Challenge & Scouted for Students🎓
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Student entrepreneurs have exciting business ideas and motivations to start a business, but they lack the resources to implement them. In particular, the shortage of development funds and engineers is serious, and students have few opportunities to get these resources. However, Catalysts are easier to raise money than VCs(Venture Capital) and Business Contests, and also can connect globally with engineers in this community. However, the number of proposals to Catalysts is increasing rapidly, and the community does not easily notice small-scale proposals from students. In addition, it is difficult to set a clear Roadmap while resources are scarce and to get a high evaluation from CA(Community Advisor).
Therefore, to make it easier for the community to recognize new ideas from students, we will establish a new Category exclusively for students. In addition, instead of the roadmap being ambiguous, we set a budget limit of $ 5,000. By doing so, many students can experience funding from Catalyst. In continued participation in Catalyst, funding experience, even on a small scale, is evaluated by the community. Therefore, it is important to set a budget limit.
The Category Goal is to encourage engineers to scout students who are evaluated by the community and create a new team to join the next Fund with a clear Roadmap. This is a benefit for both students and engineers to raise a large salary for engineers through Catalyst rather than from VCs or Banks.
Team & Relevant experience
・Issa Ichikawa (Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cardano_ISSA))
21-year-old/Junior at Waseda University in Japan/Student entrepreneur/Catalyst Fund6 raiser/Catalyst CA/Catalyst Fund6 Challenge Team Member (Connecting Japan Community)
・YUTA (Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuta_cryptox))
Cardano Ambassador/SPO/Japan representative of Eastern Town Hall Meeting/Catalyst Fund2,6,7 raiser/Catalyst CA/Catalyst Fund6 Challenge Team Member (Connecting Japan Community)
**Why is it important? **
Most student entrepreneurs are suffering from resource shortages, especially in funding and engineer recruitment.
How does success looks like?
By setting up a student category and increasing the exposure of their ideas, they can expect easier funding and scouted from engineers.
Key Metrics to measure
・Number of proposals for this category
・Number of applause and comments from the community
・Number of proposals that could be collaborated with other engineers
・Number of proposals that participated in the next fund
Youth Block Resource Development
Quick Pitch
$5,000
Requested
Solution: Adapt existing resources and develop tailor made educational resources for youth learners. As part of a structured educational content for youth bridging them into the Cardano community.
Virtual Assistant
$4,750
Requested
Solution: Launch a training program to target at least 100 female students, graduates, or young entrepreneurs to become virtual assistants in Project catalyst.
UPDEV CHALLENGE
$7,000
Received
$7,000
Requested
Solution: Celebrating the innovation of young Congolese entrepreneurs by organizing a competition which rewards the 3 best innovative ideas in NTICs, especially in Cardano Blockchain.
University Design Team
$5,000
Received
$5,000
Requested
Solution: We will create a Queen's Blockchain Design Team where students collaborate on Cardano Projects.
We will create and make publicly available onboarding & tutorial videos to help students new to Cardano.
Thesis on Catalyst Decentralized VC
$3,000
Requested
Solution: Write a Masters thesis (MSc Finance) on Catalyst as a decentralized VC solution ideally suited for developing country entrepreneurs, which can be used to divulge the platform in academic environments.
Student Startup escrow (SSE)
$5,000
Requested
Solution: Make a smart escrow that promotes collaboration and authenticity when buying and selling goods. Which protects the consumer if the producer ever attempts to be malicious.
Student and engineers community
$13,500
Requested
Solution: Our solution will be a web platform where students will find themselves in a community and will be able to share their ideas, raise funds and join forces with engineers from all over the world.
OxBAT Conference Oxford University
$11,820
Requested
Solution: Organisation of OxBAT, an academic cross-chain NFT conference at the University of Oxford, that brings together students, academics, and industry experts from different fields in an open forum.
Outreach/Education Paraguay
$5,000
Requested
Solution: Hold workshops for students who are already being educated on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology through a University Workshop with incentivized learning methodology
Outreach/Education Ecuador
$5,000
Requested
Solution: Hold workshops for students who are already being educated on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology through a University Workshop with incentivized learning methodology
Outreach, Education & Collaboration
$4,252
Received
$4,870
Requested
Solution: Workshops for university students, civil society, the private sector, and municipal bodies in Vienna that teach blockchain fundamentals and foster the co-creation of sustainable use cases
Onboard Tanzania Universities
$4,900
Requested
Solution: Onboard Tanzania University Students Network. Aims to prepare university students towards achieving soft skills prior to employment as well as financial support and capital sources.
Mini Proposal Workshops
$5,000
Received
$5,000
Requested
Solution: Implement workshops that help participants create a proposal and effectively communicate the objective to voters
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Mentoring Program
$3,000
Requested
Solution: A Program where funded Proposers can be matched up with qualified Mentors. To Exchange Information and Experience
International students for Cardano
$4,160
Received
$4,160
Requested
Solution: Teach students about Cardano and Catalyst, collect business ideas and share them with Cardano engineers to try and establish collaborations
Fund Winner Marketing Logos
$5,000
Received
$5,000
Requested
Solution: Create logos and visuals for selected reccuring categories and overall funds to allow winners to showcase their success, and help spread awareness of the Catalyst ecoystem.
Establish Coin Media
$4,500
Requested
Solution: Establish Coin Media and build a strong student audience base whilst developing preparedness among the younger generation for interest in blockchain, web 3, and the digital future.
Digitalization of town halls
$5,000
Requested
Solution: Currently in Senegal for a simple reproduction of a birth certificate at the level of any municipality you will stay at least more than 24 hours without even having it sometimes more.
Create Local/Online Job Fair System
$17,500
Requested
Solution: Solution
On our job center platform we will create a section dedicated to students. This will be a spot for young, determined people to find incredible opportunities within the Cardano ecosystem.
Catalyst tournament
$5,000
Received
$5,000
Requested
Solution: Introduce the business students to Catalyst, teach them about the project and the challenges, create a tournament for them to start writing ideas
Catalyst for MBA Students.
$5,000
Requested
Solution: To introduce Project Catalyst to student entrepreneurs especially graduate students by educating and training on they leverage the funding and resources in Catalyst to support their ideas or startups.
Cardano Tunisia
$5,000
Received
$5,000
Requested
Solution: To create the first educational online platform that provides Arabic content about Blockchain and Cardano, which is further dedicated to motivated students and future entrepreneurs.
Cardano Student Learning Platform
$1,800
Received
$1,800
Requested
Solution: I want to create a platform for University students, particularly in my school(ATU), to educate them about Cardano blockchain and project catalyst so that those with great ideas can access benefits.
Cardano Peer Education
$5,000
Received
$5,000
Requested
Solution: To introduce Project Catalyst to Business and Engineering Students and to mentor and examine their business projects and innovative ideas and assisting them to submit via Project Catalyst.
