Summer School
Students from around the world.
Five weeks of classes.
Four weeks of capstones.
One demo day.
June 15 – August 15
2026
Demo day · capstone showcase
Student Projects
The Numbers
- 1,164
- applicants
- 69
- countries
- 5
- weeks of live classes
- 4
- weeks of capstone builds
- 20
- teams presented at demo day
The
Curriculum
Week 1:
Intro to Solana. Architecture, transactions, PDAs, Rust, Anchor. First vault and escrow programs.
Week 2:
Token Extensions. Token 2022, transfer hooks, rate limits. Challenge: build a stablecoin.
Week 3:
Pinocchio. Dropping Anchor for native Rust. Zero-copy patterns, compute unit optimization.
Week 4:
Metaplex & Codama. NFT standards, cNFTs, custom candy machines, generating TypeScript clients from IDLs.
Week 5:
Indexing. Anchor events, Geyser/Yellowstone gRPC streams, real-time event listeners.
Weeks 6–9:
Project-focused office hours.
Guest
Lecturers
Cat McGee
Developer Relations Engineer · Solana Foundation
Dev Bharel
Developer Relations Engineer, AI · Solana Foundation
Dean Little
Founder · Blueshift
Jacob Creech
VP Technology · Solana Foundation
Chaerin Kim
DevRel · Solana Foundation
André Correia
Head of DevRel · Solana Foundation
Student
Voices
I had been holding off on learning blockchain for a long time because I couldn't find anything suitable that could motivate me. Thanks to Solana Summer School, I finally learned it and built a project!
What’s
Next
Solana School Fall Class
University Ambassador Program