Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA) has been providing Blockchain training and certification globally since 2017. BTA is seeking to create a Substrate-specific course that will allow developers to learn how to effectively build on Polkadot. The partnership provides new developers from the Web2 space to learn Polkdadot technology and increase developer activity within the Polkadot ecosystem.

Course Overview:

In this course students will learn how the Polkadot platform works, from an understanding of the governance and treasury process to hands-on lab environments for writing code. Technologies covered in this course are Polkadotjs, Substrate, WASMI, libp2p and Rust and more. Whether students want to add to their blockchain skills for career prospects or want to learn how to build a blockchain solution that has ability to communicate with multiple blockchains into a single network, this course will be the ideal fit.

This Substrate-specific training course, 20 hours in length, which will be available at no cost on the BTA website for any interested students to enroll into.

Certification

An exam for certification will be available at the end of the training course. Getting certified will demonstrate students have the skills needed to build applications and solutions on Polkadot.

Link to proposal: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q7VdsqyLHFThvv2dTfOSfYovfRkfEj9LIrOGlySmWL8/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q7VdsqyLHFThvv2dTfOSfYovfRkfEj9LIrOGlySmWL8/edit?usp=sharing)

Approve a proposal. At a later time, the proposal will be allocated to the beneficiary
and the original deposit will be returned.

May only be called from `T::ApproveOrigin`.

# <weight>
- Complexity: O(1).
- DbReads: `Proposals`, `Approvals`
- DbWrite: `Approvals`
# </weight>

- Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA) wants to create a course to teach developers how to build on Polkadot.
- The course will cover topics like governance, writing code, and using technologies like Polkadotjs, Substrate, WASMI, libp2p, and Rust.
- The course will be 20 hours long and available for free on the BTA website.
- There will be a certification exam at the end of the course.
- Getting certified will show that students have the skills to build on Polkadot.

#244 Substrate Training Course and Certification