Quote from: titular on December 05, 2021, 05:01:41 PM

To give a little information without completely doxing myself, I am a 6th-grade middle school mathematics teacher. This is my second year in the classroom, and since my very first day, I have had bitcoin strewn all around my room. Hand-drawn logos, ATH date trackers, common boards with paper bitcoins on them. My students are very aware of my admiration for bitcoin.

On the surface, this seems great but I have ran into an issue.

There are a couple of times per year that we are able to have true free days. On these free days, instead of doing more math, we create our own ERC-20 token as a class. They get to see how the smart contracts are written and how they are deployed on the blockchain. I have 6 classes so we end up with 6 new tokens. The students have an absolute blast with this.

My concern is that I am preaching the blessings of bitcoin, yet I'm showing them the "wonders" of inferior protocols. How can I create a classroom project that interacts with the bitcoin ecosystem? Creating an ERC-20 token is simple enough and it's inclusive because all the students need to do is input their opinions as I create the token on the projector. I attempted doing a Lightning Network project where we would pass around small amounts of sats in the classroom using Wallet of Satoshi. I then ran into the issue of not every student having a phone, so this did not work.

So I beg the question; How can I create a class project centered around bitcoins ecosystem that can be inclusive to all students regardless of the technology they may or may not possess?

Firstly, a very thank you sir because you are doing a great thing by encouraging your students to learn more about bitcoin and cryptocurrency as a whole.
I would have been very luck if I had got a teacher like you. To answer your question, I think there is one way you can do a short project related to the bitcoin ecosystem.
Taking your own idea into consideration lets assume not all the students will have a phone but you don't even need all the students to have a phone.

You just need 2 phones. Setup a lightning channel between the 2 devices and then call 2 students at a time and let them make a transaction from one to another.
Similarly you can call all the students 2 at a time and make do transactions with each other on the same lightning network.
This will save you on the fees and will limit the resources for the project.