Stratford
High School Announces
Strong First Year Showing in the 2008 Oracle Academy
Global Data Modeling Competition
Stratford’s
Student Team Places 11th in International Competition
Against Teams from China, India, Romania, the United Kingdom,
and the U.S.
Goose Creek,
SC,
May 21, 2008:
Stratford High School students make strong showing
in international competition against students from China, India, Romania, the United Kingdom,
and the U.S.
Now in its eighth year, Oracle’s Global Data Modeling Competition
has been dominated in recent years by high school students from Romania. With
its first entry into the annual competition, Stratford students have made a strong
statement.
Stratford’s team placed 11th
overall and 2nd among U.S. teams. Three students, Ethan
Francis, Willis Long, and Michael Rojas, made up Stratford’s team. They were among twenty-one
students taking Database Design and Programming with SQL. The
course, taught for the first time this year at
Stratford, is designed to provide students a
strong foundation in database design and programming using current
industry techniques and technology. The class was divided into seven
teams and used the Data Modeling Competition as the basis for a
project assignment in the class. The project that ranked highest
using the Data Modeling Competition’s criteria was submitted to
Oracle in this year’s competition.
“Although all seven teams worked hard to apply
what they had learned regarding analyzing business situations and
developing a data model, only one team’s model could be entered in
the competition. I am very happy for my students that their design
fared so well,” says Michael Eason, instructor for the database
class. “It was exciting to see my students motivated by the
competitive nature of the assignment.”
The 2008 competition included 110 entries. A
global team of volunteer experts from industry and education
reviewed each entry for business, technical and communications
excellence.
The annual Oracle
Academy
competition is open to
Oracle
Academy institutions
worldwide and challenges student teams to analyze business
requirements and develop a data model, a sophisticated process that
is typically taught in the university setting and is critical to
building database systems.
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software
company. The course, Database Design and Programming with SQL, was
developed by Oracle and is provided to participating schools.
Students access lessons and instructional material using an Oracle
educational web site, and use the same database programming
environment that is used by businesses worldwide.
Stratford 2007-2008
Database Design Competition
1st Place Team
