**Requested Allocation:** $50,000 (hackathon for Polkadot)

**Date: July 2-3, 2022**

*DOT amount calculated via EMA on 9 June 2022 at GMT+0 1400hrs: 1 DOT ~ USD$10.58. USD$50,000 ~ 4725.8979 DOT

**Proponent:** EasyA 5FQqvRHgBEUZG17qs9cNFH6ZSSVyAwhb7D6dKjGWb8xgKFkP

**Short Description:** EasyA is organising a hackathon for students to raise awareness of the Polkadot ecosystem among the developers of tomorrow. Our event will attract students with or without prior coding knowledge and support them so that they can hit the ground running. We aim to get 200 new students developing on Polkadot through this hackathon.

**Objectives:**

- Produce 25 new projects on Polkadot by end of hackathon

- Create a highly-vocal, trained student base who will become powerful advocates for Polkadot as they mature

- Engage with teachers/professors to show them what their students could be building on Polkadot and how they could easily fit it into their curriculum

- Increase awareness and adoption of Polkadot

- Introduce individuals to programming on Polkadot

**See the proposal link** [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiSxoItunp2rrKxXhrJVVg4ANohRwIdLUiELK2Hp448/edit?usp=sharing)!

Smoldot is a lightweight client software for connecting to the Polkadot blockchain's peer-to-peer network. Its purpose is to eliminate the need for trusted servers, enhancing security and reducing maintenance costs. Developed solely by Pierre Krieger, a Polkadot technical fellowship member, Smoldot aims to conform to the Polkadot protocol, provide a good user experience, improve infrastructure, and potentially build a new full node implementation. Quarterly milestones include general maintenance, periodic networking key rotation, implementing new JSON-RPC APIs for better network visualization, and enabling warp syncing for the full node. Pierre Krieger's track record in open-source projects and expertise in Polkadot development underscore Smoldot's high reliability.

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- EasyA is requesting $50,000 (equivalent to 4725.8979 DOT) for a 2-day hackathon to raise awareness of the Polkadot ecosystem among student developers
- The event aims to have 25 new projects built on Polkadot at the end, with the additional objective of increasing awareness and adoption of Polkadot and introducing individuals to programming on Polkadot

#215 Milestone 1 Proposal: Polkadot Hackathon for 200 Students and Educators

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