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And now, due to recent govt. partnerships, we have more than 3000 students registered.  \n\nWe seek funding to help resource this growth and cater to the huge demand we see for students seeking accessible blockchain education, future career opportunities and financial freedom and equality. \n\nGrant support to cover basic operations while we work to secure sponsor partnerships will be invaluable to advancing blockchain education within mainstream education, first here in Abuja, Nigeria and from then to the rest of the country.\nCHALLENGES \n\n\nEducation: Students lack adequate basic blockchain education at the grassroots level\nUnemployment: limited career paths due to Nigeria\u2019s high unemployment rate\nLimited Opportunity: limited ways to explore Blockchain via the current education system\nFinancial: over 10% of the global population in extreme poverty live in Nigeria\nAccessibility: Limited access to the right tools and information to make engagement fast and easy  \n\n\nSTRATEGY & SOLUTIONS \n\nI-Learn the Blocks\n\n\nOur blockchain curriculum empowers students to actively engage with web3 technology and ecosystems. We believe open-source solutions can level the global playing field, enabling students globally to innovate, and we are positioning KBM Labs to guide our students towards this future by delivering free online training and onsite classes.\n\nWe curate curriculum content in collaboration with sponsors and partners' projects, networking within and outside the ecosystem. Collaboration is part and parcel of the curriculum, as we encourage students and our community to learn, engage and contribute to protocols and projects. \n\nSuccess to Date: Six of our Cohort 1 (2021) participants proceeded to the intermediate and master classes and three of them are now core contributors at two Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO). \n\nWe have now trained over 80 students, with 10 graduates currently working with different blockchain companies, functioning in different capacities, and steadily building their careers.\n\nSome of our graduates are back as volunteers in KBM and have also enrolled siblings, creating a chain of financial freedom and emancipation among these young adults.\nCohort Training Photos \n\n\n\nApplied Learning: KBM DAO\n\nKBM DAO https://client.aragon.org/#/knowtheblocksmaven.aragonid.eth (testnet) enables students to apply the knowledge gained through I-Learn the Blocks to\n\n- Interact with smart contracts on a blockchain\n- Understand the challenges of a decentralized autonomous organization  \n- Participate in decentralize decision-making processes\n\n\nIn the long term, through applied learning, we hope to build a DAO-native culture and active governance participation in the next generation. \n\nSuccess to Date: Students and the community have created a platform where questions are asked, feedback and improvements are made and within which learning, knowledge sharing and collaboration is flourishing.\n\nCommunity Collaboration & Partnerships\n\nAs an extension of our education strategy, we are intentional about developing collaborative opportunities and establishing mutually beneficial connections by leveraging the power of our growing community Many ecosystem projects need to build a community to solve the cold start problem and advance service, product or network strategy, and we work to connect teams that align with our values, to create win: win partnerships that strengthen each others communities.\n\nSuccess to Date: We currently have a community of over 5000 active web3 users, learning and engaging with numerous blockchain ecosystems. Our community consists of current students, graduates and international exchange students and global web3 enthusiasts.\n\nWe have partnered with Metaversiity Florida, which offers intermediate and advanced classes on Metaverse and requires participants to go through our basic classes. \n\nIn 2023 KBM was granted access by the FCT Education Board to the Senior High Schools in Abuja (capital of Nigeria) to establish blockchain clubs piloting the I-Learn the Blocks program with 20 Schools. \n\nThis partnership has seen our course registrations skyrocket with a database of over 3000 students seeking to discover the opportunities that Web3 brings. \n", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project fit into the Community & Education round eligibility criteria? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": " We currently have a community of over 5000 active web3 users, learning and engaging with numerous blockchain ecosystems. Our community consists of current students, graduates and international exchange students and global web3 enthusiasts.\n\nWe have partnered with Metaversiity Florida, which offers intermediate and advanced classes on Metaverse and requires participants to go through our basic classes. \n\nIn 2023 KBM was granted access by the Nigerian Government through the FCT Education Board to the Senior High Schools in Abuja (capital of Nigeria) to establish blockchain clubs piloting the I-Learn the Blocks program with 20 Schools with each school having over 2500 population. \n\nThis partnership has seen our course registrations skyrocket with a database of over 3000 students seeking to discover the opportunities that Web3 brings. We seek funding to secure the resources needed to deliver this opportunity to students.", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are also partnering with ingenious projects like the I read to live Initiative https://ireadtolive.org/ , tech up girls by the TTi foundation https://ireadtolive.org/ in Nigeria and  Africa at large to teach blockchain technology at different level of knowledge and breaking the barrier of entry into the Web3 ecosystem.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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We have graduated over 80 students from our basic and intermediate blockchain courses. And now due to recent partnerships, more than 3000 students registered. We seek funding to help resource this huge growth and cater to the massive demand we see for students seeking accessible blockchain education, future career opportunities and  financial freedom and equality.\n\nSTRATEGY & SOLUTIONS \n\n*      I-Learn the Blocks\n\nOur blockchain curriculum  empowers students to actively engage with web3 technology and ecosystems. We believe open-source solutions can level the global playing field enabling students globally to innovate and we are positioning KBM Labs to guide our students towards this future by delivering free online training and onsite classes.\n\nWe curate curriculum content in collaboration with sponsors and partners project, networking within and outside the ecosystem. Collaboration is part and parcel of the curriculum, as we encourage students and our community to learn, engage and contribute to protocols and projects. \n\nSuccess to Date: Six of our pilot Cohort 1 (2021) participants proceeded to the intermediate and master classes and three of them are now core contributors at two Decentralized Autonomous organizations (DAO). \n\nWe have now trained over 80 students with 10 graduates currently working with different blockchain companies, functioning at different capacity, steadily building their careers.\n\nJust recently, KBM was granted access by the FCT Education Board to the Senior High Schools in Abuja (capital of Nigeria) to establish blockchain clubs piloting the I-Learn the Blocks program with 20 Schools. \n\nThis partnership has seen our course registrations skyrocket with a database of over 3000 students seeking opportunity to discover the opportunities that Web3 brings. \nSome of our graduates are back as volunteers in KBM and have also enrolled siblings, creating a chain of financial freedom and emancipation among these young adults.\n\n*      Applied Learning: KBM DAO\n\nKBMDAO enables student to apply the knowledge gained through I-Learn the Blocks to\n\n- Interact with smart contracts on a blockchain\n- Understand the challenges of decentralized autonomous organization  \n- Participate in decentralize decision making processes\n\nIn the long term, through applied learning we hope to build a DAO Native culture and active governance participation in the next generation. \n\nSuccess to Date: Students and community have created a platform where questions are asked, feedback and improvements made and upon which learning, knowledge sharing and collaboration is flourishing.\n\n*     Community Collaboration & Partnerships\n\nAs a community we are intentional about developing collaborative opportunities and establishing mutually beneficial connections as an extension of our education strategy. By leveraging the power of community we further pave the way for realizing our collective vision. There is a need for many ecosystem projects to build community to solve the cold start problem and advance service, product or network strategy, and we work to connect teams that align with our values.\n\nSuccess to Date: We currently have a community of over 5000 active Web3 users, learning and engaging with numerous blockchain ecosystems. Our community consists of current students, graduates and  international exchange students and global web3 enthusiasts.\nWe have partnered with Metaversiity Florida which offer intermediate and advanced classes on Metaverse and require participants to go through our basic classes. \n\nRISKS\n\nKBM is a public good service run primarily on personal savings, love and volunteering (to date) we are exposed to risks concerning government policy and constrained by limited funding. It is only now due to unexpected scale of recent growth that we encounter serious resourcing risk and need to secure funding in order to meet student demand to deliver quality Web3 education and training facilities, tools, educators and community logistics\n\nWe seek funding to secure the resources needed to deliver this opportunity for students that has come to find KBM as a great platform to explore, learn and engage with the Web3 ecosystem.\n\nWe are grateful for that ONE dollar that will make a huge impact and difference in the life of that young adult in their journey of self discovery and development in the Web3 ecosystem. \n\nFor testimonials on past students, visit our website\n\nhttps://www.knowtheblocksmaven.com.ng/\n\nThank you\n\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "knowtheblocks_"}, "recipient": "0x46DCeaf588C5a1A1759935dc07824ffA9f9a4891"}}