Blockchain basics
Beginner-friendly workshops connecting core concepts to real businesses, careers, security, and policy.
Black Blockchain Student Network
Access grows through student leadership.
BBSN is a student-led initiative supported by WVBF that expands access to blockchain and emerging technology education through Black student organizations, peer learning, and campus leadership.
Learn together.Lead from campus.
01 / THE PURPOSE
Build access where students already lead.
Campus organizations are trusted places for peers to learn, ask questions, and create new opportunities together.
BBSN works with Black student organizations and student leaders to make blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, and emerging technology careers more visible and approachable.
Programming can begin with a fundamentals workshop and grow into peer learning, cross-campus leadership, industry conversations, founder exposure, or project-based activity. The goal is not to create another passive club. It is to help students understand the landscape and build their own way into it.
BBSN and MISSION:BUIDL are separate initiatives.
BBSN centers access through Black student organizations and student-led networks. MISSION:BUIDL is WVBF's broader flagship student-builder pipeline. A BBSN chapter or event can connect students into MISSION:BUIDL opportunities, but the two names should not be used interchangeably.
Focus areas
Education that can grow into leadership.
BBSN is designed for flexible campus delivery and collaboration with existing student-led organizations.
Peer learning
Resources and guided conversations students can continue inside their organization.
Campus leadership
Support for student leaders who want to organize programming and connect across campuses.
Career pathways
Exposure to technical, business, policy, legal, finance, security, and infrastructure roles.
Documented BBSN programming includes campus workshops on blockchain, AI, and the future of infrastructure at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Colorado Denver, delivered with student-led National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) college chapters.
These sessions connected technical concepts to energy, finance, data centers, compute, robotics, careers, and the role students can play in the next generation of infrastructure.
Blockchain fundamentalsAI + computeCybersecurityDigital infrastructureCareer pathwaysStudent leadershipEntrepreneurshipPolicy literacy
02 / PROGRAM HISTORY
From Colorado campuses to a wider network.
Programming is documented activity, not a claim of formal institutional partnership.
Bring BBSN to campus
Start with the audience you already have.
BBSN can collaborate with a student organization, student affairs office, academic department, diversity initiative, innovation center, or campus-wide coalition.
One campus workshop
A focused, beginner-friendly session tailored to the host organization and student interests.
Student leader cohort
A short series helping campus leaders build knowledge, programming confidence, and peer connections.
Cross-campus convening
A shared session or roundtable connecting Black student leaders, builders, educators, and industry guests.
Expand access
Start the conversation on your campus.
Tell us about your student organization, audience, and what you want students to understand or build next.