My beginning

I've been learning about Stellar for almost 2 months, as I mentioned in my first article, I met them thanks to the Bootcamp I attended with the Women Biz community. During that period, I learned a lot about all the work they do.

This Bootcamp was possible thanks to the support that Stellar gave to this community of women, which allowed several girls to learn about DeFi, create their wallets, create their tokens among many other activities that we saw in class.

Today I want to tell you how was this educational process and how far I got and I plan to get with all that I was learning.

Steps and challenges

The classes were online on Saturdays, girls from different parts of LATAM were connected, it was very nice to meet so many people with similar interests in web3 and DeFi.

Each class we had different teachers who explained to us what decentralized finance is, what Stellar is and what opportunities we can build within this ecosystem.

From all the information, I would keep 3 things that interested me a lot:

• Knowing the Stellar ecosystem and how I can create projects in any area to work with the Stellar Foundation. During the classes you also had tasks or in this case challenges to accomplish which helped us to assimilate in a better way what we had learned. In this case, one of the challenges was to present an article where you talk about a project that interested you within the Stellar Foundation.

  I chose an educational project, because I was quite interested in how they work to promote web3 education in universities around the world, through courses, events and different activities where they teach the benefits of being in this ecosystem, this project is BAF. I recommend that you can see how they work as I was quite impressed with everything they do.

• Creating my own token. I also had the opportunity to create my own token “LOTITO”, the truth was a success because several people were interested in buying it and not only my family. It was a bit of a challenge, but the result was wonderful because not only I created it and gave it liquidity, I also created a whole story and meaning for the design of my token.

  It was a really nice experience and here I leave you some images of the creative process and I hope to make a video telling and showing you how to do it.

• Creating a personal project based on smart contracts. Another project that was exciting to create was the tokenization of Bolivian culture, in this case I had the idea that both the dances and traditions that my country has can be monetized so that lovers of this culture, Bolivians and foreigners, know the story behind it all. But also that they can contribute to the culture and economy.

And the last project I created was about entrepreneurship, a decentralized platform where people can create their businesses without so much bureaucracy, long waiting times and other latent obstacles. This would help facilitate all the processes and documentation needed to start a business, which will help boost the economy of my country.

I am quite amazed at what I was able to achieve with this Bootcamp and with the Stellar ecosystem.

Proud moments

These challenges were also scored and each week the 3 best projects were chosen as well as the three best students, I am happy to tell you that I was on the podium during all the weeks, this motivated me to continue with my education, continue creating educational articles and projects in general.

The biggest achievement I could get was to have obtained a perfect grade during the whole course, that's right, I was the best student during the Bootcamp, this was possible thanks to the dedication I put in my education as well as my curiosity and experience in content creation.

In addition, I must admit that each challenge made me get out of my comfort zone, which helped me grow not only professionally but also personally, I never tire of saying that I learned and experienced many things that today I am using them to grow as a person.

These moments are unique and I feel very proud to have put the name of my country on high, but also to have met wonderful people with whom I have a beautiful friendship.

And now that I am participating in the RiseIn and Stellar Challenge, which has allowed me to show my work at an international level and where I am also learning a lot of things about content creation in web3.

Advice and reflections

Many of the things I experienced were by chance, I did not expect it, but they led me on a path of growth, today I want to invite you to be curious, get out of your comfort zone and live your life to the fullest.

If you are interested in a specific area or field, try to follow its referents, research on the internet, take advantage of the ease of today to connect with different parts of the world and get a lot of information.

I also encourage you to participate in events, courses, talks and other activities on web3, I started this way, when attending an online event, you can search on X for active communities in English, Spanish or other languages.

Personal impact

The impact of knowing Stellar was great, I am not a developer, but I am quite interested in decentralized finance and web3 projects. In that sense, I was able to explore and create new ideas that I can execute in my country.

It also motivated me to open my own blog, where I am writing now, which is something I really like to do. Learning and sharing what I have been learning all this time with more people that maybe are just starting out.

Conclusions and my next steps

Among my next steps are:

• Continue writing educational articles.

• Take action on the projects I create about Stellar.

• To teach everything I have learned to the Bolivian community.

• And to participate actively in the web3 communities at national and international level.

I still have a lot to learn, that's why I keep passing courses, attending talks and events, I want to grow even more professionally and personally. And as a last piece of advice for today I say to you: find what you like, what makes you happy and what you are good at because then you can work with passion on it.

Maybe I went a bit off topic, but I want you to keep this last one.

Thanks for reading and have a great day.