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:
- An education series and curriculum
- A dedicated hackathon
- A dedicated accelerator
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.