For mentors
Hello! If you’re new to SAI.DAO, you’re probably still wondering what it is, why it’s important, and what its main attractions are (as well as what your roles will be).
(TL;DR at the bottom if this comes across as too long)
Premise
So first of all, SAI.DAO is a student-led life science research ecosystem, running on blockchain principles like DeSoc. The whole premise of our project is to democratize high school research to all students, so social impact and equality are at the core of our values. More details about our mission are available on the home page and in the DeSoc widget.
Your role: research guidance
If I may, I’ll start with your roles in the ecosystem. So the research guidance aspect of SAI.DAO isn’t much different from other available platforms like Lumiere. Students will launch their biology research projects (flaired with specific subdivisions like genetics), and mentors can sign up for ‘bid’ for these research projects. Students will then communicate privately with you to determine if you are their best fit. Once you engage in a research project, keeps in mind that your guidance is meant to be fully transparent, so materials you provide and conversations with the pupil could be made public. Payments of money and $SAI will be made along certain research checkpoints instead as a one-time deposit, which ensures consistent and high-quality guidance. And that’s basically it for the research guidance component!
Your role: progress reviewing
Another crucial part of SAI.DAO is the progress peer review channel, where pupils receiving guidance can consult the community for evaluation on the quality of the guidance they receive. Essentially, they can post their guidance materials and history for mentors and highly qualified students to evaluate, in order to receive objective measurements for the guidance they received. All mentors are encouraged and incentivized by $SAI to evaluate in this channel.
Our token
Now you may be wondering, apart from this transparency stuff, what’s the difference between SAI.DAO and other research guidance communities? Here is where our shiny currency $SAI makes its appearance.
In the hands of pupils, $SAI is used as an incentive, unlocking channels and posting privileges. However, recall that mentors can gain $SAI only from being gifted from pupils, or through evaluation in the progress peer review channel. In other words, $SAI is earned with skill and research expertise.
Credentials
Therefore, $SAI can be used as credentials for mentors. They can be taken out of circulation and transferred into your account as credentials, almost like “social credit points” in our community. Together with objective resume material like education and research experience, $SAI and qualitative evaluations from your pupils can function as extremely strong credentials. If you decide not to take them out of circulation, you can also gift or ‘airdrop’ them to specific demographics in the student population, a wonderful opportunity to support underprivileged students to help them climb up the research vine.
TL;DR
We prioritize transparency and research quality by using DeSoc. Our currency is also fantastic for boosting credentials.
