Oracle's Silicon Valley campus is now home to a high school — here's what it's like inside (ORCL)

Oracle is known for its database technology, but could soon be known for something else, educating children.

Last month, the technology giant opened the doors to a new $ 43 million high school building built on its Silicon Valley campus. The building is the new home of 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.

Although he was four years old, d.tech did not have a permanent home until he moved to the new building. The school, which focuses on design thinking and creative problem solving, started with only a few classrooms within another public high school. Then he moved to a partially renovated garage.

You have the right to use the new structure for the life of the building, and you are only paying $ 1 per year in rent to Oracle.

While the construction of d.tech is new, the Oracle campus is a familiar place for many of the 550 students at the school. Many students have interned with the company. Many have also taken classes at their conference center on campus that the school offers four times a year. In these classes, d.tech students interact with design and engineering professionals who volunteer to help teens do things like develop applications or create businesses.

Here's what it's like to go to school on the campus of a tech giant:

Oracle's headquarters is in Redwood City, California, about 20 miles south of San Francisco.

The company started building its campus in 1989. Its blue glass office buildings were intended to call to mind the databases that made Oracle famous.

The campus has a lot of walking paths and a small lake that employees can jog around during their breaks. 

The d.tech building is on the east side of the campus, just steps away from Oracle's main offices.