With great joy and a warm heart, I hereby announce that Helixstreet, a decentralized validator residing in Basel, has dutifully fulfilled his civic duty by casting his vote, and the votes entrusted to him, in favor of this great proposal.

The Polkadot Blockchain Academy has cemented itself as a staple of high quality developer education and onboarding for students around the world.

We can already feel the positive impacts in the ecosystem from the students who have graduated. Students from the academy are launching new projects, using word of mouth to bring other smart minds into our ecosystem, and using the information they learned to educate others in the same way we have educated them.

Obviously I am biased in my view of the PBA, as I am one of the instructors and course developers for the program, but testimonials from students should make it clear what a positive impact this program is.

In case there are any new eyes to this proposal who are questioning the amount of spend here, I want to make clear how much of a great investment this program is for the Polkadot community.

I conservatively estimate that a student that completes the PBA has experiences the equivalent onboarding as 6 months in a high quality Polkadot ecosystem dev team. Assuming those 6 months are worth around $50,000 of salary, and that we educate around 90 students each academy, we are bringing to Polkadot at least $4.5M of value in just raw education time, not even counting the network effects and tangible outcomes that result at the end of the program.

If anything, I would push that the academy asks for more funds to pay for instructors to continue to build and keep up to date high quality content for the latest in Polkadot, and for different kinds of users, for example those who need more introductory level material into Polkadot, or those who need to delve deep into specific technical parts of the Polkadot SDK.

Hello from Polkadotters,
easy AYE here, this is kind of a proposal that benefits the Polkadot ecosystem in the long run. Having 100+ graduates from the academy is truly awesome. 

On behalf of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) I am posting this treasury proposal for funding of the fifth wave of the Academy. The PBA will run from 20th May to 20th June, 2024 and will be held at the National University of Singapore. The program is selecting 90 in person students and 50 to 100 remote students who will join via video and audio link. The goal of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy is to help speed the adoption of Polkadot by seeding the ecosystem with educated developers and aspiring technical Polkadot ecosystem team founders. Currently we offer in person education such as the previous course held at Cyberport in Hong Kong, we are also creating online content to roll out an asynchronous course and are piloting the remote offering in Singapore Below is a link to the proposal in detail. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K1hkkK7OYxZ1dhpLMC36lJuO5FBlhEe1dMtQYyNcHbQ/edit#heading=h.l03seqnwsavp

The Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) is asking for money to run their fifth program. This program will happen from May 20 to June 20, 2024, at the National University of Singapore. They will teach 90 students in person and 50 to 100 students online. The goal is to help more people learn about Polkadot and become good at using it. They teach in person and also make online lessons. You can read more about their plan by clicking this link: [Proposal Details](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K1hkkK7OYxZ1dhpLMC36lJuO5FBlhEe1dMtQYyNcHbQ/edit#heading=h.l03seqnwsavp).

Awarded

big_spender

WHO: Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA)
WHAT: Funding proposal for the fifth wave of the Academy, selecting 90 in-person and 50-100 remote students to speed up Polkadot adoption
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified in the summary, detailed proposal available in the provided link.

Polkadot Blockchain Academy - Wave 5 in person and remote - Singapore 20th May to 20th June 2024