The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a
gifted education
Gifted education (also known as gifted and talented education (GATE), talented and gifted programs (TAG), or G/T education) is a broad group of special practices, procedures, and theories used in the education of children who have been identified a ...
program for school-age children founded in 1979 by psychologist
Julian Stanley
Julian Cecil Stanley (July 9, 1918 – August 12, 2005) was an American psychologist. He was an advocate of accelerated education for academically gifted children. He founded the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY), as wel ...
at
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
. 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
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for students in grades K to 12 by the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
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.
CTY published the
''Imagine'' magazine that provided educational opportunities and resources and student-written content for middle and high school students. The magazine was discontinued in June 2018.
History
In 2022, about one-third of CTY's summer sessions were canceled due to a lack of staffing
and staff background checks not clearing in time.
Admission requirements
CTY first requires students to sign up for an account and membership, which costs $50 for U.S. students and $60 for international students. They must then submit scores from a qualifying test to determine if they are at "Advanced CTY-Level" (defined as showing ability four grade levels above current enrolled grade) or "CTY-Level" (defined as showing ability two grade levels above current enrolled grade). Eligible test scores include the
SCAT,
PSAT,
SAT
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,
ACT, and STB (Spatial Test Battery). Students receive their course eligibility results online.
Operation
Governance
Sites
Programming
Reception
Former CTY executive director
Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Elaine Tuttle Hansen is an American academic administrator, scholar and university professor who served as the executive director of the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University from 2011 to 2018 and the 8th President of Bates Colle ...
(2011-2018) was 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''.
In July 2004, CTY was featured in an article in ''
The New Yorker
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''.
In 2006, the camp was shown in an hour-long CNN special on gifted children.
Notable alumni
Notable CTY alumni include:
* Six of 32 American Recipients of the 2006
Rhodes Scholarship
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
*
Lady Gaga
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, musician, actress
*
Sergey Brin
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, co-founder of Google
*
George Hotz
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, hacker and founder of comma.ai
*
Hollis Robbins
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Education and early career
Robbins was born and raised ...
, academic and essayist
*
Evanna Lynch
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Born in County Louth, Ireland, Lynch made her film de ...
, who portrays Luna Lovegood in the
Harry Potter movies
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, attended the Irish Centre For Talented Youth in Dublin
*
Gary Marcus
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, a research psychologist and the author of Kluge
*
Mark Zuckerberg
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, founder of
Facebook
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and
Time Person of the Year 2010
*
Terence Tao
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, 2006
Fields Medal
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recipient
*
Elissa Hallem, 2012
MacArthur Fellows Program
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, or
Genius Grant
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for neurobiology
*
Jacob Lurie
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Life
When he was a student in the Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science ...
, 2014
MacArthur Fellows Program
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, or
Genius Grant
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for mathematics
*
Dave Aitel
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, computer security professional
*
Ronan Farrow
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, journalist, lawyer, and former government advisor
*
Andrew Yang
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, Democratic candidate for 2021 New York City Mayor election
*
Marques Brownlee
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, YouTube technology reviewer
*
Curtis Yarvin
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, Blogger also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug
See also
*
Centre for the Talented Youth of Ireland
The Centre for the Talented Youth (Ireland) (CTY Ireland) is a youth programme for students between the ages of six and seventeen of high academic ability in Ireland, run by Dr. Colm O'Reilly.
There are sibling projects around the world, most n ...
*
Gifted
Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is a characteristic of children, variously defined, that motivates differences in school programming. It is thought to persist as a trait into adult life, wi ...
*
Gifted Education
Gifted education (also known as gifted and talented education (GATE), talented and gifted programs (TAG), or G/T education) is a broad group of special practices, procedures, and theories used in the education of children who have been identified a ...
*
Imagine Magazine
*
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
*
Dr. Julian Stanley
References
External links
CTY Official WebsiteUnofficial CTY Student-Based Wiki
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Gifted education
Summer camps in the United States
Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools
1979 establishments in Maryland