The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a

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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 ...

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

. 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

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for students in grades K to 12 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. 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,

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, ACT, and STB (Spatial Test Battery). Students receive their course eligibility results online.

Operation

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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 ''

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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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, who portrays Luna Lovegood in the

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, attended the Irish Centre For Talented Youth in Dublin *

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, a research psychologist and the author of Kluge * Mark Zuckerberg, founder of

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and Time Person of the Year 2010 * Terence Tao, 2006 Fields Medal recipient * Elissa Hallem, 2012 MacArthur Fellows Program, or

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for neurobiology *

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, Democratic candidate for 2021 New York City Mayor election * Marques Brownlee, YouTube technology reviewer *

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References

External links

CTY Official WebsiteUnofficial CTY Student-Based Wiki
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