Empower students to actively participate in the governance process of their schools using web3 technology.

• The school experience is sub-optimal for students because decision-makers are not hearing all voices impacted by their decisions
Lack of inclusion and transparency in decision making processes
Limited say/power in decision making for majority of school students
School politics are a “popularity contest”
Decision making is centralized
Administrations don’t include students in decisions
Student body as core stake holders are frequently not consulted

• Schools don’t have web3 learning programs

• Empower student groups to have their voices heard
Organize
Design and build a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) platform to allow student groups to organize and make proposals
Educate
Educate these groups on how to organize, govern their community, use this platform to achieve the changes they desire and how to best interact with decision makers.
Connect
Create an ecosystem of schools around the world who can share learnings, collaborate on projects and support each other’s development

• Empowering:
A student group sets up their school on our platform (creating a DAO)
A user opens a QR code, joining the platform with their school’s email. He/She is automatically associated with the correct organisation and all permissions to be able to join the discussions, create proposals, vote and engage the community.
From there they have options: they can enter the learning hub and learn, in a gamified way, more about the technology behind our platform, the governance systems and much more. They can enter their SchoolDAO hub and create proposals, add to the discussion and vote. Finally, they can also enter the Connect Hub where they can reach out to all other organisations on our platform to join or connect with other student groups around the world.

• Voices Heard:
The members of the SchoolDAO have a choice about how they want to engage the different stakeholder groups. By Default, all proposals are forwarded to the email of the school principal, but SchoolDAO members may chose to nominate representatives or adopt any other system they wish.

• Ownership of their voices:
Students own their DAO. Therefore, it is their responsibility to chose the parameters of the organisation as well as having the benefits of ownership. Fundamental choices, such as type of voting, will be decided by them with support from the learning program.

• Learn about web3 and decentralized organization (DAOs)

• Join cohorts of students to learn with and from other students across the world

• Library of on-demand courses

• Live courses

• Setup your school DAO

• Invite the student body create a wallet (or use their school or personal email) and join the DAO

• Discuss and debate issues on the forum

• Create proposals to drive change

• Execute a vote on the proposals

• Share the results with the student body and school administration

• How have we validated the market? Granada Hills High School

• Are there other solutions out there that compare to? Not that we know of

• Are there similar things that schools are trying to do already? Nothing mainstream or that has gained traction

• And we have talked to X of people at Y schools

• Action item: research - find data, anecdotes, etc.

• How do we define the market?
Starting with English Speak countries with a focus on US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Later to be expanded to other markets.
Want no. of highschools and number of students aged between 15-18
In the USA there are 26,727 High schools
How Many Schools are in The U.S (Statistics & Facts) - 2023
Are you wondering How Many Schools are there in the U.S? check out the latest public school statistics to find the facts and figures updated May 29, 2023.

https://admissionsly.com/how-many-schools-are-there/

Students at High Schools (15 to 18)
USA (2021 data) and 15.1 million students in public and 1.54 million in private High School in the 19/20 academic year.
Canada 3,419 High Schools and 1.6 million high school students (92% are in public schools)
The Daily — Elementary–Secondary Education Survey, 2019/2020
Over 5.7 million students in Canada were enrolled in elementary and secondary school programs in 2019/2020. These students were attending public schools, private/independent schools, or were home-schooled.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/211014/dq211014c-eng.htm
UK 4,190 Secondary Schools and 4.1 million students
Education and training statistics for the UK, Reporting year 2021
<p>This release compiles information on education systems across the United Kingdom. Education is devolved in the UK, so each part of the United Kingdom has a separate education system, with different attainment measures.</p><p>In this release, there are sections focusing on the school system: numbers of schools, pupils and teachers and pupil teacher ratios.</p><p>This is followed by sections looking at post-compulsory education, which includes the number of further and higher education institutions and the number of students. There is also a section on young adults (aged between 16-24) who are not in education or employment.</p><p>The next sections focus on students’ qualifications, typically taken at ages 16 and 18 (although given the different qualifications systems and headline measures, it is not suitable to present a direct comparative picture of pupil performance across the UK),&nbsp;as well as the highest qualifications held by adults in the UK (aged 19-64).</p><p>Finally there is a section showing government education expenditure in the UK.</p>

https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-and-training-statistics-for-the-uk/2021

Ireland 723 Secondary Schools and 200,000 students
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https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/233674/8743376a-a34f-4f9c-a691-b39ba8a89c61.pdf#page=null
Market size is:
Number of Schools - 34,000
Student Population - 22 million
 
Parents of the above students
Theoretically there would be 26,727 parent associations
All teachers of these schools
Theoretically there would be 26.727 teacher associations
587,684 high school teachers currently employed in the USA
High School Teacher Demographics and Statistics [2023]: Number Of High School Teachers In The US
How many High School Teachers are in US? More than 587,684. Learn more about 2023 demographics based on factors such as age, race, sex, salary and location.

https://www.zippia.com/high-school-teacher-jobs/demographics/

All administration members of the schools

• Total addressable market - how many school globally? Europe + US?

• Student population size:

• Parent population size (2nd potential user group):

• Teacher population size:

• Administrator population size:

• Serviceable addressable market - how much of that target market can we actually service?

• Serviceable obtainable market - what we are going after.

• What is the product and why is it awesome
Learn how to navigate web3
Limited web3 knowledge onboarding: users are able to start participating in web3 on day one if they know how to create a username and password, then build their knowledge over time.
Create Student owned DAOs
Create your project/proposal, debate, vote and enact
Create art, science, and music NFTs and sell them on the marketplace to fund your proposal

• How do we break into this non-existing market?
Early stage growth:
Direct outreach to schools by core team members until Product Market Fit is achieved
Job/career day fairs
To scale:
Partnerships with:
School districts
3rd party tech providers
NGO’s and foundations that promote democracy initiatives ( https://code.org , https://eudec.org/about-us/who-we-are/, https://www.youthactivismproject.org/ https://www.stuvoice.org/ )
Student - Ambassador program
Internships - word of mouth student to student spreading to other schools

• Our solution pulls on emotions of users and community
Fears - my (my kids) school is not well funded and I have no way to fix that or change schools
Competition/pride - We can sell our schools creative and innovative assets on the market
Compassion - I can buy NFTs and the money goes to supporting education

• What else is already out there?
Capterra.com
votesforschools.com
Google educate, apply classroom
List of solutions in the education space (voting apps, proposal apps, web3 education solutions)

• Why us?
1st to market - we will be the first org to launch a web3 governance app designed for school students, with an eye on opening this up to all school stakeholders, should the demand present itself
Again: Limited web3 knowledge onboarding: users are able to start participating in web3 on day one if they know how to create a username and password, then build their knowledge over time.
One platform solution, integrating:
Learning
Governing
Connecting
Benefits of web3 and their appeal to the student body, including:
Decentralization
Ownership
Transparancy
Best of Web2: a more mature technology which will provide further:
Ease of use
Accessibility
Familiarity
Students are part of the team allowing us to best deliver to their needs
Understanding of student needs, with student body partnerships to advise in the design process

• Who are we?

• Quotes from schools / teachers / students that want this.