Recent Posts by Richard Delgado Cascante

On October 13, 2020, Oracle Academy México hosted the first event to celebrate and commemorate the Ada Lovelace legacy. On online event that took place in two sessions drew more than 700 attendees. It was led by eight STEM female leaders from Oracle Academy member institutions and Oracle Women’s Leadership advocates to commemorate the woman who was the first programmer in history. Ada Lovelace not only was the creator of the first programming code, but she also visualized...

The pandemic has forced all of us to explore uncharted territories. Like all of us, institutions, their faculty, and students have been facing over the last months the most challenging times of their lives. With no face-to-face time, professional development and growth opportunities for teachers also have been reduced to a bare minimum or eliminated. Educators have not had the opportunity for the usual in-person conferences, training, or ideas exchange. As a philanthropic...

On October 13, 2020, Oracle Academy México hosted the first event to celebrate and commemorate the Ada Lovelace legacy. On online event that took place in two sessions drew more than 700 attendees. It was led by eight STEM female leaders from Oracle Academy member institutions and Oracle Women’s Leadership advocates to commemorate the woman who was the first programmer in history. Ada Lovelace not only was the creator of the first programming code, but she also visualized...

With the aim of continuing to educate students and train them in digital skills, SENA signed a zero-cost alliance with Oracle on August 31, 2020, in Bogotá. Through this agreement, instructors and learners will be able to access the Oracle Academy educational platform, known for its variety and quality of tools that link technology with education. This alliance will benefit about 400 instructors and more than 40,000 students from 95 training centers in 31 regional areas on...

In August 2020, Oracle Academy signed an agreement in Bogota with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, Colombia, to help the country’s students and their teachers learn technological skills essential for Industry 4.0. Oracle Academy will work with Colombia’s government on developing initiatives to reduce the existing gap in technology skills in the country. This pact represents the parties’ commitment to training youth in essential digital skills. With...

The National Institute for Professional Training (INFOP) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in a strategic alliance with Oracle Academy, recently presented the first generation of teachers trained in the Java programming language during a historic virtual graduation.     This is the first milestone of a partnership signed in February 2020 that aimed to prepare INFOP faculty to teach technology topics using Oracle Academy resources and curriculum, including Java and...

Using the new free Oracle Academy Cloud Program, teachers and students are accessing the cloud and innovative technologies remotely for free. Since the end of May 2020, the School of Informatics and Telecommunications of the Duoc UC Professional Institute, Chile, which has more than 14,000 students preparing for different careers, began teaching database subjects solely in the cloud. The Cloud Program was implemented for classes that required database laboratories in...

At the most recent Oracle Academy Day, on February 11, 2020, Oracle Academy staff welcomed 20 students of systems engineering from the Universidad del Valle de México (UVM). At this event, Oracle Academy staff and Oracle volunteers encouraged the students and inspired them to be disruptive, to innovate their thinking about the issues of everyday life, and to develop skills that will open doors for them in the labor market. Carlos Aguilar, Oracle Solution Engineering Director,...

On February 5, 2020, the first Oracle Academy Day of the year was held in Mexico. We were pleased to receive 18 students from the Technological University of Nezahualcóyotl and the University of the Americas of Mexico City. The GenO’s, the intern group of Oracle Mexico, delivered five talks to the students.Carlos González and Alberto Álvarez talked about emerging technologies, deepening the students’ understanding of issues around blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine...