Encode Club educates, supports and backs the next-generation of university and hacker talent coming into blockchain. We work across 75 universities worldwide. We mainly organise educational programmes, hackathons and accelerators.
After the success of Polkadot's involvement in a recent Encode Club hackathon, we would like to extend our work, bring more adoption and new talent to the ecosystem.
We propose a year-long programme to build student involvement in the Polkadot ecosystem, including:
Please find more details in our proposal deck, attached here.
Our proposal is split across 5 tranches:
For the first tranche, we are asking for 1087.90 DOT (roughly £30,000) to cover the education series and curriculum. With this first tranche funding, we aim to achieve the milestone of delivering 8 events, with 50 universities participating and 1000-2000 students attending.
There are five tranches in total, these are:
Now: £30k to pay for the education series and curriculum
August 2021: £30k once the education series and curriculum is over to pay for hackathon
December 2021: £30k once the hackathon is over to pay for the accelerator.
December 2021 :up to £20k to reward hackers and pay prizes
April 2021: up to £30k to pay grants to the accelerator teams.
All milestone info is in the deck.
Encode Club is an organization that helps students learn about blockchain technology. They work with 75 universities around the world and organize educational programs, hackathons, and accelerators. They want to create a year-long program to involve students in the Polkadot ecosystem. They are asking for money in five parts, starting with £30,000 to pay for an education series and curriculum. They plan to have 50 universities and 1000-2000 students participate in eight events.