UEL Web3 & Polkadot Student Panel
I am Gabriele Iacopo Langellotto, Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA‑X) graduate and Hourly Paid Lecturer (L3) at the University of East London (UEL).
This Small Tipper proposal requests a 250 DOT retroactive reward for my contribution to a student‑led panel on “The Endless Possibilities of Web3 and Polkadot Blockchain” as part of the Level 6 Smart Contracts, Blockchain & Web3 module in BSc Computer Science at UEL.
The panel was led by Dr. Bilyaminu Auwal Romo (Head of UG Programs, BSc Computer Science). In his public LinkedIn post, he highlighted myself and fellow student Akashkumar Vanzara for taking centre stage, demonstrating real‑world Web3 and Polkadot projects, and showing how these technologies solve genuine, high‑impact problems. Industry guests from RealXEducation and XCavate Protocol joined to provide additional Polkadot ecosystem use cases and perspectives.
This session:
– Was delivered inside a university module on Smart Contracts & Web3
– Focused explicitly on Polkadot and Web3 as a technology stack
– Is fully documented by UEL staff on LinkedIn, with photos and names
I am requesting 250 DOT as a modest retroactive recognition for preparation, presentation, and student support around this panel.
Dr. Bilyaminu Auwal Romo (Head of UG Programs, BSc Computer Science) LinkedIn Post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7435286720125931520/
Xcavate Protocol LinkedIn Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xcavateblockchain_the-realxeducation-peer-to-peer-learning-activity-7435294141728583680-Ba8e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABb4kN8Bdkeuf0R-JzWorxsk3rx8HIrTnhk
Thanks all for your help!
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If Polkadot’s technology is truly a high-impact solution for real-world problems, it should be taught in a Computer Science curriculum based on its own technical merits and relevance. Relying on Treasury rewards to promote its inclusion in a university module suggests a lack of organic adoption. We should not be paying salaried lecturers to feature the tech. If it is the best tool for the job, academia will naturally adopt it without subsidies
Hi there, thanks for taking time to comment and express what you think.
I agree with you, Polkadot should be taught in university, and I’m actively working towards making it known at UEL. I previously held multiple Polkadot Masterclasses as a student, never as a Hourly Paid Lecturer, especially because I don’t have the freedom as a full-time Lecturer, but also because I work just a small amount of allocated hours, outside that I am always a student.
From my perspective, despite I have never used it before, the Treasury should always be involved with anything that it is related to outreach, especially if in education, due to the type of audience that reaches. The academic environment is one of the most difficult to change and revolutionise, especially overnight, but openness to it should be recognised and rewarded.
Since when I started the free Masterclasses as a student last year, I managed to get interested not only most of my classmates (Data Science and AI students), but also students society, lecturers, and students from different faculties, always as a student, which doesn't include any ROI, if not the satisfaction of getting loads of individuals interested and excited to learn more.
I hope that in the future it will be included and vastly promoted to any student, and that my input will help moving towards it.
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