Recent Posts by Kristen Salem

Oracle Academy member institutions across India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal joined our Oracle Academy Student Virtual Day—a unique online virtual conference with Oracle experts presenting key technology and IT career topics to help attendees build their technical and industry knowledge. Student registrations hit a record number with more than 11,000 attending to learn about Big Data, NoSQL database, IoT smart devices, artificial intelligence...

Written by Chris Saxon. SQL. You’ve mastered the basics. You write where clauses in your sleep. You can throw together a join with ease. But you can’t help but feel there’s more to it. You’ve played with subqueries, but struggle to get to grips with them. You’ve seen colleagues perform SQL wizardry, transforming rows to columns. But you don’t know how. Null continues to confound you. SQL is the most widely used data access language there is. So whether you’re a developer, data...

Hones Coding and Creative Skills for Students and Teachers in Local Schools Oracle Academy, Oracle’s flagship philanthropic educational program, recently hosted a “Code Together with Oracle Academy” event in Sri Lanka. The initiative supports the country’s advancement of computer science education and inspires students’ creativity. Around 120 students between the ages of 12-14 years old across 10 schools in the Western Province attended the event aimed at sharpening their...

On June 19, 2017, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) announced the recipients of the second annual Oracle Academy Scholarship for the 2017 CSTA Conference, which was held July 8-11 in Baltimore, Maryland. Oracle Academy sponsored US $35,000 in scholarship awards to support first-time attendance at the annual Computer Science Teachers Association conference for thirty-five teachers. The Oracle Academy Scholarships covered the attendees’ conference registration...

Oracle Academy was a proud sponsor of the second annual WeTeach_CS Summit, in Austin, Texas, organized by the University of Texas (UT) at Austin’s Center for STEM Education. Created specifically to help K-12 Computer Science (CS) educators, the summit offered a line-up of national speakers, panel discussions, and breakout sessions to support computer science education. Denise Hobbs, regional director, Oracle Academy, North America, assisted in presenting the UT Austin Computer...

At Oracle Academy, we believe everyone should have the skills and opportunities to achieve their dreams. This belief drives our commitment to support continuous computer science learning at all levels. We want students to learn fundamental computer science concepts and develop their IT and business skills to have the knowledge and skills that will open career doors regardless of industry. We want educators to keep pace with current technology and bring industry authenticity...

Part of Oracle’s Greater $3.3 Billion Annual Investment to Accelerate Digital Literacy Worldwide On December 1, 2016, the European Commission and DIGITALEUROPE launched the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition, a multi-stakeholder partnership to bolster computer science (CS) and coding proficiency at all levels within Europe’s workforce pipeline. In conjunction, Oracle announced a three-year investment totaling $1.4 billion in direct and in-kind support of CS education throughout...

Oracle Academy Greece was honored to receive four Education Business Awards for recognition of best practices in entrepreneurship and innovation resulting in a positive impact in Greece’s educational system. Gold Award – Digital EducationJane Richardson, director, Oracle Academy EMEA, received the Gold Award for Digital Education recognizing educational organizations that focuses on digital technology and provides learners with a modern online experience, provides digital and...