Recent Posts by Richard Delgado Cascante

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...

In February 2020, Oracle Academy Latin America signed two new partnership agreements covering more than 90,000 students in Honduras and El Salvador. These agreements will help both countries provide free industry-relevant computing education curriculum and technology resources to students and provide them with the workforces and digital capabilities they need to compete in the 21st century. In San Salvador, El Salvador, on February 6, 2020, Oracle Academy signed an agreement...

In November 2019, Kroton Educational teachers spent a week advancing their Java knowledge. They attended the Oracle Academy Java Fundamentals training at Anhanguera Vila Mariana University. These professors, who teach a variety of disciplines, were able to hone their Java skills and learn about new Java resources available to them through the Oracle Academy program, including theoretical curriculum and hands-on labs for classroom practice. Both are useful in helping them share...

Oracle Academy in Brazil was pleased to recently support the Centro Paula Souza (CPS) Academic Hackathon Final event on November 5, 2019. This exciting event was attended by 10 finalist teams, among the 128 teams from 17 CPS schools that participated in the competition. The 10 teams presented their projects, which were evaluated by jury members consisting of 10 evaluators and attended by two Oracle collaborators: Patricia Teixeira (Oracle Academy) and Patricia Taniguchi (LAD...

Through a recent agreement with the Unit of Higher Secondary Education Industrial Technology and Services (UEMSTIS), Oracle Academy has incorporated more than 400 institutions into its program in México to continue to advance computing education in the region. The Unit of Higher Secondary Education Industrial Technology and Services is a unit attached to the Undersecretary of Higher Secondary Education (SEMS), under the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) that offers upper...

Oracle Academy continues to add to efforts and collaborations throughout Latin America through the signing of collaborative agreements, thus enhancing the impact and scope of the program. In the Dominican Republic within the Caribbean region, the Digital Republic program has the objective of promoting inclusion of information and communication technologies in productive educational, governmental and citizen services processes. To help in these efforts, Oracle Academy signed a...

On October 10, 2019, Oracle Academy closed the SEMINFO (Computer Week) and Sempescom (Research and Computing Week) events at Tiradentes University, in Aracaju, Southeast Brazil, with an engaging Oracle Academy Day event. The Oracle Academy Day had an extensive and activity-packed schedule. In the afternoon, a Robotics and Java Programming Workshop was led by Fabiana Valente, Oracle Academy Country Manager, and Patricia Villa Nova, Oracle Brazil, followed by a Hands-On with...

In July 2019, the Oracle office in São Paulo, Brazil, welcomed a small crowd of about 50 high school students and 10 teachers at an awards ceremony for the winners of the 5th Programming Marathon at the Paula Souza Center. ETEC Guaianazes, led by Professor Prof. Érico de Souza Veriscimo, was the winner of the competition, with three winning teams: Deus_Seja_Louvado (1st Place), NoisYTech (2nd) and Neverland (3rd). Oracle Academy provided awards and the support for the marathon...