Students Are Now Turning To Crypto To Help With School Expenses
Students are now turning to crypto to plug the financial gap that comes with schooling. It is no surprise that the cost of schooling has gone up tremendously over the years. Now more than ever, students are graduating with tens of thousands of dollars in student debt. But even the massive loans students have to […]
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Remember the interesting news item this year that all MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) undergraduate students would received $100 of bitcoin for free? Well, we haven't heard a whole lot about it, but the project has officially gone live. It's spearheaded by the MIT Bitcoin Project and somewhat mysteriously financed, but the 4500+ students at the school are able to easily pick up their bitcoins, which they can then convert to U. S. dollars, or more preferably, spend at bitcoin-accepting locations in the MIT area (which is a growing bitcoin hot spot). In order for students at the....
Last month I attended an interesting Orlando Bitcoin Meetup. The Meetup took place at Bright Learning Academy, a school for special needs students that works with children who need an alternative to traditional school settings. The school takes a technological approach to learning. It's no mystery that kids learn to understand technology much more easily than we do. That's just the way things go. Bright Learning Academy is teaching money management and free market principles with Bitcoin technology. They did it before MIT. Last winter, school teacher Robert Lefebure began signing up....
High school students in Georgia look set to be taught about crypto after a new financial literacy program was approved by the Georgia House of Representatives. The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a bill that calls for state education officials to implement a study program based around financial literacy for high schoolers — and cryptocurrency is on the curriculum list.The bill passed the lower chamber of Georgia on March 8 by a vote of 169-2. The bill was sponsored by six Republican candidates and has been sent to the Senate for further deliberation. The program outlines 16....
Government data showed that 244,940 Japanese elementary and junior high school students were absent for at least 30 days in FY 2021. The Japanese city of Toda, Saitama, adopted a metaverse-schooling service to encourage students — especially those staying far away from school — to attend their classes. The metaverse schooling service opted for by the city of Toda allows students to explore the campus and study in virtual classrooms. However, the students must get approval from respective school principals for attendance via metaverse schooling, confirms local media NHK.Government data....
Yelp Director of Public Policy Luther Lowe has donated $10,000 in bitcoin to his high school Alma Mater as part of an effort to create a computer science course on bitcoin for students. Lowe, who graduated from Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA) in 2001 and is currently serving his final year as the school's Board of Visitors chair, indicated that the donation will help the ASMA keep pace educating students on what he feels is a revolutionary technology. Speaking to CoinDesk, Lowe lauded bitcoin and its potential to help boost the educations of students at the....