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# Welcome to Catalyst

### Welcome to Catalyst

Catalyst school is a place to experiment with onboarding people to Project Catalyst.

Catalyst is a great place to connect with new people and learn about new ideas.\
Often these new relations and ideas will incubate into funded projects.\
It's also governance experimentation where every contribution increases your standing.

We would be interested to learn how did you make your way here.

* How did you find out about Cardano?
* Why did you join Catalyst?