Raunak Chowdhury noticed something right away whenever he attended blockchain tech meetups.
每当劳纳克·乔杜里参加区块链技术会议时，他马上就注意到了一些事情。
Everyone there was at least twice my age.
那里的每个人都比我大一倍。
Blockchain is the decentralized, distributed ledger technology that makes cryptocurrency transactions like Bitcoin run.
区块链是一种分散的分布式账本技术，它使比特币等加密货币交易得以运行。
It has major implications for banking and supply chain industries by reducing the need for intermediary parties.
它通过减少对中介方的需求，对银行业和供应链行业产生了重大影响。
Tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft and IBM are already exploring it, but it likely won't be mainstream for another 10 or 20 years.
亚马逊、微软和IBM等科技巨头已经在探索它，但它很可能在10年或20年内不会成为主流。

At that time, you're not gonna be the principal consumer. The principal consumer will be the adults of that working world, which are right now the high school and college students.
那时，你不会是主要的消费者。最主要的消费群体将是那个工作世界的成年人，他们现在是高中生和大学生。

That's why the 18-year old decided to start Blockchains For Schools.
这就是为什么18岁的他决定建立“学校区块链”。
Blockchains For Schools connects high school and college students to the blockchain industry, through mentorships and contests like the "Hack BFS" Ideation Challenge.
“学校区块链”通过区块链思维挑战赛将高中生和大学生与区块链行业联系起来。
University of California Santa Barbara senior Alexis de Landes was part of the winning team.
加州大学圣巴巴拉分校大四学生亚历克西斯·德兰德斯是获胜队伍的一员。

I didn't expect it. I mean we had a great team, we did a good project, but you know, it's always a surprise.
我没想到。我是说我们有一个很棒的团队，我们做了一个很好的项目，但你知道，这总是一个惊喜。

de Landes and his team came up with the idea for E-Z Ether, a smart contract that prevents money loss when blockchain tokens are transferred from one digital wallet to another.
德兰德斯和他的团队提出了E-Z以太的想法，这是一种智能合约，当区块链代币从一个数字钱包转移到另一个钱包时，可以防止金钱损失。
We won an interview with a Mozilla incubator and if they like our project they can invest more than $70,000.
我们赢得了一个Mozilla孵化器的面试，如果他们喜欢我们的项目，他们可以投资超过7万美元。
It was actually really impressive because a lot of them came very prepared.
这真的很让人印象深刻，因为他们中的很多人都准备好了。
They already had questions that they were going to ask and they you know, obviously thought through this a lot.
他们已经有问题要问了，你知道，显然他们考虑了很多。

Anthony Lusardi works at blockchain startup Digital Asset and is a student mentor.
安东尼·卢萨迪在区块链初创公司“数字资产”工作，是学生导师。
The entire space has barely existed for 10 years now. And so that's about the amount of time it takes to become an expert.
整个领域仅仅存在了十年，这也是成为专家的时间。
When the technology is so new that no formal education exists for it, Blockchains For Schools promotes learning through doing.
这项技术如此之新，以至于没有正规的教育，学校的区块链促进了从实践中学习。
Tina Trinh, VOA news, New York
蒂娜·特里恩，美国之音新闻，纽约