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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Eleven student teams from Egypt, Romania, Serbia, Singapore and the United States earned top honors in the 2008 Oracle Global Data Modeling Competition.

The students, ages 15-19, were honored for their outstanding analytical and technology skills used to create a database that tracks and stores meteorological data.

Student teams from Romania took the top three honors in the competition for the third consecutive year.

The winners, in order, are:

1. Colegiul National de Informatica “Tudor Vianu”
a. Livia Toca, Teacher
b. Project Name: Energon

2. Colegiul National de Informatica “Tudor Vianu”
a. Corina Achina, Teacher
b. Project Name: Marabi

3. Colegiul “Mihai Viteazul”
a. Miora Gheorghe, Teacher
b. Project Name: Regen

4. Racunarska Gimanzija, Serbia
a. Du�a Zoranovic, Teacher
b. Project Name: Global Airlines

5. Arkansas School For Mathematics Sciences, USA
a. Daniel Moix. Teacher
b. Project Name: Global Awareness Organization

6. Temasek Polytechnic School, Singapore
a. How Woon Ling, Teacher
b. Project Name: Aeolus Corporation

7. Zahran Experimental School, Egypt
a. Dalia El Sayed Mohamed Zaky, Teachers
b. Project Name: Pharaon Navigation

8. Elryadia School, Egypt
a. Soha Taha Elbous, Teacher
b. Project Name: Wind Spark

9. Gamal Abdel Nasser Experimental School, Egypt
a. Raafat Mohamed Rashad, Teacher
b. Project Name: Solar Clean Car

10. Elhadissa-Elfagr Elgadid School, Egypt
a. Samia Said Melkheya, Teacher
b. Project Name: SNDS

11. Stratford High School, USA
a. Michael Eason, Teacher
b. Project Name: WeatherCo

Students from the top three teams will receive the following prizes:

o 1st Place: $1,000.00 USD Scholarship per student and a trip to the United States where they will present their winning entry at the Oracle Academy Institute.
o 2nd Place: $500.00 USD Scholarship per student
o 3rd Place: $250.00 USD Scholarship per student

The Oracle Academy sponsors the annual competition to help students develop the business and technology skills required for 21st century careers. Students who participate in the competition utilize advanced analytical and technology skills - skills that are in high-demand in a global workforce.

The competition, which is open to students from participating Oracle Academy institutions worldwide, challenges students to analyze the requirements of a particular business and develop a data model that demonstrates the flow of information within that business, a sophisticated process that is typically taught in the university setting and is critical to building database systems.

The 2008 competition included more than 100 entries. A global team of volunteer experts from industry and education reviewed each entry for business, technical, and communications excellence.