Proposal for Clarity Education Residency

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What's your name/your team's name? Whitelabel Collaborative

Best email on which to contact you? [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Personal Statement In order to help the Stacks ecosystem grow, we believe it’s vitally important to continually equip developers to join the community. A training program is necessary to achieve this goal. We’re invested in the success of this program, making sure it improves cohort over cohort and is a great service to those developers entering the community.

In order to accomplish this, we will maintain a small team of developers who share in the teaching workload, allowing us to achieve both redundancy and scale. Moreover, the team should be able to better accommodate logistical concerns, such as timezone differences.

The effort will be initially led by CiaraMaria Proia, with the assistance and Aakanksha Mahajan.

CiaraMaria Proia is a web3 developer who has been involved in the Stacks community since the summer of ’21 as one of the OG NFT collectors under the pseudonym [redacted].btc. Her enthusiasm for blockchain technology and the emerging Stacks ecosystem led her to begin learning Clarity and attend Clarity U cohort 2. She is currently involved in multiple projects throughout the ecosystem and is excited to work with the Stacks Foundation to bring more comprehensive education and resources to current and future Clarity devs.

Aakanksha Mahajan is a Full Stack Developer with 6+ years of industry experience in the design and implementation of web-based applications across diversified technology stacks and a range of programming languages. Her Web3 enthusiasm has led her to deeply explore blockchain development (beginning with solidity) and get familiar with the Stacks ecosystem. Aakanksha has tremendous skill at helping less experienced developers develop their knowledge base and a comfort level with new languages.

End Product It is our hope that the training program continues long beyond the length of this residency, but our end goal for the first six months is to optimize the current materials, making them more test-driven and interactive. We believe these optimizations will allow us to scale, which is the ultimate goal. Specifically, our goals include an average of 12 students per cohort, a new cohort launching every 3 weeks, running not less than 2 cohorts in parallel.

Roadmap

• EOQ2 Milestone:
  • Prepare PPTs and pre-record tutorials for all key concepts Types & Keywords Storing Data Functions Control Flow Testing Traits Standards Practice Projects
  • Train the trainers. Equip an additional two instructors to successfully lead cohorts (total 4).
  • Ready to scale to one new cohort per 3 weeks
• EOQ3 Milestone
  • Upgrade Code Academy syllabus
  • Create assignments to be completed within a test-driven-development playground
  • Write quizzes after each concept as a pre-requisite to the following chapter
  • Write a smart contract to issue an NFT certificate of completion to graduates
• EOQ4 Milestone
  • Create a curriculum of pre-work to better equip students for upcoming cohorts
  • Develop and test a qualifying pre-exam

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Brings me great joy to see this application officially come through. As I mentioned over here, we've received a number of applications and provided feedback and in some cases redirected folks to more suitable positions. (Look out very soon for more exciting Clarity related residency developments 💯 )

Anyway, the Whitelabel team has been so impressive from my first interaction, they come vouched for by Kenny Rogers here at the foundation who used to work there, and are fully prepared to deliver on Clarity Camp in a major way, as well as take advantage of the partnerships and new directions it's primed for. They have a track record of training developers in Web 3 and bring a wealth of experience in Solidity to the table as well. They've also experienced Clarity Camp and are passionate about helping unleash the language further.

I fully endorse Ciara, Tim, and company for this position and look forward to their presentation to the community. @will-at-stacks is currently scheduling that!

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Hi everyone,

With our Clarity Education residency at its end, we at the Whitelabel team want to provide an end-of-residency update. Working to onboard new developers to the Stacks ecosystem was an incredible experience and we are grateful that we were entrusted with this opportunity.

Following is a summary of our achievements over the last year:

• Delivered a total of 6 virtual six-week Clarity Camps with an estimated 400 students total.
• Delivered 2 virtual Instructor Camps for a total of 11 Stacks Chapter leaders to learn to deliver their own local camps.
• Led 1 in-person workshop + hackathon in Miami in partnership with CityCoins, Miami-Dade College, and Venture Miami where we reached an estimated total of 50 students. Link
• Led 1 in-person workshop in NYC at EmpireDAO where we reached a total of 5 students. Link
• Led 1 in-person Clarity Camp in Austin where we reached a total of 18 students. Link
• Mentored and delivered a week-long Clarity crash course to Cohort 1 of the BTC Startup Lab where we reached a total of 15 students. Link
• Hosted and judged 4 virtual hackathons with a total of 315 registrations and 35 submissions total:
  • Clarity Universe Camp Hackathon with 33 registrations and 7 submissions. Link
  • Builders Edition Clarity Hackathon with 84 registrations and 9 submissions. Link
  • Clarity Holiday Hackathon with 108 registrations and 7 submissions. Link
  • Building on Bitcoin Hackathon with 90 registrations and 12 submissions. Link
• Expanded the Clarity Camp curriculum by adding more written content, code examples, tutorials, and assignments. Created a self-paced course including our new content for ongoing Clarity Education past the end of our residency. Link
• Worked alongside the Stacks Foundation in creating an NFT certificate of completion for Clarity Camp graduates that will reflect in the talent pool directory. Link
• Worked alongside Kenny, Stacks Developer Advocate, to create a comprehensive Clarity Assessment with 10 submissions to date. Link
• Assisted Kenny, Stacks Developer Advocate, in initializing a Building on Bitcoin self-paced course. (In-progress)

Although our Clarity Education residency has come to an end, we still plan to be heavily involved in Stacks and look forward to the continued growth of the ecosystem.

Cheers,

CiaraMaria, Aakanksha, and the rest of the Whitelabel Team