Another important initiative they have taken recently is to give students in El Salvador hands-on education, in-depth knowledge and experience with Bitcoin through the pilot program and through the Node Nation program. They took this initiative in 2023 then they continuously worked to make that initiative successful and finally they came in 2024 to fully reflect their initiative and teach students about Bitcoin i.e. intricacies of running nodes and Bitcoin mining. This means that if they take any initiative about Bitcoin, they must prove it in reality.
The point of the Node Nation program is as follows:
The initiative teaches high school students how to program Bitcoin nodes and process transactions on the Network. About 75 young people from the General Baccalaureate Educational Complex of Ignacio Pacheco Castro, located in San Marcos, San Salvador, joined Node Nation
Node Nation is a project with a completely technical and practical approach. It not only seeks to impart concepts related to digital asset to students, but also focuses on the application of blockchain technology and the installation of nodes, on computers that maintain copies of the network and process transactions, a key element of a decentralized nature of bitcoin.
Students receive lessons on computers they received from private investors and install the necessary software to see the bitcóin network using other tools provided by the project.
It is important to note that one of the main goals at the end of the program is to leave the hardware installed in schools so that students continue to be in contact with technology.
The plan is for five years. There will be 6,000 schools in El Salvador, with an average of 60 young people per school, meaning 360,000 young people knowledgeable in technology and programming will be trained specialists.
There is still a shortage of specialists in the country to develop Bitcoin technologies, and with this knowledge they can enter the labor market with better opportunities.
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