Skylar

Inspiration

During the Covid- 19 pandemic, technology has revolutionized our world and daily lives, it has created amazing tools and resources to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on the workplace, bringing the workspace to our homes. But this technologies has automated millions of routine transaction jobs. An average graduate spends approximately 21 percent of his/her life in an educational environment, yet, after years of schooling, most institutions have failed to teach students the most important subject: how to navigate the workplace.

This has resulted in a wide skill gap and is faced with the challenge of redefining a foundational education to keep up with the evolution of skills required to solve problems, innovate and succeed. The question is no longer whether there are employment opportunities, but are young people employable?

According to a study by McKinsey Global Institute, more than 300 million workers may need to switch occupations by 2030, a 12 percent increase compared to before the pandemic overall and a rise of as much as 25 percent in advanced economies. The World Economic Forum estimates that more than half (54%) of all current jobs are considered at high risk of automation over the next 10-15 years, and nearly 65% of students are being trained in occupations where the vast majority of jobs will be radically affected by automation within this time frame. In Africa in 2016, 11 million youth were expected to enter the workforce every year for the next 10 years, according to the World Bank. Furthermore, by 2050, Africa is expected to have more than half of the world’s population growth. This rapid growth in the number of young people will increase the need to educate, employ and fundamentally prepare them for an evolving and digital world.

In order to solve this problem we created Skylar which is an online platform where students can learn relevant work skills like problem solving, innovation and digitalization and also have access to job opportunities and micro task on the effect network.

What it does

How we built it

Students can enroll in Skylar to study the latest trends in earth observation, they learn earth monitoring skills and then take an assessment.
We incorporate mix media pictures, texts and audio to make allow people in regions of low internet connection to have a smooth experience with Skylar We offer learning incentives where students earn tokens for outstanding performance in Skylar. After the learning process students can enroll for virtual internship companies around the world to offer his skills and in turn get paid. We use Icon Java sdk to incorporate a payment system which is a flexible payment system that is open to everyone. We chose Icon because it will encourage mass adoption of blockchain technology

Challenges we ran into

This is the first time we are building a blockchain solution

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’ve built our first app for students to learn and earn

What we learned

We’ve learnt how to use Icon network to solve real life problems

What's next for Skylar

We are going to be testing Skylar with real users, we will go to different schools to see how students interact with these games and get parents/teachers' feedback, we will then proceed to build the main product by considering the feedback we’ve gotten.

Built With

• android-studio