Please describe your proposed solution.

My platform will help a lot of students to know about Cardano blockchain because currently, bitcoin seems to be the only blockchain that many students know. My aim is to get more students onboard the cardano ecosystem through my created platform which will be online and face to face to educate them about Cardano. When they get to know about cardano project catalyst, they will think about how to put their ideas into real life projects to benefit themselves and the community.

A lot of engineering students in my school would have access to cardano blockchain knowledge which will help them to be connected to the ecosystem and put their ideas into proposals and also get connected to engineers in the ecosystem.

The platform will get a lot of students from other Universities who will collaborate together and even put up a team to write good proposals relating to development projects that will make cardano blockchain and project catalyst popular among students, thereby scaling high the ecosystem.

Africa students will be able to use Cardano knowledge to write smart contracts and start their own businesses, and benefit the communities and countries at large.

Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

In addressing the challenge, my proposal will get more students to put their ideas into real life projects, which the 'challenge scouted for students' is about getting students involved to eventually have their own businesses and be connected to engineers. There are a lot of students who do not get jobs after school due to lack of connection to the right people for employment. So my platform will help them connect to the cardano ecosystem where they can form collaborations to put their excellent ideas into good proposals for real life projects and self employment. I believe my proposal fits into the challenge and has addressed it appropriately.

What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

The main risk may be instability in the internet connection. To mitigate this risk, I will get an excellent broadband such as internet WIFI which is very fast and can be expensive but reliable to ensure effective connection.

Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

<u>Detailed Plan</u>

The duration of the project will be two months starting from August 1st to September 30th.

The plan is to:

• Promote Cardano project catalyst through weekly interaction online on Zoom.
• Daily social media interaction - whatsapp, twitter, instagram
• Face to face daily interaction with students, telling them about cardano blockchain and benefits in project catalyst.
• Small group bi weekly workshop of about 20 students per workshop. I am targeting 100 students by the end of the two months period.
• Topics to be treated are Blockchain technology, Cardano blockchain and project catalyst and the benefits in project catalyst and how students can play different roles in the ecosystem such as Proposer, PA, vPA, Voter and Challenge Team member.

<u>Key Milestones</u>

<u>August 2022</u> - there will be daily interaction on whatsapp, twitter, instagram with students and I will be sending educational materials about blockchain, cardano and project catalyst and how they can get involved.

Bi weekly zoom meeting on cardano blockchain and processes in catalyst

<u>September 2022</u> - Bi weekly zoom meetings on Cardano blockchain, project catalyst and opportunities in catalyst and how to submit proposals in catalyst. Social media interaction and face to face will continue on daily basis.

Pictures and recording of these meetings will be stored for reporting purposes and references.

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

The total budget requested is $1800 which is broken down below:

Internet data for two months - $700

WIFI Equipment - $300

ADA for onboarded students - $200

Workshop 4 times - $600 @ $150 per workshop

Total - $1800

Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Kingsley Ampofo - student at Accra Technical University studying Secretariship and Management; Cardano Ambassador with passion in spreading Cardano among students; Wada Ghana Volunteer and participant at Wada events. Good at convincing people to join the cardano ecosystem.

Swiss Awuah- Student at Accra Technical University, Cardano Ambassador, Proposer in Fund9, Wada Ghana participant at events.

If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes. If my project brings in more students who become active members in the cardano community, I will have to continue and will need assistance from Catalyst.

Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

1. I will measure the number of students who participate in meetings.
2. Measure how we follow the laid down plan of daily interaction on social media- how many WhatsApp messages in an day in respect of cardano.
3. Measure how many students are interested in asking relevant questions and want to become members.
4. Measure the number of responses at meetings to know their enthusiasm.
5. Measure the rate at which students ask for educational materials for their own study.

What does success for this project look like?

Success will be measured on the following:

1. The number of students that actually were present in all zoom meetings.
2. The number of students that will actually want to become proposers, PAs, Voters and even challenge team members.
3. The number of students who want to fully participate in the ecosystem and also spread the news about Cardano and project catalyst.

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This a new proposal.