We propose holding face-to-face talks and panels with catered networking events for university students interested in the Cardano cryptocurrency and its ecosystem of initiatives.

Total of 6 events will be hosted.

2 Universities have been selected with 1 backup.

University of Queensland
Queensland University of Technology
Griffith University (back-up)

Events will happen monthly for 3 months as part of this pilot program, totalling 6 events across the 2 universities.

Universities, we believe, are where the next generation of developers and crypto enthusiasts are born, and they should be a primary focus for growing interest in and exposure to Cardano.

We'll bring a lot of information to the events, as well as guest presenters, to educate and inform students about current Cardano cryptocurrency topics.

All of the events will be photographed and videotaped. Social media will be used to share the movies and photographs.

The events will be absolutely free (there will be no registration charge), and we will always look for ways to attract more people to the events.

These events will highly incentivise university students to attend and be exposed and educated about blockchain technology and Cardano.

Pandemic:

Currently regulations allow large gatherings, however we are unable to control this.

Risk Mitigation: Use online tools such as Zoom to host.

Low turn-out / attendance:

There are many incentives such as food and opportunity to network that will attract student attendance.

Risk Mitigation: If low attendance happens we are able to pivot to more intimate tutorials and workshops and take on a quality over quantity approach.

[FEASIBILITY]

Our proposal is to:

Develop suite of technical talks hosted by industry professionals regarding different topics such as:
Introduction to Cardano
What does Cardano development look like?
What is Staking and Staking Pools
SPO who are they?
What does a future with Cardano look like?
Create connections with university societies and present the collection of technical talks and panels on a regular basis i.e. Monthly Cardano Talk
Host events that utilize the technical talks to develop interest and exposure to Cardano and food to encourage students to attend. Events will have a structure as such:

1 - 2 hour Technical Cardano Talk / Cardano Panel
1 hour Networking + Food with Speaker / Panel Members

Our goal is to:

Create an organization that can reach out to universities and offer fully paid technical talks or panels with catered networking.

Our project timeline:

Month 1

Phase 1: Program planning phase

Liaising with Universities to organize time slots
Finding food vender
Finding event locations
Finding and developing relationships with speakers / panel members
Planning event logistics

Month 2

Phase 2: Execute events

Host first event at the chosen university
Collect feedback and improve subsequent events with feedback
Host second event at the other chosen university
Collect feedback and improve subsequent events with feedback

Month 3

Phase 2: Execute events

Host third and fourth event at the 2 chosen university
Collect feedback and improve subsequent events with feedback

Month 4

Phase 2: Execute events

Host fifth and sixth event at the 2 chosen university
Collect feedback and improve subsequent events with feedback
Collate learnings and publish a public template for university expose and educate events with lessons learnt.

Phase 1: Program planning phase (Total = $1400):

Planning cost: $35/hr x 40hr = $1400

Including:

Liaising with Universities to organize time slots
Finding food vender
Finding event locations
Finding and developing relationships with speakers / panel members
Planning event logistics

Phase 2: Execute events (Total = $2940)

Per event costs:

Food cost - $30/person x 30 people per event = $900

Location hire - $100/hour x $3 hours = $300

Speaker / Panel members pay - $100/hour x (3 hours speaking + 3 hours preparation time) = $600

Photographer - $75/hr x 3 hours = $225

Videographer + Video creation - $75/hr x (3 hours shooting + 3 hours editing) = $450

Event MC - $75/hour x 3 hours = $225

Event logistics Staff - $40/hr x 3 hours x 2 people = $240

Total of 6 events will be hosted.

2 Universities have been selected with 1 backup.

Events will happen monthly for 3 months as part of this pilot program, totalling 6 events across the 2 universities.

------- Total Cardano University Expose and Educate Initiative Pilot Cost --------

$1400 (Program planning phase) + $2940 (Per event cost) x 6 events = $19,040

Emerson

Close connections with 3 different Computing related societies.
3 years experience organising university society events.
Co-SPO for DOG Pool with strong relations with other Cardano industry professionals.
Currently working as Software Engineering at global company.

[AUDITABILITY]

Number of registrants in the event
Events completed with photo evidence and feedback given
Number of new participants in the community after the event

The success of the project will be determined by the number of students we can introduce to Cardano and for those who wish to learn more about blockchain technology, the number of students that choose to invest time to learn and develop on Cardano. Our primary goal is to educate university students about blockchain technology and Cardano, demonstrating its benefits. This project will be successful if we can translate attendance to our events to active Cardano community members, be it invested into the Cardano project or an aspiring developer. We hope that these university events would be the catalyst for many to start their crypto journey with Cardano.

This is a new proposal that will be a pilot Cardano Expose and Educate Australian University program we hope to continue with funding in the future

Monthly report

April 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Still reaching out to people in the developer community for workshop hosts. University societies have not followed through with their verbal agreement/ interest having a crypto coding workshop. However still many interested individuals. Am collecting interested people and pivoting into hosting an event open to students of any university. As societies are proving hard to get on board. This maybe the lack of interest due to the current crypto climate and bad press.

Evidence

cardanoatuni.com

Explanation

Adjusted website to reflect mentioned changes. Have participant list but is not public for privacy reasons

March 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

The planned host for our Cardano Plautus coding workshop has become unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances. However, the workshop will still take place, but with dates pushed back, to allow for time to find a new host. In light of this situation, we are currently working to find a new host for the workshop.In

Evidence

http://cardanoatuni.com

Explanation

Workshop details have changed and new host will be replaced as soon as new one is found. Files and supporting links will be added to the site as soon as they have been created.

February 24, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

One of the speakers has become not available and will need to re-develop a workshop relating to cardano development. As universities have started their semester, have contacted the new leadership at the societies. It seems like the best solution will be to conduct a online workshop as there is low interest in crypto development at universities, but there is enough to create one online group. Have begun drafting the online workshop session and plan to host in 2 months

Evidence

http://cardanoatuni.com/

Explanation

Updated event to become online event and outlined details. Most of it has been discussion with possible speakers and hosts. Detailed plans will be published once confirmed.

January 24, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Research on similar offering of speeches and workshops offered to companies. Such as public speaking workshops and technical coding workshops. No responses from universities as still not start of semester 1, starting Feb 20. Trying to find third speaker for more advanced crypto topics or a specific functional programming ada workshop.

Evidence

https://www.cardanoatuni.com/

Explanation

Third speaker will be added to site when confirmed and added more structure to program.

December 20, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Reached out to catering companies for quotes on prices. Food prices are around 3/4 of estimated. Will be reaching out to higher quality / priced vendors to determine if it is worth purchasing higher quality food as the budget allows, or putting it into other items such as mugs, t-shirts not mentioned in the proposal. Additionally scouted locations for different locations. Computer rooms are $100 p/h and lecture halls are $100 p/h. i.e. no difference to estimations. Workshop events will be the most expensive with an estimated $1000 for just the events material cost i.e. without speaker and photographers etc. This a combination of all event types will average the cost out to be within budget.

Evidence

www.cardanoatuni.com

Explanation

Added the different event breakdowns given previously stated findings. Determined there are 3 viable events that universities can choose from. With workshop being the most expensive due to longer venue hire and providing ADA funds for development. However all 3 types should fit within budget and a mixture of all 3 should fix within budget. If all universities pick workshops, options to change to online form to save venue cost can be explored.

November 23, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Attended a university student expo and networked with 2 of their clubs. Game Development Club and Coding club. Have drafted proposal and messed each waiting response. Similar to previous update. Will need to wait until university semester begins before events can go ahead.

Evidence

https://www.cardanoatuni.com/

Explanation

As communications are through private message have not included screenshots. Website has speakers that have agreed to present at future events. Universities will be added after they have confirmed events.

October 23, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Facing problem with scheduling events. Have found that most Universities schedule events for a semester a semester before, therefore the only slots available are for next semester, starting Feb 22. Have scheduled meetings with societies during their planning period for events next semester. Have gone to social events to network with executives of each society to pitch idea. Will be going to an expo for one of the universities about game development to gauge interest about cardano game development, which will be one of the workshops.

Evidence

http://cardanoatuni.com/

Explanation

The site is used at events and when messaging society executives. Due to privacy will not be including messages, but an example response is "I'll definitely bring this up when we start planning our events for 2023 as that can get quite hectic with honoring sponsor commitments."

September 24, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Have sourced and confirmed two speakers with another potential in the works. Reached out to an additional University Society. Problem I am facing is currently it is the University Break and responses are slow. Additional interest in Crypto is low due to Bear market. Still a lot of individuals interested, so am planning to launch a pilot session online for different University students to join. After the break and pilot will attempt to connect with Uni's for face to face events. Preliminary discussions have been done regarding topics for lectures and workshops. Including Cardano 101 PoS vs PoW and Cardano NFT Game Intergration Workshop

Evidence

https://www.cardanoatuni.com

Explanation

Added speakers to website. Not adding speakers that are not confirmed though and in communications with. Discussions for possible topics have been done.

August 22, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Have received feedback from some universities and a lesson learnt was to create more marketing material and resources for them to look at to understand what this project is about. Using this feedback I have commissioned a website and created and linked more surveys to be used by possible attendees (might be creating a online event as some people that have expressed interest are not from the target universities) and also speakers (few have reached out to ask to speak). Still at the stage of getting the word out there, visiting and networking at university events and waiting for responses from speakers and universities.

Evidence

https://www.cardanoatuni.com/

Explanation

Link is to newly created website for marketing and information. With surveys to capture interested participants. Hard to show networking at events and emailing / messaging universities and speakers without disclosing private info.

July 24, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

June 24, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: 11/19/2022

May 21, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: 11/05/2022

Team

Close connections with 3 different Computing related societies.
3 years experience organising university society events.
Co-SPO for DOG Pool with strong relations with other Cardano industry professionals.
Currently working as Software Engineering at global company.

Emerson

Website

https://adadogpool.org/

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