Center for Talented Youth
Center for Talented Youth | |
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School type | gifted education |
Founded | 1979 |
Founder | Julian Stanley |
Authority | Johns Hopkins University |
Director | Elaine Tuttle Hansen |
Age | 6 to 17 |
Enrollment | 10000+ |
Classes offered | Mathematics, Computer Science, Humanities, and Science |
Accreditation | grades K-12[1] |
Website | cty |
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.
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.[2]
Notable alumni
Notable CTY alumni include:
- Six of 32 American Recipients of the 2006 Rhodes Scholarship.[3]
- Numerous award winners in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, including grand prize winner Benjamin "Benjy" Firester in 2018.[4]
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.[2]
- Lady Gaga, musician, actress.[5]
- 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.[6]
- Gary Marcus, a research psychologist and the author of Kluge.[7]
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and Time Person of the Year 2010.[8]
- Terence Tao, 2006 Fields Medal recipient.[9]
- Elissa Hallem, 2012 MacArthur Fellows Program, or Genius Grant for neurobiology[10]
- Jacob Lurie, 2014 MacArthur Fellows Program, or Genius Grant for mathematics[11]
- Dave Aitel, computer security professional.[12]
- Ronan Farrow, journalist, lawyer, and former government advisor.[13]
Intensive studies sites
- Lancaster (LAN)
- Carlisle (CAR)
- Baltimore (JHU)
- Saratoga (SAR)
- Los Angeles (LOS)
- Seattle (SUN)
- Princeton (PRN)
See also
References
- ^ "Accreditation Information for Schools and Parents". cty.jhu.edu. The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
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- ^ "Press Release: Center for Talented Youth Alumni Net Top Academic Honors". 2006.
- ^ "Potato power: Student wins $250,000 prize for blight solution that could save billions". 2012.
- ^ Ramakrishnan, Meera (2009-11-19). "Hopkins alumni gather for Center for Talented Youth reunion". The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26.
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- ^ Vozzella, Laura (2009-11-04). "Just like Mom (and Sister) didn't used to make". Baltimore Sun.
- ^ "Terence Tao receives 2014 CTY Distinguished Alumni Award". Center for Talented Youth.
- ^ "Studying sensory systems of fruit flies, worms a stroke of genius". UCLA Newsroom.
- ^ "Former CTY student earns MacArthur 'genius grant'". HUB Johns Hopkins University.
- ^ Aitel, Dave (2015-11-12). "How to crush it". Dailydave (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 2017-06-21.
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