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Indeed it would be important to plant a NEM seed in at least two Universities: MIT and Standford. However we should not only give NEM for free, but go one step further and organize some creative events to attract the great minds/entrepreneurs/developers/hackers. One such event would be a hackathon for building the best app upon our blockchain, another could be an event where people should come up with the most innovative business ideas to incorporate NEM. A lot more can be done - you name it. If we manage to plant some NEM clubs in these Universities I think we could also kindle an interesting and intelligent discussion regarding our technological innovation, regarding our economic innovation(equality experiment) and regarding our social innovation(the NEM movement).

+1000!
Great idea you've got there. Wouldn't be too hard to implement,(hardest part I guess would be getting a college's approval?) maybe we could even let the community vote for the best app through NEM client!

How about not just focusing on the US, but doing this for, say, the first 50 or 100 students to apply at major universities around the world, like MIT, Stanford, CMU, CalTech, Peking University (北京大学), Tokyo University (東京大学), UCL, Oxford, etc.? Just verify that their e-mail address if from there, and give them like 10,000 NEM each.

Good points. Though I think we shouldn't give 10000 directly, bur rather create a secret plan how each student Nemster should try and plant a NEM nest in his university and "conquer" it for us and as he makes progress he can gradually unlock more NEM. We put a "bounty" for each level up and create a gamification framework for NEM students. Each NEM we give will be more effective like that.

I think we should work on this ! This may have a huge impact on publicity if the cards are played wright and provide immediate results towards adoption too !! Shocked

Additionally, we can do this. Every country has some sort of bitcoin meetups. Send our ambassadors there and shout some drinks and snacks in these meetups and do some promos. I am sure we have enough of us here in the group to represent a large part of the community. Very quickly this will propagate because the crypto world is very small.

Such great ideas going on here. I really like the idea of a gamification framework.
Makato, reminds me of facebook back in the day, when they verified your email account because you had to be a student to join. NEM is Facebook, Bitcoin is Myspace Grin

I'd be willing to set up tutorials specifically aimed at these students when the time comes.
Let's SWARM those bitcoin meetups Cheesy

+1 tutorials will be very important!