On behalf of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) I am posting this treasury proposal for retroactive funding for the third wave of the Academy. The Polkadot Blockchain Academy at UC Berkeley ran from July 10th to August 10th 2023, in partnership with the Berkeley RDI centre. The program educated 75 students, 55 developer track students and 20 students went through the pilot of the founders track syllabus.
The goal of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy is to help speed the adoption of Polkadot by seeding the ecosystem with educated developers and aspiring Polkadot ecosystem team founders. Currently we offer in person education such as the course held at UC Berkeley, we are also creating online content and have recently made the developer track syllabus materials available for all online.
Below is a link to the proposal in detail.
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16eY9J3ptEyFeM2bLZPnhKzXqPw529k-6R055F6RvUHs/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs">https://docs.google.com/document/d/16eY9J3ptEyFeM2bLZPnhKzXqPw529k-6R055F6RvUHs/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs</a>

Polkadot Blockchain Academy - retroactive funding for wave 3 of the Academy held at UC Berkeley this Summer.

- The Polkadot Blockchain Academy is asking for funding for their third wave of education.
- The academy was held at UC Berkeley from July 10th to August 10th, 2023.
- They educated 75 students, with 55 in the developer track and 20 in the founders track.
- The goal of the academy is to help more people learn about Polkadot and become developers or founders in the ecosystem.
- They have online content available and are working on creating more.

#1921 Polkadot Blockchain Academy - retroactive funding for wave 3 of the Academy held at UC Berkeley this Summer.