For a month, Polkadot and the Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA IALAB), Argentina, will bring together engineers and developers from around the world to work on the future of Web3, they informed Cointelegraph en Español in a statement.
Starting on January 10 and for a whole month, the University of Buenos Aires will host an event for the future of Web3. Is about “Polkadot Blockchain Academy“, a face-to-face educational program which addresses the conceptual foundations and practical application of blockchain technology, using Polkadot and Substrate tools.
The Polkadot Blockchain Academy had its beginnings in Cambridge and now he arrived in Argentina. It was founded in 2022 by Gavin Wood and arises with the aim of training engineers talented in Web3.
Pauline Cohen Vorms, Director of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy explained: “The Academy is intended for all talented developers, even those with no previous blockchain experience, and will provide them with very strong training and the tools to make them bold.“. He further added: “The academy fosters a strong community of like-minded people who support each other, who are starting new projects and contributing to further education within the ecosystem.”.
The study plan includes a large number of disciplines: economics, governance, game theory, cryptography, peer-based and distributed network systems, system design, and APIs, among many others. “All this study design is planned so that developers of the Web2 or traditional ecosystem can attend the Academy and when they leave they have the necessary tools to build within the vast Blockchain ecosystem.” they announced in the statement.
After a first edition in Cambridge, Polkadot targeted Latin America, specifically Argentina for the realization of this second edition of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy, This was motivated by the great potential that they saw in the region to build on Blockchain technology and consequently on Polkadot.
Given this potential, the team behind “Polkadot Blockchain Academy” has set out to support the local developer community by bringing the program, to which they responded with interest, submitting more than 750 applications to access the month of training prepared. However, given the impossibility of giving access to such a high number of requests for logistical reasons, it was decided to organize additional workshops and side events together with the Polkadot community in the region.
From Polkadot Hub and the community Three side events were also organized so that developers and members of the ecosystem can share presentations from referents of the Polkadot ecosystem and Web3.
The first was on Thursday, January 12 at the “Darwin spacein Palermo. It was in charge of Raúl Romanutti, a member of the Polkadot Council. It was a talk about Community Treasury and the financing tools that the Polkadot ecosystem has, so that projects and teams can build on Web3.
On Tuesday, January 31Robert Habermeier, Co-Founder of Polkadot and Shawn Tabrizi, Core Developer of Parity Technologies, will talk about the future of the network in interoperability in blockchains through XCM. The appointment is at 7:00 p.m. at Madero Walk.
By last, On Wednesday, February 8, there will be a workshop on “ink”, the language for writing Smart Contracts in Rust and deploy them in the Polkadot ecosystem. This workshop is ideally designed for developers, since will be taught entirely in Spanish, and will be in charge of Héctor Bulgarini and Ricardo Rius, both developers from Parity Technologies. The meeting will be inarea three”, in Palermo, at 5:00 p.m.
“For those who participate in the three events, there will be special benefits: access to free Rust, Substrate and Ink courses, which will be taught on Polkadot Hub, and more proposals to be announced later.”, they announced from the Academy.
Registration for these 3 Side Events is free. The links to register will be published on the page of “polkadotespanol” and shared through their social networks. “Spaces are limited to academy participants, teams and projects seeking funding, and members of the Web3 ecosystem community.” they explained in the statement.
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