Center For Talented Youth - CTY Alumni and Students

CTY Alumni and Students

CTY is home to many students of great academic ability. Achievements and recognitions for CTY students include:

• 6 of 32 American Recipients of the 2006 Rhodes Scholarship.
• at least 32 Rhodes Scholarship winners since the year 2000.
• numerous top finishers in the Intel Science Talent Search, including the first-place winner in 2005.
• numerous award winners in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, including grand prize winners in 2007 and 2012.
• at least 2 winners of the Siemens Westinghouse Competition.
• 2 contestants in the 2006 National Geographic Bee national-level competition.
• numerous participants in the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, including winners Graham Gilmer, David Walter, and Meryl Federman.
• 1 contestant in the 2006 National Ocean Sciences Bowl national-level competition.
• Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
• Lady Gaga, popular musician.
• George Hotz, who became famous as the first person to hack the iPhone.
• Emer Jones, who was the youngest winner of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, attended the Irish Centre For Talented Youth in Dublin.
• 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.
• Rebecca Trickey, inventor of the Pizzabon.

Many CTY alumni go on to attend Ivy League and top tier universities: MIT, Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Chicago, the California Institute of Technology, and Stanford University.