S-KBD67
A Nerf blaster rebuilt as a first-person-shooter controller.
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familiar thing new job
An object or app everyone knows is given a job it was never meant for.
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At student major league events
BASIC Web
A from-scratch BASIC compiler and runtime for building interactive web pages.
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Connected Earth Museum
Walk a 3D virtual museum where each painting opens a live NASA data visualization of how Earth's systems connect.
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Eco-Metropolis (Innovisionaries)
A three-level city-building game that teaches sustainability, ending with urban-planning decisions made on real NASA Earth data.
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Henry's Farm Adventures (Zumorroda-X)
A story-driven farming game: travel with Henry to farmers facing floods, heat, drought and salty soil, and solve each with real NASA satellite data.
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