problems, people lose their lives because of a lack of information. Most of the time, this information was even passed on, but was passed in the wrong way.

To help people, we've created an application that helps those who want to prevent these problems. Tectoid helps you manage the supplies in your home and tells you what you'll need for certain situations, it also keeps a plan of you and your family for some problem you can do it and not lose the contact.

We help you to understand and learn the characteristics of catastrophes and know how they occur and Tectoid has plans for you to know what to do in a dangerous situation. All of this information can be found on the internet, but our differential is that we can get content that was left out and we use the game element to make all this learning more interesting. It is also worth mentioning that the whole Tectoid has these elements.

By informing and planning the population, there will be some mitigation of these data. Thus, we can improve the chances of survival in these situations.