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Oracle Corporate CitizenshipColleen CassityExecutive DirectorOracle Education FoundationOracle Giving & Volunteers

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“When there are no boundaries to information,

learning is limitless.”

Larry EllisonCEO, Oracle

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Advancing Education

• Two programs:• Oracle Academy• ThinkQuest

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Oracle Academy

• Students gain IT and business skillsthrough hands-on experience

• High schools receive hosted software, curriculum, training, and certification resources for teaching use

• Introduction to Computer Science:• Database design & programming with SQL

• Programming with PL/SQL

• Programming with Java coming next summer

• Supports 700,000 students in 86 countries

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Oracle Education Foundation

• Independent charitable organization funded by Oracle

• Dedicated to helping students develop 21st century skills

• Provides ThinkQuest as a free service to schools globally

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ThinkQuest• Enables teachers to integrate learning

projects into curriculum and students to develop 21st century skills

• Includes:

• Projects, a protected online collaboration space

• Competition

• Library

• Professional development

• 500,000 students/teachers in 60 countries

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Did I mention it’s all free?

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Where Can I Learn More?

• academy.oracle.com • thinkquest.org• oraclefoundation.org• facebook.com/thinkquest• youtube.com/user/OracleFoundation

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