InterGen SCHOOL EdVenture
Building an open educational format, empowering our school with future technologies, proving that bringing 1 billion users onchain works IRL through strong communities tackling real-world problems.
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About
The problem it solves **InterGen EdVenture** addresses key educational challenges in Berlin, such as educational inequity, outdated teaching methods, limited interdisciplinary learning, and the significant lag in digitalization. The German education system often ties students' success to their socio-economic background, leading to disparities. Traditional lecture-based methods hinder the development of critical skills like creativity and collaboration. Subjects are rigidly separated, preventing comprehensive, interdisciplinary learning. Teachers are overburdened, limiting their ability to innovate and provide individualized support. Additionally, integrating external educational initiatives into schools is difficult due to economic interests and concerns about undue influence. Furthermore, German schools, including those in Berlin, are far behind in digitalization, leaving students unprepared for the future. **InterGen EdVenture**, a 2-day festival at Sophie-Scholl-Schule, combines BarCamps and Hackathons to foster creativity, collaboration, and practical skills. As active and trusted community members, my daughter and I serve as bridges, uniting our IRL and onchain networks and connecting our school with the web3 world and external educational experts. This initiative leverages our deep integration in the school community to introduce innovative educational formats, empowering students and fostering community engagement.
How it's made
Challenges we ran into The main challenge I faced was time management. As a full-time working mother with a school-aged daughter and caregiving responsibilities for my elderly mother, finding time for the Hackathon submission was extremely difficult. I only had nights and small breaks to work on it. Adding to the chaos, the Football European Championship is currently underway in Germany, which has deprived our team of much-needed sleep! ⚽😴 Although I had many innovative ideas, I lacked the time to consolidate and write them down into a cohesive concept. I also wanted to build software, such as prototyping the competency badges for kids mentioned in the concept, and submit it to the ZORA track to win more prizes for the project and the school. However, time constraints made this impossible. My project submission is not just a piece of code but a social and community education concept, which made it challenging to fit into the typical Hackathon format. This complexity added to the difficulty of the submission process. Time problems naturally also affected my team member, my daughter and visual creator. She had to continue attending school and living her much more important real-life while participating in the Hackathon and following the Football European Championship. 📚⚽ For us, an IRL Hackathon, for which we can specifically take time off, would be a much better option. We hope to receive funding for our own Hackathon in our local community (see project submission). 😊