The Campus Blockchain Hackathon is aimed at engaging the academic community on the potentials of Blockchain Technology for national development, the unique role of academic institutions, and more importantly, the need to incorporate it into our academic curriculum.
Kwara State University Campus Blockchain Hackathon attracted a lot of students from the University. The students in attendance included computer science students and entrepreneurs that are aspiring to venture into the blockchain space. Some of the students came prepared for the hackathon, but the majority of them do not know anything about blockchain technology. Also in attendance were students from other Institutions in Kwara State such as Kwara State Polytechnic and the University of Illorin, Nigeria.
The first day of the Campus Blockchain Hackathon is the symposium aimed at educating the University students about blockchain technology.
One the first day of the KWASU Blockchain Hackathon, the ICT Director for Kwara State University, Mr Teslim Balogun attended the hackathon and gave the opening speech. His speech was very inspiring, he encouraged the students to take the events of the hackathon seriously as blockchain technology is the future.
He commended the efforts of the organizers of the hackathon and stated that such an event should take place in a larger lecture theater to attract more population and that lecturers should be a part of such a symposium so that they too can benefit from knowledge about blockchain technology.
The Speakers for the day included Mr Kayode Babarinde (Programme Coordinator of the KWASU Campus Blockchain), Mr Adebayo Adebajo(Community Manager at Jelurida), Mr Kamaldeen Yusuf Kehinde(Community Organiser at Kwarabuild) and Mr Kaka Toritseju(EOS Nation Ambassador).
Mr. Kaka Toritseju gave an extensive talk about EOS and about applications that students can use to earn cryptocurrency while in school. He emphasized the usefulness and genius of two applications on the EOS ecosystem namely Carmel.io and Karmaapp.io.
Carmel.io is a tech education platform based on EOS that creates a fun and exciting environment for students to learn how to code and rewards them with Carmel tokens when they complete coding tasks.
Karmaapp.io is a social media application which rewards users with Karma tokens for sharing their good deeds via the Karma app.
The Panel session was filled with lots of enthusiastic discussion surrounding the use cases for blockchain. The panelist were individuals who are very knowledgeable about blockchain technology they include: Ibrahim Dull-Kifli a design artisan and program coordinator at Kwarabuild, Oyeniyi Abimbola- blockchain expert and Adeola Olaleye Grace- Software Developer and Community advocate at Kwarabuild
The KWASU Blockchain Hackathon is a three-day event. This is just the first day - the symposium. On day two, there is going to be some profound coding and mentor-ship and on the final day of the hackathon, the students/contestants will present their ideas and codes before a panel of judges and compete for the hackathon prize.
You can read a similar version of this report at Campus Blockchain Hackathon.
