Oracle's Silicon Valley campus is now home to a high school - here's what it's like inside

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Oracle spent $43 million to build a space for Design Tech High School on its Silicon Valley campus.

Oracle is known for its database technology, but it soon could be known for something else as well - educating kids.

Last month, the tech giant opened the doors of a brand new $43 million high school building built on its Silicon Valley campus. The building is the new home for Design Tech - also known as d.tech - a public charter school that works closely with the Oracle Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by the company.

Though four years old, d.tech didn't have a permanent home until it moved into the new building. The school, which focuses on design thinking and creative problem solving, started out with just a few classrooms inside another public high school. It later moved to a partially renovated garage.

It has the right to use the new structure for the life of the building - and is only paying $1 a year in rent to Oracle.

While d.tech's building is new, Oracle campus is a familiar locale for many of the school's 550 students. Many students have interned with the company. Many have also taken classes at its on-campus conference center that the school offers four times a year. At these classes, d.tech's students get to interact with design and engineering professionals who volunteer to help the teens do things such as develop apps or build companies.

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