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Dennehy says that anyone who learns about Bitcoin doesn’t shy away from it.
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Since January, My First Bitcoin has graduated 400 students.
Bitcoin education in El Salvador reaches beyond the student population. The country’s own teachers have already received instruction on this digital asset, with nearly 400 teachers graduating from the Bitcoin Diploma, offered by the organization Mi Primer Bitcoin.
John Dennehy, CEO of My First Bitcoin, told CriptoNoticias that they have been able to train and graduate a total of 359 public school teachers in El Salvador.
That’s almost double what the organization proposed in August last year, when they signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Education of El Salvador, with the aim of train 150 teachers about BTC.
According to Dennehy, the nearly 400 teachers assigned to the Ministry of Education of El Salvador They are already giving classes of bitcoin. My First Bitcoin knows this because they follow up with all teachers after the course “and we help ensure quality.”
Thursday, August 22, My First Bitcoin reported that The training of Ministry teachers at the national level continued. Thanking the support of the Bitcoin Beach citadel, the organization valued that the interested teachers come from different departments of El Salvador, denoting the expansion of the project.
Dennehy believes that, although 359 teachers trained in Bitcoin “It seems like a tiny number in the short term” With respect to the more than 6.3 million people living in El Salvador, the long-term impact they have is greater.
“Each teacher will teach entire classrooms or even entire schools,” Dennehy said. “And the best of them will help train hundreds or thousands more teachers in the years to come.” In other words, a multiplier effect that will remain under a vision of low time preference on the adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador, as he explained.
The nearly 400 teachers assigned to the Ministry of Education of El Salvador are already teaching bitcoin classes. Source: My First Bitcoin.
400 students graduated so far this year
For his part, Dennehy indicated that from January to August, from My First Bitcoin have been able to graduate more than 400 students from the Bitcoin Diploma. All of them were teenagers between 16 and 17 years old belonging to the public school system, he explained.
“While there are fewer students enrolled in the open enrollment mode and they are of a wider range of ages,” said Dennehy, who also noted that they have redesigned a new introductory course. “This month we started beta testing with students.”
For Dennehy, the Bitcoin education and training process in El Salvador is “slow but steady.” And this means that once new Bitcoiners join El Salvador, whether for education or any other reason, “they don’t go back.” That is, They stay within the ecosystem and say goodbye to traditional, centralized finance.
Until now, More than 35,000 students in El Salvador have been trained in Bitcoin by this non-governmental organization. This since 2021, when the institution was formed. That was the same year of the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender in that country.
According to My First Bitcoin, The goal is set at 100,000 students educated on this digital asset and its ecosystem, so that the new generation of Salvadorans is already prepared for the future where BTC will be the protagonist, as defended by the organization.
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