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 School accreditation, accredited for students in grades K to 12 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. CTY published the Imagine (educational magazine), ''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 School and College Ability Test, SCAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT, SAT, ACT (test), 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 (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''. 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 * Lady Gaga, musician, actress * Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google * George Hotz, hacker and founder of comma.ai * Hollis Robbins, academic and essayist * 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 * Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and Time Person of the Year, 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 * Dave Aitel, computer security professional * Ronan Farrow, journalist, lawyer, and former government advisor * Andrew Yang, Democratic candidate for 2021 New York City Mayor election *Marques Brownlee, YouTube technology reviewer *Curtis Yarvin, Blogger also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug

References

External links

CTY Official WebsiteUnofficial CTY Student-Based Wiki
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