{"title": "Liberal Academy", "logoImg": "bafkreibtdg647w7yep6xhotvhipolylvp6rc7spxnispy2bkd4childxta", "website": "https://torpid-lock-072.notion.site/Liberal-Academy-120648681af4806fb4bae2e0b2dc9c00?pvs=4", "bannerImg": "bafkreiboyfaf6xpsfdowmy65reaydjgk57c2gir3udc4tgnudrsy2ezzge", "createdAt": 1729836782230, "credentials": {}, "description": "started in 2019 as a homeshooler community in China,  expanded during the COVID-19 era to support gap year and dropout students through an online community network. We have over 30 topic-specific groups and more than 400 activities, ranging from workshops and study groups to co-living experiences and joint competition participation.\n\nBuilding on our strong community, we are now ready to globalise, connect with more students outside of traditional systems, provide more effective support and reorganise our collaborative mechanisms into a DAO.\n\nOur mission is to connect rebellious and free souls who has suffered in the prison-like education system (expected in an authoritarian state), to prove our abilities through portfolios rather than diplomas, enrich our choices by participating in diverse social networks, run our businesses in global industry as digital nomads, and ultimately free our lives from national destiny and family karma.\n\n\n\nFund using plan\n\n1. Design the career training PBL map for dropout students to get in to global industry.\n\nIf I drop out of high school, how can I become a digital nomad and have an effective career development plan?\n\nWe aim to create a series of project-based learning (PBL) modules that guide dropouts through hands-on experiences, enabling them to enter the global job market step by step.\n\nThis phase we'll focus on the internet industry (including crypto and AI) and international trade.\n\nEach PBL task will involve practical actions, such as \"Translate an interesting English project or community blog into your local language and creat a local social media for it\"\n\nA series of these PBL will create a clear progression from beginner to professional, helping dropouts envision their own path into these industries.\n\nWe’ll run a brainstorming group and interview experts to refine the project, with plans to use $500 in grant funding for subsidy.\n\n\n2. Test career training PBL by translating 3 projects to local social media.\n\nHow can we test if the career training PBL is effective? Will it really appeal to dropouts?\n\nAt Liberal Academy, we already have a group of students, so we plan to test our PBL model by one classic task: translating content from 3 global projects into local social media channels.\n\nThe 3 projects we’ve selected are NounsDAO, a16z Crypto, and Zuzalu (including pop-up cities worldwide).\n\nWe hope each project will start with a $500 bounty, aiming to produce at least 15 translated articles—proposals from NounsDAO, blog posts from a16z Crypto, and event information from Zuzalu. These translations will be shared on platforms like WeChat Public Account (China’s newsletter) and REDnote (China’s Instagram).\n\n\n3. Transition Liberal Acadmy into a DAO\n\nThe remaining funds will be used to create a community fund, managed through Snapshot proposals. Students in Liberal Academy who lead topic-specific groups or projects will have the right to submit proposals and vote. This marks a pivotal moment for our community to step into the web3 space and embrace decentralized governance.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}}