Recent Posts by Jane Richardson

Oracle Academy members have been excited to learn that they have access to the Oracle Cloud Free Tier as well as a wealth of classroom resources and teaching materials, assessments, and reporting tools in the Oracle Academy Member Hub. One such member is Assistant Professor Dr.Nashwan Alromema, Academic Affairs Representative, of the Computer Science Department Faculty of Computing and Information Technology- Rabigh, King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia. “On behalf of...

Beyond is a pre-accelerator program created and run by Junior Achievement in Bulgaria. The team behind the program has over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship and the creation of innovative start-up companies. The program applies an open innovation model, creating multidisciplinary teams of people with varying experience and competencies, who create minimal viable products (MVPs) of their ideas. Oracle Academy is pleased to support this important program. After...

In November 2020, the online Oracle Academy and Diversity Opportunity event Digital Jibes Hack took place. Digital Jibes Hack is an entirely digital event organized by Oracle Academy Italy focused on digital learning and creativity. The Sprint Call Digital Jibes Hack took place over three days from November 24-26, during which students participated in implementing a project to create an innovative solution in the field of ICT. During the event, participants, divided into...

This year Oracle Academy contributed to the CARNET Users Conference in Croatia. Known for two decades simply as “CUC” this conference is now in its 22nd year, held online this year. The conference is organized by the Croatian Academic and Research Network (or CARNET) and has grown over the past two decades into the largest national and regional conference dedicated to IT usage in education. This year, with more than 2,000 participants, and under the thought-provoking title...

The first virtual Learning Experience with Oracle Academy and Diversity Opportunity took place on October 28, 2020, for two hours. Oracle Academy Italy, represented by Roberta Battagli, led the Learning Experience Let’s Break the Box, an online event dedicated to students of high schools in the technical/IT field. Battagli spoke to students about the importance of Oracle Academy as a tool for acquiring and honing technical skills for educational and professional growth in the...

On October 24, 2020, the educational complex South-West delivered a Greenfoot coding workshop for students from Moscow School #875. This workshop was part of a wider project of collaboration amongst a number of educational institutions in Russia. The project used one of the Oracle Academy Education Bytes’ hands-on labs: the “Beginner: Greenfoot–Robot Game”. During the workshop, students learned basic object-oriented programming concepts while creating 2-D games using Java. The...

Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is an event held once a year to celebrate entrepreneurship, innovation and business creators who drive startups and turn ideas into reality, fostering economic growth and the well-being of their communities. GEW is held in over 160 countries around the world, including Croatia. Now in its fifth year, this event was held virtually the week of November 16-22, 2020, by the Student Entrepreneurship Incubator, the Entrepreneurship Center Split,...

Varaždin, the picturesque and colorful city in northwest Croatia, also known as its “baroque capital” because of numerous palaces and churches built during that period, is the seat of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, a constituent member of the University of Zagreb. The Faculty has been focused, since its very beginnings in the 1960s, on the practical application of information and communication technologies in the fields of economics and business management. As a...

On October 21, 2020, the ElSewedy Technical Academy (STA) celebrated the graduation of a new cohort of honors top students while signing a cooperation agreement with Oracle for Oracle Academy to  provide free curriculum, information technology, and access to services including Oracle Autonomous Database. This agreement will help train the school’s educators in the latest industry-relevant technologies so they can pass on the knowledge and skills to their students, and provide...