Achievement and Tractions:

- Organized one of the biggest web 3 conferences in Africa powered by Near Protocol. We had over 500+ attendees consisting of blockchain & web 3 enthusiasts, traditional developers, creative builders, and so on. Kindly check video: https://youtu.be/j5m8PW4V9g0

- We organized Web fusion Lagos hackathon - A 4 day in person hackathon for developers building solutions that tackle real life challenges using blockchain technology. Kindly check out projects built from this hackathon:

1.https://taikai.network/hackbox/hackathons/webfusionlagos/projects

2. Event highlight: https://twitter.com/dappsoverapps/status/1742950910806880600?s=46

- We organized a workshop for decentralized application training for over 400+ web 3 enthusiasts and traditional developers. See video clips from the workshop below:

1. https://youtu.be/L-Rz9MSYS9M

2. https://youtu.be/THsM0hp9R7o

- Organized the largest creative conference in Africa themed “ Paint & Create with Near BOS” - a gathering of creators, developers and project founders learning basics of web3. https://gov.near.org/t/nearxart-nov-december-report/37567

-  We organized a start-up pitch competition to encourage builders to integrate blockchain technology to their businesses and projects. https://twitter.com/dappsoverapps/status/1692185380718538917?s=46

- Built a running database of over 1,300+ developers and non-developers in Africa.

- Partnered with Near, Solana, Binance Academy, Creativedao, DiscoverBOS, Celotribe, Pontys, Youngfreshdao, Opencrypt, Nearxart, Ophir institute, Afen blockchain, Hackbox, Inside D'app, and many more to facilitate thorough blockchain and web 3 onboarding.

-  Venue - $800: This will cover the cost for the space for the workshop.

- Bounty: $500: This bounty will be covered for incentives and prizes that will be given to participants depending on tasks completed, assignments and best workshop student.

-  Refreshment: $500: This will cover the cost of food and drink for over 100+ workshop participants.

-  Educators: $1,000: This will cover a welfare package and rewards for 2 - 4 blockchain tutors and developers.

- Photography: $500

- Promotion: $500

Total: $3,800 * 3 cities = $11,400

Logistics, Accommodation and miscellaneous: $600

Hackathon Prize: $3,000: We will set up a hackathon for project founders and developers in this workshop to collaborate and build their innovative solutions on Stellar with Soroban. This hackathon will involve building or integrating projects to Stellar blockchain. Kindly note that this price can be adjusted based on what SCF team think is most presentable.

Core Team: 1,000 * 3 = $3,000: This will cover reward for core team members and other subordinates in the program

99.9% of 35,050 developers in Canada don't know Stellar and its developer friendly blockchain infrastructure. Stellar Network do not have a presence in Canada. We are solving the problem of lack of visibility for Stellar Network. We intend to kickstart this initiative by organizing workshops and hackathon in various Provinces in Canada, starting with Saskatchewan. We will the following cities but not limited to:

1. Saskatoon

2. Prince Albert

3. Regina

Our Objectives

• Train the present and next generation of developers on how to smart contract development using Soroban.
• Onboard web 2 developers and projects to Stellar.
• Launch new projects on Stellar network.
• Support projects from this workshop up to main-net and MVP stage.

• Train a minimum of 160 individuals on Soroban basics and how to build on the blockchain using Soroban SDK.
• Organize weekly in person intensive workshops about Stellar's network and its attributes in 3 major cities in Saskatchewan, Canada.
• Organize a hackathon amongst developers and project founders in 3 major cities in Saskatchewan, Canada.
• 24 hours support for participants of our workshop.
• Participants from the workshop will build & launch at least 3 projects on Stellar network using Soroban.
• Create tailored curriculum for different workshop training according to participants' level of expertise.
• Establish Soroban blockchain club in Provinces in Canada.
• Onboard 50+ web 2 developers to Stellar ecosystem.
• Continuous support on how to navigate Stellar network for participants of this program after the completion of this project.

Abdulkareeem Oyeneye: A web 3 advocate with 37 months experience in blockchain network development and community building. He has worked with Near protocol and helped them onboard over 1,500+ active users and facilitated wallet and on chain transactions.

He founded a community; Nearxart, which focuses on onboarding creative to web 3 and charitable contributions via the use of blockchain technology and web 3 tools.

His passion for a decentralized world made him start the Dapps Over Apps movement that aims to onboard traditional developers and web 2 builder to build blockchain infrastructure.

Bimpe Wosilat: She is a climate change enthusiast with a degree in Agriculture, master’s in plant sciences; she is focused on farming and regenerative practices that helps promote the reduction of greenhouse gas and climate change emissions.

she has been involved in onboarding women into web 3. She has guided and trained women in different continent about web 3 education, blockchain technology and NFTs

Emmanuel Ugwu is procicient in web Scraping, Web Automation, Backend Development, DevOps. He also has experience in the following: Python (3 years+ experience), Typescript (3 months+ experience), Javascript (2 year+ experience) Frameworks: Django(2 years+ experience), Django Rest Framework (2 years+ experience), Selenium(6 months+ experience), Beautiful soup(6 months+ experience), FastAPI(1 year+ experience), React JS(1 year+ experience),Nodejs(1 year+ experience), NestJs( 3months+ experience). Databases: MongoDB(3 months+ experience), PostgreSQL(1 year+ experience), SQlite(2 years+ experience) Tools: Anaconda(2 years+ experience), Visual Studio Code(2 years+ experience)