In March we launched a unique challenge for the Oracle ACE Program members – we invited them to participate to the Oracle ACE Program Graphics Challenge and express their creativity to design the next Oracle ACE Program graphics.

We love to create digital assets for the ACEs, such as photo templates, banners, background images, presentation templates and much more, that is why we encouraged the ACEs to let their imagination run wild and come up with fresh new ideas that can be implemented for all our members.

We received submissions throughout March and we got ideas from twelve members from all around the world: Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Netherlands,  South Africa, Spain, UK and US.

After reviewing all entries by novelty, execution of entry and utility of entry, we are happy to present to you the three winners of the competition and their designs:

1st
Kosseila Haddalene, ACE Pro

Kosseila is a blogger and tech enthusiast with more than 16 years of IT experience. He came up with some amazing graphics that showcase your journey as an ACE.

ACE 1  ACE 2

2nd
 Ambili Thottathil, ACE Associate

Ambili describes herself as an IT professional by career, a apeaker by passion and an artist by soul. She created some cool profile picture templates that all ACEs can use.

ACE 3  ACE 4

3rd
 Sean Scott, ACE Director

Sean Scott is the author of the Apress book, “Oracle on Docker: Running Oracle Databases in Linux Containers”. In his spare time, Sean enjoys cooking and running ultramarathons with his dog, Oreo. Sean came up with many catch phrases that we loved, such as the one below:

ACE 5

Honorable mentions:

Javier is an Oracle DBA, husband and father of three boys. He’s also the owner of Café Database, a “lounge place” for Oracle DBAs and Developers to chat and collaborate. He came up with innovative ways we can use the ACE spade, as you can see from the short video below:

Oliver is a solution-oriented quick thinker and has been active in DOAG since 2002. He’s also very creative and thought of a cool T-shirt design for the ACE Program:

Oracle ACE 6

We would like to congratulate our winners and thank the following ACEs for their submissions: Ahmed Jassat, ACE Associate, Anil Mahadev, ACE Associate, Andrew Bohnet, ACE Pro, Deepak Vohra, ACE Pro, Kazuhiro Takahashi, ACE Pro, Shikha Agarwal, ACE Associate, Yvonne Bakx, ACE Associate.