

Avalanche Academy Onboarding
Avalanche Academy Onboarding — Johannesburg 🇿🇦🔺
Introduction
Join Team1 South Africa for an in-person Avalanche Academy Onboarding Lunch in Johannesburg.
This session is designed to get you set up and started on Avalanche Academy, while helping you build practical knowledge and skills around the Avalanche ecosystem.
Avalanche Academy offers learning paths that take you from blockchain and Avalanche fundamentals through to building dApps, smart contracts and more advanced Avalanche development.
Whether you’re a developer, student, founder, builder or simply interested in learning more about Avalanche, we’ll help you get onboarded, understand where to start and begin your learning journey.
The goal is simple: learn, build your skills and open yourself up to more opportunities within the Avalanche ecosystem.
No need to figure it all out alone, we’ll be going through it together.
🍽️ Lunch and welcome drinks will be provided.
Limited spots available.
🗓️ 17 October 2026
⏰ 11:00 AM
📍 Johannesburg, South Africa
🗓️ Event Program
11:00 AM — Welcome Drinks & Check-In
Arrive, grab a drink and meet the other attendees.
11:30 AM — Welcome to Avalanche & Team1
A short introduction to Avalanche, Team1 and the opportunities available within the ecosystem.
11:45 AM — Avalanche Academy Onboarding
We’ll get everyone set up on Avalanche Academy and walk through the platform, learning paths and where to start.
1:00 PM — Lunch & Connect
We’ll take a break for lunch and give everyone some time to connect with other builders, students and community members.
2:00 PM — Back to Avalanche Academy
We’ll continue the onboarding, work through the Academy and help everyone get comfortable navigating the resources and learning paths available.
3:00 PM — Wrap-Up & Next Steps
We’ll close off the session with next steps so you can continue learning, building and exploring opportunities within Avalanche.
🔺 About Avalanche Academy
Avalanche Academy is part of the Avalanche Builder Hub and provides free learning resources and hands-on courses for people who want to understand and build on Avalanche.
Learning paths range from blockchain and Avalanche fundamentals to dApps, smart contracts, interoperability, Avalanche L1 development and other more advanced topics.
Participants can continue learning beyond the event and work towards certifications through the Academy.
🧩 About Team1
Team1 is a global network of builders, developers, creatives and community members growing the Avalanche ecosystem.
With 600+ members across 60+ countries and connections across 130+ universities, Team1 supports the ecosystem through workshops, hackathons, meetups, university initiatives, builder support and community-led events around the world.
Team1 helps connect people with the resources, education and opportunities they need to go from learning about Avalanche to actively participating and building within the ecosystem.
Come ready to learn. Leave ready to keep building. 🔺
And bring along your Laptop!