by 0xb89ba583541aeba63b8553d512af24d4b4aa1373 (Swordpony)
Should the following $20,000 grant in the Sponsorship category be approved?
Abstract
We’re organizing the Bridg3 metaverse hackathon in Finland to help thousands of students learn what the Metaverse could mean for their future, and start building their own future. Students would love to have a dedicated Decentraland challenge encouraging them to build an open-source, virtual 3D University Campus to simulate how the future of learning could be done in the Metaverse. Transforming the entire learning experience.
The Good Cartel is the leading Web3 educator in Finland providing a free Web3 Masterclass with credit points. With thousands of students enrolled, it’s now time to give students the tools to start building. We have experience organizing NASA hackathons so the experience will be top-notch and memorable.
Grant size
20,000 USD
Project duration
2 months
Beneficiary address
0xB89ba583541aEba63B8553D512af24d4B4AA1373
Email address
sointu@blocklane.eu
Description
We feel Decentraland’s mission and open source mentality fit our mission perfectly, providing all students in Finland free access to start testing ideas and building within the Metaverse. It is crucial to have an open platform but also we feel the future of learning should happen in the Metaverse. Current solutions are not open and students cannot build on top of them. We want to enable students to define what, where and how their future learning journeys look like.
Decentraland Worlds Beta seems like a perfect fit for this challenge. Allowing thousands of students in Finland to start creating their own 3D virtual learning space across multiple cities. Connecting campuses and their communities. Have it available at any time for testing ideas and building demos. Yet, as this is a 1-month long hackathon process, we aim for the Virtual Campus to stay open and available for all students even after the hackathon. Giving students the power of defining the future of education but also university researchers a continuous stream of data, ideas and innovation.
Decentraland Worlds Beta will help students interact with each other, even at a distance. It provides instant collaboration opportunities between learners, teachers, researchers, and societal actors. In the future it could even be considered a National Virtual Campus where challenges can be solved together, offering new kinds of opportunities for skills and competence development.
Other hackathon partners include for example the City of Tampere and YLE, The National Broadcasting Company of Finland. Hackathon finals will be held during the Tampere Smart City Week event with a dedicated Metaverse track at the brand-new Nokia Arena. We’re expecting 2 800+ guests from over 20+ countries across Europe. Smart City Week audience is not your typical crypto degens but Web2 enterprises and city officials eager to learn what the Metaverse is and could mean for their future. We’ll have keynotes like Dr. Marwan Alzarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC) and Marja Konttinen from Decentraland has preliminarily accepted our keynote request to showcase the inspiring Decentraland origin story. Having YLE as a partner will enable free nationwide media coverage to showcase Decentraland Worlds and what the students can build when given free rain and open-source tools. But also act as an inspiration to the Web2 audience.
TampereES is the hackathon co-organizer. Given that they are students, we can make sure their voices are heard and the hackathon is being built by the students for the students. And not aiming for profit but impact and long-lasting results. We believe this will also bring new builders and a ready student community to Decentraland.
The Hackathon website will be released shortly at bridg3.co.
More info:
The Good Cartel https://www.goodcartel.xyz/
TampereES https://tamperees.com/
Tampere Smart City Week https://www.tscec.fi/en/
Roadmap and milestones
We’ve set a clear hackathon timeline that goes like this:
- April - Team building support on Discord and IRL matchmaking event. 60 teams minimum participating.
- May 5th - Bridg3 hackathon kick-off revealing challenges and mentors. Keynotes (streamed online) and mentoring (IRL).
- Mentoring continues online on The Good Cartel Discord server.
- May 16 - Mid-way checkpoint. Keynotes (streamed online) and mentoring (IRL).
- May 30-31st - Final check point. Mentoring IRL and pitching training (hybrid).
- June 4th - 6th - Open community voting on the top 10 finalists.
- June 6th - Bridg3 track at Tampere Smart City Week, hackathon finals, announcing the winners and after party
- Hackathon solutions can and will be open and developed further with the help of mentors