Mass Cardano Education for Students

Executive Summary

• The Cardano Blockchain and its potentials for Africa is been extensively discussed across the world and most especially by the founder, Charles Hoskinson. The fundamentals of the Cardano blockchain and its use cases will have a significant impact on the African continent if there is first of all a massive awareness creation and education across tertiary and high schools within the country to capture the hearts and minds of the youth to utilize the potentials this great ecosystem is bringing to our doorstep.
• For this reason, I am seeking for funding to be able to reach out to over two thousand students in tertiary and High Schools in Northern Ghana to educate them about the opportunities Cardano is bringing to the African continent and how they can participate through project catalyst. This will be achieved through the organization of meetups and conferences where the target audience will extensively be exposed to what Cardano stands for, the things they are already doing around the globe and the benefits it has for Africa as whole.
• I believe awareness creates a good avenue for adoption and I believe when I get the necessary resources with my team we will be able to spread the awareness, education and knowledge of cardano like wildfire across the tertiary institutions and High schools in Northern Ghana and possibly beyond.

********Project Activities********

Education and Awareness-raising efforts may include the following activities:

• creation of customized cardano educational materials.

• convening conferences and workshops;

• Dissemination of information through several multimedia platforms such as the internet, social media, mobile phones, poster campaigns etc.

• A variety of visual tools such as stickers, logos, t-shirts, banners etc. may also may be used to increase awareness.

*******Roadmap********

1-3 months:

• Reach out and educate at least 1000 tertiary and high school students in northern Ghana through our conferences / meetups that will be organized.

• Our participants will become much more knowledgeable and aware about the opportunities cardano ecosystem is offering to them and how they can bring onboard their brilliant ideas for funding through project catalyst proposal writing.

• Train at least 200 of our participants to become active community advisors to be able to constructively review proposals on ideascale.

***Key metrics to measure:***

• Number of students who have attended our conferences

• Percentage of students that become active community advisers

• Percentage of brilliant proposals submitted by these students to solve local problems in their respective communities.

• Percentage of students that became referrers

• Percentage of students that became proposers

• Number of students that successfully created native cardano wallets and participate to vote for proposals.

•local developers learning Haskell with the long term goal of developing local dapps to solve problems within the nation or their respective communities.

**Activity Launch Date:**

• We intend to start this education this education tour in the month of February 2022 through to Middle of May 2022.

Geographical Area Served

The project will cover tertiary and High schools in northern Ghana

***Community or Cause**

Tertiary students and high school students, staffs etc. will be directly reached out to by our project.

***Vision of Success***

• Students and youth in Northern Ghana will become very much aware and knowledgeable about the opportunities cardano is bringing to our doorstep and how they can participate.

• Local developers will begin to show interest in learning the cardano smart contract programming language (Haskell).

• We will begin to see simple dapps being built by our local developers on the cardano blockchain after learning how to write smart contracts.

• We will also see participation from the art industry in utilizing the NFTs industry to market their works to a wider audience.

• Adoption of cardano and participation of institutions in Ghana through project catalyst.

• Every student belongs to community and once we are able to educate these students, they in turn go back to their communities and become advocates of cardano in their communities and some will be motivated to submit in brilliant ideas through proposals to solve local challenges within their respective communities.

Evaluation Plan

When there is massive education and awareness;

• There will be mass on-boarding of students and participation through project catalyst (active community advisors, proposers etc)

• There will emerge local developers who will start learning how to program in Haskell.

• We will begin to see the creation of dapps by our local developers.

Challenges

• The major challenging factors will be when there is another lockdown as a result of covid which will require less gathering and contact.

• The time it might take for some institutions to approve letters for the event might also be a delay factor.

Risk Management

• We will have to consider setting up for virtual meetings in case of a lockdown.

• We will have to send letters early and work with institutions to get the document for the event approved earlier before the event.

Project Funding Information

Budget ($26,000)

Budget Breakdown.

Creation and printing of customized cardano educational materials $1500

Transportation, feeding, accommodation of Resource persons $7000

Honorarium for resource persons $1600

Publicity $2000

Refreshments of Participants $4000

Conference Space and gadgets rental $4000

Printing of cardano branded T-shirts $4500

Ada rewards for participants through quizzing $1400

Achievement so far or related proposals

Social networks

https://twitter.com/Jerrybnj

Applicant's most recent activities report

I have organized and facilitated three (3) successful community events, two in Northern Ghana and one in Kumasi with the support from Wada. You can follow my twitter handle above to see my works.

***TEAM***

• Jeremiah Baani (https://mobile.twitter.com/Jerrybnj)

• Afia Owusu www.linkedin.com/in/afia-owusu-04911816

• Wada (https://wadalliance.org/)