Encode Polkadot Club
Encode Polkadot Club is a long-term programme, funded by the Polkadot Network on-chain treasury, to educate students worldwide about all things Polkadot.
This builds on the success of Polkadot’s participation in Encode Hack Club event which ran from late 2020 to early 2021.
Sign up for the programme here.
Their newest Club will consist of three stages — a Polkadot Education Series, a Polkadot-dedicated hackathon and a follow-up accelerator.
Introducing Polkadot Educate
The purpose of Polkadot Educate series is to teach students about blockchain through the lens of Polkadot. Over 100+ university blockchain societies and students from all corners of the globe will be participating in this series.
Events:
Thursday 8th July — Intro to Blockchain
Thursday 15th July — Intro to Polkadot
Thursday 22nd July — Technical Overview of Polkadot
Thursday 29th July — Introduction to Substrate
Thursday 5th August — Parachains
Thursday 12th August — Non-technical Involvement in Polkadot
Thursday 19th August — Demonstrations of Products
Thursday 26th August — Applications to Polkadot in Society
All events take place at 5:30pm GMT+1 unless otherwise stated.
Introducing the Polkadot Hackathon
They will be running a dedicated 10-week Polkadot Hackathon beginning in September 2021. This will be similar to previous hackathons, however, the focus of the hackathon will be Polkadot, its network and overall ecosystem.
Introducing the Polkadot Accelerator
Following the Polkadot Hackathon, projects will be able to apply for the Polkadot Accelerator. Around 10 projects will be accepted into this exclusive program, which lasts 10 weeks and consists of 1-on-1 coaching and support from both Polkadot and Encode.
The aim of the Accelerator is to support hackathon and early-stage projects to become fully-fledged startups. More details on the Polkadot Hackathon and Accelerator will be released following the Educate series.
What is Encode Club?
The purpose of Encode is to educate, support and catalyse the emergence of new talent into the blockchain space. They work across 100 universities worldwide, running hackathons, accelerators, education series as well as investing and recruiting the best to join leading blockchain companies.
What is Polkadot?
Polkadot is an open-source network protocol that allows arbitrary data — not just tokens — to be transferred across blockchains. It’s built to connect private and consortium chains, public and permissionless networks, oracles, and future technologies that are yet to be created.
Polkadot facilitates a decentralized internet where independent blockchains can exchange information and transactions in a trustless way via the Polkadot relay chain.
📰 INFO:
https://medium.com/encode-club/announcing-the-encode-polkadot-club-cfea36423d24
