Devcon VI Scholars: Growing the Infinite Garden

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) exists to assistance the Ethereum ecosystem thrive, and determination are inactive galore discoveries to beryllium made astir what Ethereum tin bash for the world. That's wherefore we enactment individuals that person the imaginable to unlock parts of Ethereum's communicative that are inactive unwritten.

The Devcon Scholars Program provided enactment to marque Devcon much accessible for 50 individuals whom we believed to person the imaginable to marque a affirmative interaction connected Ethereum and its community, but who were incapable to be without fiscal assistance.

The Program

We chose individuals whose beingness would enrich Devcon and the ecosystem. Scholars were selected based connected their erstwhile acquisition and their imaginativeness for contributing to Ethereum.

Scholars were provided with programming and resources to hole them for Devcon, specified arsenic “Learning Sessions” with leaders successful the Ethereum community. During Devcon, Scholars created their ain acquisition by choosing the talks and events they wanted to attend, immoderate of which you tin larn much astir below.

Of the cohort, 50% were from Latin America. Additionally, 70% of Scholars attended the ETHBogota hackathon and galore of them won prizes.

Meet The Scholars

Meet 5 of the Devcon Scholars and larn astir their experience!

Yasmin

Yasmin is an economist with Peru’s Ministry of Education. She wants to make applications for web3 successful the nationalist sector.

Read Yasmin’s reflection from the program: How blockchain tin lick existent problems successful nationalist management.

Harry

Harry is simply a biochemist from the UK funny successful the improvement of technological infrastructure successful web3 (DeSci).

Read Harry’s reflections connected the program: A Miro committee that maps his experience.

Mashal

Mashal describes herself arsenic a “techie turned media entrepreneur”. She is from Pakistan, wherever she built The Tempest, a planetary media company.

Read Mashal’s reflections connected the program: Interviews with different Devcon VI Scholars.

Anya

Anya is simply a 17-year-old blockchain researcher and developer from Canada. She is presently researching cryptographic automation and SMS-based blockchain implementations.

Read Anya’s reflections connected the program: Ideas from Devcon and the aboriginal of crypto.

Eason

Eason is simply a self-taught developer from Malaysia funny successful the aboriginal of utility-backed NFTs.

Read Eason’s reflections connected the program: What Devcon meant to him.

To Infinity and Beyond

Our imaginativeness for the Devcon Scholars programme was to works caller seeds successful the Infinite Garden: to enactment builders contributing to the Ethereum ecosystem crossed geographies and disciplines. We surveyed Scholars to cod feedback connected the program, and pursuing their clip successful Bogotá, participants present consciousness well-equipped to marque invaluable contributions to Ethereum and its future.

With this cohort, we are assured their interaction volition beryllium felt crossed the ecosystem present and for years to come. This is conscionable the beginning.

Here’s to the aboriginal we volition physique together! 🦄