The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a gifted education program for school-age children founded in 1979 by psychologist Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins University. It was established as a research study into how academically advanced children learn, and became the first program to identify academically talented students through above-grade-level testing and provide them with challenging learning opportunities. CTY offers summer, online, and family programs to students from around the world and has nearly 30,000 program enrollments annually. CTY is accredited for students in grades K to 12 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
CTY publishes Imagine magazine that provides educational opportunities and resources and student-written content to middle and high school students. It is published by CTY five times per year.
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Publicity
CTY executive director Elaine Tuttle Hansen is an advocate for educating bright students. She has been interviewed by National Public Radio and published on the Opinion-Editorial pages of The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, and The Baltimore Sun.
CTY was featured in a July 2004 article in The New Yorker magazine entitled "Nerd Camp". CTY was shown in an hour-long CNN special on gifted children in 2006.
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Alumni and Students
Notable CTY alumni include:
- 6 of 32 American Recipients of the 2006 Rhodes Scholarship.
- Numerous award winners in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, including grand prize winners in 2007 and 2012.
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
- Lady Gaga, musician, actress.
- George Hotz, hacker and founder of comma.ai.
- Evanna Lynch, who portrays Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter movies, attended the Irish Centre For Talented Youth in Dublin.
- Gary Marcus, a research psychologist and the author of Kluge.
- Matt Zimmerman, chief technologist of Ubuntu.
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and Time Person of the Year 2010.
- Terence Tao, 2006 Fields Medal recipient.
- Elissa Hallem, 2012 MacArthur Fellows Program, or Genius Grant for neurobiology
- Jacob Lurie, 2014 MacArthur Fellows Program, or Genius Grant for mathematics
- Jack Andraka, scientist, cancer researcher.
- Heidi Wong, poet, painter and namesake of the CTY Heidi Wong Scholarship Fund.
- Aamoy Gupta, co-founder of Advanced Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
- Dave Aitel, computer security professional.
Intensive Studies Sites
- Lancaster (LAN)
- Carlisle (CAR)
- Baltimore (JHU)
- Saratoga (SAR)
- Los Angeles (LOS)
- Seattle (SUN)
See also
References
External links
- CTY Official Website
- RealCTY, an unofficial CTY wiki
- A Day in the Life of a CTY Student
- A CTY Unofficial Discord Server
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