[Proposal] NEAR India Guild DAO:June 2021 (Accepted)

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Hi team,

I am submitting a proposal to conduct meetups for University students as well as professors. For the month of June, I have 2 meetups setup/completed and 1 for the month of July. Here are some statistics + materials from the workshops that I conducted. I have also added a plan to funnel the folks from this workshop to the community. Adding that to the proposal as well.

  1. June 2nd - TinkerHub CET.
    College of Trivandrum is an engineering college in India where I held a 1+ hour workshop for students about an Introduction to both NEAR Protocol and Blockchain. As a part of the workshop, I also gave away some NEAR names to the students. We have over 50+ registrations and over 40+ attendees with about 10 questions asked about NEAR and Blockchain Basics during the Q&A.

  2. June 28th - Workshop for professors at NIT Trichy
    National Institute of Tiruchirapalli is a renowned engineering college in India. I was been approached by my professors as a part of the Margadarshi program to deliver a 5-hour session for my group of professors. This session included 2 parts:

  • Conceptual (2.5 hours): Basics of Blockchain, Introduction to NEAR Protocol, A deep-dive into Nightshade, NFTs and NEAR, NEAR Community and Ecosystem
  • Hands-On (2.5): For the hands-on session, I am planning to have them write smart contracts using AssemblyScript, write unit tests and deploy on the local net/test net.

Here is a Youtube recording of the workshop series(You can find my workshop on Day4):

Here is a brief description of the whole series:

The five day Faculty development program Sponsored by AICTE Margdharshan Scheme on “Blockchain and Smart Contract Technology” began on 25th June virtually with participation of academia, researchers and Industrialists. With expertise of eminent people in Block chain from NIT, Trichy, Statistical Institute, IIIT Hyderabad and TCS, a concoction of both the theoretical framework combined with demonstration sessions on Ethereum blockchain, NEAR blockchain and Hyper Ledger made the five-day workshop enlightening and educative to the participants. The coordinators of the workshop were Dr. Brindha M., Dr. Kunwar Singh, and Dr. B. Janet.

There were over 70 professors who registered for this series, out of which there were 40-50 fluctuating attendees for my talk. There were 2-3 questions as the hands-on might have been a bit overwhelming for the attendees but overall, there was good feedback about the workshop.

  1. July 3rd:
    Blockchain: The future of internet?
    The audience of this presentation were members of IEEE Roorkee Subsection. This presentation had 3 parts to it:
  2. Introduction to Blockchain
  3. Introduction to NEAR Protocol
  4. Opportunities in the space of NEAR and Blockchain

There were about 15 attendees in the workshop and there were 5 attendees who won NEAR Names because of their questions.

Ways to funnel the audience from this workshop(some ideas, discussion with guild members in progress):

  • Redirect the attendees to the OWS Discord, so they can take up some tasks which are NEAR related
  • Encourage folks to sign up for Learn NEAR and earn while learning.
  • In discussion with Shreyas(@shreyas ) on creating a “Train the Trainer” program by identifying interested students from these workshops and eventually creating smaller clubs in universities with the help of these students.

At the moment, option1 seems to be most popular from my interaction with students, but hoping to start working with Option 3 soon.

Recording will not be available for Session 1.
Awaiting recording for Session 3.

I would be doing a linkdrop to all the 70+ registered professors using the Linkdrop updated features in the month of August.

I am proposing for 550 NEAR for these 3 workshops.

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