📖 Introduction

A Unique Opportunity for Nouns DAO to fund an experience uniquely centered around Nouns. Focused primarily on engaging children, the app aims to be a playground where Nouns are at the core of fun, interactive, and educational activities. This will be achieved through a scavenger hunt, encouraging movement, exploration, and learning in a delightful manner.

TLDR of how the App works to Engage Kids

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We propose a funding request of 35,000 USDC to expand the Nouns Capture app, an interactive scavenger hunt that educates school-aged students globally about Nouns and key Web 3 concepts in a fun and engaging way. Currently available for iOS, our expansion plan includes developing an Android version of the app, a worldwide launch to tens of thousands of school students globally, and full connected curriculum integration.

🌈 Nouns Doing Good: Witnessing Joy and Engagement Firsthand

Nouns, through the Nouns Capture app, have already begun to sprinkle the magic of joy and wonder into the lives of young explorers around the world. Our MVP has not just been a theoretical success; it’s been a playground where children’s faces light up with delight and curiosity as they engage in a universe filled with playful Nouns, embarking on adventures that fuse the real and digital worlds.

From our hands-on experience, we've witnessed the authentic happiness and excitement that the Nouns Capture app brings to children. It’s not just about discovering and learning; it’s about igniting a passion for exploration and a love for an active, engaging, and joyful form of education, where each Noun becomes a cherished companion in their learning journey. For example students in Singapore using the Nouns capture app as part of a learning activity to learn about Nutrition and Menu planning. (see below)

We have a profound understanding of this realm and a clear vision of how to craft experiences that resonate with the hearts and minds of students globally. With Nouns at the core, the potential to unleash an even more captivating, enriching, and delightful educational adventures.

🏆 MVP Release and Success

The Nouns Capture app has already been released as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) on iOS and has received an overwhelmingly positive response. Download Here

So far, with a word-of-mouth silent launch, we've had 3522 Educational Downloads. This represents schools and educational institutions downloading the app to explore Nouns in their contexts. The MVP showcases the potential of the app as a powerful educational tool, with students across the globe in our beta audience actively engaging with the platform. This early success is a testament to the app's strong foundation, and we aim to build upon this momentum with the proposed expansion.

🎮 How the App Works

The Nouns Capture app allows anyone to find and collect Nouns hidden within barcodes/QR codes in their real environments. By scanning these barcodes using the app, students unlock the hidden Nouns and can store them in their digital journal.

As they progress through the game and collect more Nouns, students are also presented with opportunities to learn about Web 3 concepts. The app encourages exploration and learning in an engaging and interactive way, helping students gain a deeper understanding of the Nouns ecosystem and the broader principles of Web 3 technology.

With absolutely no setup required, you can get started hunting Nouns and playing the base experience right now. Here I am finding Nouns in my local supermarket using the MVP version.

📈 Expansion Plan

🤖 Android Development

As part of our expansion, we will develop an Android version of the Nouns Capture app to ensure maximum reach and accessibility. This will significantly increase the app's user base and allow students with Android devices to enjoy the same engaging educational experience as their iOS counterparts.

🎨 UI Refinement: Unveiling a Nounish Aesthetic

While our current app serves as a functional MVP with essential UI and UX features, it's merely a stepping stone to what we envision. We're excited to bring to life an elevated user interface that embodies a distinct Nounish aesthetic, complete with harmonious colors and fonts. This refined design aims to not only enhance user engagement but also to resonate deeply with our target audience.

🌐 Evolving Playgrounds: Incorporating SubDAOs in the Nouns Capture Universe

In the next iteration of Nouns Capture, we plan to integrate various SubDAOs, making the experience more dynamic and engaging. Users will have the option to toggle between capturing different elements like Nouns, lil nouns, or gnars.

This inclusion allows for a broader, more diverse gameplay, offering a richer user experience while encouraging creativity and exploration. By doing this, we aim to unlock new possibilities and continuously evolve the game to meet and exceed user expectations.

Our inclusive approach aims to nurture a symbiotic relationship with SubDAOs, allowing them to infuse the game with their distinctive flavors, creatures, and narratives. This organic amalgamation aims to perpetuate an ever-evolving, rich, and engaging user experience, encouraging continuous exploration, learning, and fun.

🏋️ Global Launch to 20,000 PE Teachers

Launching the Nouns Capture app is far from a ‘build it and they will come’ approach. We are not starting from scratch; instead, we are leveraging an established stronghold in a crucial educational niche.

• Pre-established Audience: We proudly host a robust audience, ready and waiting. Their presence guarantees that the app will not fall on deaf ears but will be eagerly embraced and incorporated into diverse learning environments.

• Teacher’s Influence: Our network consists of 20,000 teachers, each a conduit of creativity and influence. Their involvement means tailored experiences crafted with expertise, ensuring the app's utility and engagement are maximized.

• Quantifying the Impact: Let’s decipher the numbers - imagine each teacher on our list works with 100 students (its probably more than this), we are looking at a potential ripple effect of impact that helps proliferate nouns.

• Innovation and Authority: Our reputation precedes us. With a history of delivering value, the Nouns Capture app is another innovative offering that the educational community will trust and adopt enthusiastically into their learning programs.

This isn’t a hopeful venture into uncertainty. It is a strategic deployment of an innovative tool into a welcoming and prepared ecosystem, promising not just exposure, but meaningful engagement and expansive influence.

📚 Integration with School Curricula

Our audience of teachers appreciates turnkey solutions that provide immediate value in their classrooms. To make this possible, we develop world-class, curriculum-aligned lesson plans that can be easily implemented. Our goal is to seamlessly integrate the Nouns Capture app into school curricula worldwide. By incorporating the app into students' learning, we ensure they gain valuable knowledge about key Web 3 concepts and other core subject areas while engaging with the Nouns ecosystem in a fun and interactive manner. Download Our Sample Lessons

🌟 Proven Success in EdTech: Global Impact & Engagement 🌟

Our apps are already used by hundreds of thousands of students yearly across the globe, with impressive success stories such as:

1. Move It: A brain break Chrome extension for students with 98 million pageviews.
2. Balance It: An interactive mobile app for teaching gymnastics and balance skills, with over 1 million downloads.
3. Sports Tracker: A school sports software with over 330,000 student accounts.

These achievements demonstrate our dedication to creating and delivering high-quality experiences that resonate with students and educators worldwide, as well as our capacity to effectively reach & shape these audiences.

💡 Nouns ROI: Benefits to the Nouns DAO

🌍 Real-Life Proliferation of Nouns

The Nouns Capture app offers a unique opportunity to expand the Nouns brand's reach among the global school student body, targeting a vast and diverse audience. By launching the app to our network of 20,000 PE teachers, we will introduce thousands of students to the Nouns ecosystem. While many proposals focus on Web 3 users, we believe that true proliferation stems from making Nouns known in traditional contexts. Schools serve as an ideal avenue for genuine proliferation, as they bridge the gap between the digital world and everyday life, providing an immersive and educational experience for students to learn about and engage with the Nouns ecosystem.

🤝 Engage the Next Generation

The World Economic Forum estimates that over 1 billion people will be using blockchain-based systems by 2030, and much of this future audience is currently in today's schools. By introducing Nouns and Web 3 to students early on, we can help cultivate a knowledgeable user base familiar with the Nouns ecosystem and contribute to the broader Web 3 community. We plan to do this via in-app education and interactive experiences.

🎤 Nouns Capture at NFT Conferences and Events

Nouns Capture will be a valuable tool that can be leveraged at NFT conferences and events as an innovative and engaging way to educate attendees about Nouns and Lil Nouns. By utilizing Nouns Capture in these situations, we aim to create memorable experiences for participants and generate enthusiasm for the Nouns ecosystem.
Here's a simple scenario illustrating how Nouns Capture can be effectively utilized at NFT conferences and events:

• Attendees are informed about the Nouns Capture activity during the event's opening announcements or through promotional materials distributed before the event.
• They are instructed to download the Nouns Capture app on their smartphones to participate in the activity.
• The event organizers have strategically placed Nouns hidden within QR codes throughout the venue. These QR codes could be located at various points of interest, such as exhibits, booths, or food and beverage stations.
• Attendees use the Nouns Capture app to scan and collect the hidden Nouns as they explore the venue and engage with the event's programming.
• As they collect Nouns, participants also learn about Web 3 concepts and the Nouns ecosystem, further enhancing their understanding and connection to the Nouns brand.
• Upon completion of the activity, attendees return to the Nouns booth to prove their captures by showing their in-app journal containing the collected Nouns.
• Event organizers reward the participants with prizes, such as exclusive NFTs, merchandise, or event passes, creating a memorable and engaging experience for attendees.

💰 Budget Breakdown

UI Refinement and Android Development (Nouns Capture): $15,000 Marketing and Global Launch: $10,000 Curriculum Integration and Content Development: $5,000 Operations: $5,000 USDC Total: 35,000 USDC

🗓️ Project Timeline: 4-Month Roadmap to Success

📅 Months 1-2

• 🎨 UI Refinement and Android Development for Nouns Capture

📅 Months 3-4

• 🎯 Finalize App Features and Integrations
• 📚 Start Curriculum Integration and Content Development
• 🚀 Begin Marketing and Global Launch preparations
• 📚 Complete Curriculum Integration and Content Development
• 🚀 Finalize Marketing and Global Launch preparations
• 🌐 Nouns Capture App Global Launch
• 🛠️ Operations commence

🔧 Ongoing Support and Maintenance

Creating and maintaining impactful educational experiences for students worldwide is at the heart of our business. The ConnectedPE team is fully committed to providing ongoing support and maintenance for the Nouns Capture app as an integral part of our app portfolio. This is what happens when you build aligned experiences that are designed for real-world use; it is NOT a burden to upkeep these as they are fundamental experiences for those in our audience. Nouns Capture will receive the same level of support and attention as any of our other apps and products, ensuring its continued success and impact on global students. This commitment comes without any additional cost from the DAO.