ROLE COIN Proof-of-progress for education.

RoleCoin, a digital currency that tracks and measures the skill and career development progress of its recipient. Finally, donors and investors can track the impact of the $100+ billion they give annually towards educating the STEM/STEAM workforce of the future.

website: https://rolecoin.io

Who needs proof-of-progress?

Grant-making Foundations
Impact Investors
Education-focused Philanthropists
Non-Profit Organizations focused on STEM/STEAM training and development

Philanthropic foundations, impact investors and family offices finally have a way to track the long-term impact of their investments in STEAM and STEAM education.

RoleCoin and its accompanying dashboard, provide proof-of-progress by tracking the ongoing skill and career development progress of Rolecoin recipients.

Join whitelist for private pre-sale and receive a 50% discount for a limited time.
https://rolecoin.steamrole.org/

Don’t just give money, give the gift of a role model
BENEFITS, DONORS & INVESTORS
Impact investors and grant-making foundations no longer have to rely on the organisations that they invest in to self-report the effectiveness of money spent on STEM and STEAM training and career development.

Giving fiat currency can educate a recipient for a short time. Giving Rolecoin will educate a recipient for a lifetime by providing ongoing career discovery, inspiration and guidance from STEAMRole’s ecosystem of top STEAM role models.

BENEFITS ORGANIZATIONS
Organizations providing STEM/STEAM training and career development recognize the need for ongoing coaching and mentorship to program participants.

There is no easy way to monitor the career progress of alumni of the program or provide scalable way for successful alumni to pay-it-forward, until now.

RoleCoin thrives here
RoleCoins track proof-of-progress as it happens on STEAMRole, a skill and career-development mobile app that helps students and aspiring professionals discover and receive ongoing inspiration and guidance from diverse role models with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, art/design and mathematics.

Follow role models with similar interests, gender, and ethnicity as you and receive video inspiration and learn:

What it’s like to build rockets at SpaceX
What it takes to become a designer at Nike
What skills you’ll need to acquire to build your own startup
Furthermore, take action and learn the skills of any role model by following their roadmap: a checklist of the skills with links to online educational resources where you can learn each skill.

RoleCoin's core features

Transparent

Investors and Charitable Organizations want to see how and where their money is being spent. RoleCoin gives them a blockchain and dashboard to measure that impact.

Fast and secure

Because RoleCoin is powered by the Stellar Lumen blockchain, it has lightening fast transaction speeds, close to zero transaction cost and proven security.

Incentive-driven

Since RoleCoins are digitally minted though proof-of-progress, recipients are motivated to learn, earn and return to the ecosystem to gain more RoleCoin.

Token Allocation
The maximum supply of RoleCoin will grow until it reaches a cap of 1 billion tokens based on the following allocation and distribution framework.

35% Sold via Token Sale
~350 million RoleCoin will be sold to participants during the private pre-sale and public ICO sale. Any unsold RoleCoin will be added to the minting pool.

30% Minted via Proof-of-Progress
~300 million RoleCoin will be minted by STEAMRole users over several years as they add value to the network by learning new skills, inviting new users, and creating new story clip video content.

20% Shareholders and Early Investors
The timed release of 200 million RoleCoin will go to STEAMRole’s management team, shareholders and early investors over a 3-year distribution schedule.

15% Held in Treasury
~150 million RoleCoin will be held in reserve by the organization for future distributions to advisors, developers, and partners who further develop the ecosystem and proof-of-progress protocol.

Use of Proceeds
Proceeds from the crowdsale of the RoleCoin utility token will accelerate sales and operations of STEAMRole’s platform (currently in private beta) and adoption of RoleCoin’s proof-of-progress protocol.

Tech Development (37%)
Costs associated with building the engineering infrastructure and talent needed to execute the vision.

General ∓ Administrative (21%)
Costs associated with building the management team and operational infrastructure needed to execute the vision.

Sales (17%)
Costs associated with building the sales infrastructure and talent needed to achieve the enterprise sales that will fuel the business well into the future.

Marketing (17%)
Costs associated with brand recognition and spreading the word to accelerate sales and growth of the platform and ecosystem.

Business Development (8%)
Costs associated with developing relationships with organizations and impact investors to propel the RoleCoin ecosystem.

Roadmap
This is a high level roadmap. Projected timings may be impacted by the scale and success of the Crowdsale and/or possible unforeseen external factors.

Q1 2017
Genesis
STEAMRole’s vision and business model is conceived by Clarence Wooten, a successful Silicon-valley based serial internet entrepreneur.

Q2 2017
Early Developers Hired
A decentralized team of early software engineers and designers join STEAMRole to begin executing the vision.

Q3 2017
Initial Paying Enterprise Customer Landed
STEAMRole signs HP Inc. as the initial customer of it’s Diverse Talent Pipeline dashboard. Other notable enterprise customers (to be announced) follow suit.

Top Advisors and Executives Join
Roberto Rodriguez, President Obama’s Deputy Assistant of Education joins as advisor and Yoli Chisholm, Former Director of Digital Marketing at Microsoft joins the management team.

Q1 2018
Private Beta Release
STEAMRole app goes into private beta with a limited group of role models and users

RoleCoin ICO Crowdsale
35% of total RoleCoin supply is sold to investors during pre-ICO and public Crowdsale.

Q2 2018
Public Beta Release
STEAMRole app goes into public beta.

RoleCoin Exchange Listing
RoleCoin is listed on a top altcoin exchange.

Q3 2018
Proof-of-Progress Public Release
RoleCoin makes its Proof-of-Progress dashboard available to foundations, impact investors, family offices and non-profit organizations focused on STEM/STEAM training and development.

Q4 2018
3rd-Party Educational training site accepts RoleCoin
RoleCoin is accepted as a payment option by an online course provider.

Inspiration
STEAMRole inspires by showcasing the job titles, salary ranges and story clips (short videos) of diverse STEAM professionals with careers in science, tech, engineering, art/design and mathematics

Guidance
STEAMRole guides by enabling users to acquire the necessary skills to be hired by following the skill roadmaps of any STEAM role model.

Rewards
STEAMRole rewards efficiently and equitably by digitally minting RoleCoins for users (steamers and role models) based on ongoing skill development and pay-it-forward contributions to the network.

Team and advisors
The team consists of an experienced and proven founder, management team and advisors who have been working together to drive the vision forward.