Prototype a Night Sky Education App for Secondary School Students in Rural Northern Nigeria

Nigeria's secondary school curriculum includes basic astronomy, but almost no teaching materials connect the subject to students' lived experience. Textbooks use examples from NASA and the European Space Agency, feature photographs of observatories that look nothing like any building a student in Zamfara or Sokoto has seen, and are written entirely in English, a second or third language for many northern students. The result is that space science feels abstract and irrelevant, and very few students pursue it further. You are tasked with designing a prototype for a mobile app aimed at JSS3 to SS2 students (roughly ages 13 to 17) in rural northern Nigeria. The app should teach at least three core astronomy concepts, such as the solar system, star patterns, or the science of satellites, using local landmarks, Hausa star names and folklore, and scenarios drawn from daily life in northern Nigeria. It must work entirely offline, since most rural schools have no reliable internet. Submit: a product concept document (max 2 pages) explaining your pedagogical approach and why the design choices fit the target users; a set of medium-fidelity wireframes covering at least 8 screens; and a short rationale (one paragraph per screen) explaining each design decision. Strong work will show evidence of real research into the target audience: what devices are available in northern Nigerian schools, what the electricity situation is, how students in this region learn best, and whether any Hausa astronomical vocabulary actually exists (it does). Bonus marks for incorporating any of the traditional Hausa calendar systems, which are astronomically based, as a bridge into modern science.