Spacetionary | Dictionary of Earth
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The Challenge | Dictionary of Earth
Develop a creative way for the public and scientists alike to learn the definitions of Earth-related scientific and technical terms, using the power of crowdsourcing.
Spacetionary: Crowdsourced Urban Dictionary for Science Terms
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Spacetionary is a google chrome widget that help users understand difficult scientific terminology seamlessly from trusted resources and others like you.
Learning is hard. However, learning scientific terms is even harder.
The concept behind the application is to provide users a seamless and effortlessly way for people like you to absorb difficult scientific terminology at ease. By incorporating trusted resources as the basis, Spacetionary also provides a social crowdsourcing aspect that allows users to write their own definition as well as rank others' definition.
Technology:
- Google Chrome Extension
- NASA API
SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.