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Las Vegas, Nevada

Rebel Odds

Rebel Odds was born from a simple belief: if students had real skin in the game, they'd take their academic futures more seriously — and so would the people betting on them.

The Problem We're Solving

Las Vegas Education by the Numbers

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CCSD Graduation Rate
Class of 2024 — nearly 1 in 5 students doesn't graduate on time
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Math Proficiency
Less than 1 in 3 CCSD students are proficient in math (grades 3–8)
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ELA Proficiency
Only 39% of Clark County students are proficient in English Language Arts
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Students Statewide
CCSD alone serves 63.5% of all Nevada students — the 5th largest district in the US
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Chronic Absenteeism
Nearly 1 in 3 CCSD students miss 10% or more of school days each year
Our Origin

What if the market could motivate students?

Las Vegas is a city built on odds. Everyone here understands a bet. So the question became: what if we gamified academic accountability? What if traders could buy contracts on whether a student would pass their classes, maintain their GPA, or complete their semester credits — and students knew people were watching, rooting, and investing?

Prediction markets have a remarkable track record of aggregating information and forecasting outcomes more accurately than individual experts. We wanted to bring that same mechanism to education — creating a social contract between students and their community that goes beyond grades on a report card.

Rebel Odds is named after the UNLV Runnin' Rebels — a team that represents the scrappy, underdog spirit of a city that built itself out of desert sand. That's the same spirit we see in Las Vegas students every day. We're just building the market to prove it.

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Less than one-third of Clark County students in grades three through eight are proficient in math. Fewer than 1 in 5 eleventh graders demonstrated college readiness on the ACT.

Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2024
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Largest School District in the US
CCSD serves over 300,000 students across Clark County. The scale of the challenge — and the opportunity — is enormous.
Our Mission

Transparency creates accountability. Accountability creates outcomes.

When a trader buys a YES contract on a student passing their class, something shifts. The community has a stake in the outcome. The market price becomes a real-time signal of confidence.

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Price Discovery
Market prices aggregate the collective wisdom of everyone watching a student — peers, mentors, family — into a single, honest probability.
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Student Agency
When students see traders betting on them, they internalize accountability in a way that grades alone never achieve.
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Feedback Loops
Real-time odds give students and advisors early warning signals — a falling YES price is a call to action, not a post-mortem.
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Community Stakes
Las Vegas is a city of bettors. We're channeling that culture toward the thing that matters most: the next generation.
How We Got Here

The Rebel Odds Story

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The Idea
Four UNLV students, frustrated by Las Vegas's education statistics, ask a simple question: could prediction markets change how students relate to their own academic futures?
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Research & Validation
The team dives into CCSD data. They find staggering gaps: 30% math proficiency, 33% chronic absenteeism, an 18.5% dropout rate.
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Building the MVP
Armed with a Supabase backend, a Next.js frontend, and an AMM-based pricing engine, the team builds the first version of Rebel Odds. Mock contracts, paper tokens, real market mechanics. The hackathon clock starts ticking.
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Launch
Rebel Odds goes live as a paper-trading platform. No real money. Real accountability.
The Builders

Team Rebel Odds

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Dylan Aguilar
Frontend
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Andre Lee
Database
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Gongsak Kittiyan
Frontend
V
Victor Sarmiento
Backend

⚠️ Paper Trading Only. Rebel Tokens are virtual currency with no monetary value. Rebel Odds is an educational demonstration platform. No real money is involved.