June 15—August 15 · 2026 recap








Summer season Faculty
College students from around the globe.
5 weeks of lessons.
4 weeks of capstones.
One demo day.
June 15 – August 15
2026
Demo day · capstone showcase
Scholar Tasks
The Numbers
The
Curriculum
Week 1:
Intro to Solana. Structure, transactions, PDAs, Rust, Anchor. First vault and escrow packages.
Week 2:
Token Extensions. Token 2022, switch hooks, charge limits. Problem: construct a stablecoin.
Week 3:
Pinocchio. Dropping Anchor for native Rust. Zero-copy patterns, compute unit optimization.
Week 4:
Metaplex & Codama. NFT requirements, cNFTs, customized sweet machines, producing TypeScript purchasers from IDLs.
Week 5:
Indexing. Anchor occasions, Geyser/Yellowstone gRPC streams, real-time occasion listeners.
Weeks 6–9:
Venture-focused workplace hours.
Visitor
Lecturers
Cat McGee
Developer Relations Engineer · Solana Basis
Dev Bharel
Developer Relations Engineer, AI · Solana Basis
Dean Little
Founder · Blueshift
Jacob Creech
VP Know-how · Solana Basis
Chaerin Kim
DevRel · Solana Basis
André Correia
Head of DevRel · Solana Basis
Scholar
Voices


I had been holding off on studying blockchain for a very long time as a result of I could not discover something appropriate that would encourage me. Because of Solana Summer season Faculty, I lastly discovered it and constructed a venture!
What’s
Subsequent
Solana Faculty Fall Class
College Ambassador Program






