I’d second this. My son James went to CTY and learned Scheme and all about Turing machinies. He’s also at Google now. I sense a trend…
On Feb 27, 2018, at 12:53 PM, Richard Howard <rich@richardehoward.com> wrote:
My kids went--life changing, particularly my older son (now 30). At 12 he had a class taught by an NSA code breaker--programmed ENIGMA machines on TI-83 calculators and cracked each other's code.
He waited each year for the summer--the only time he was with peers he could talk with.
The friendships made there have lasted to this day.
He now works for Google (actually Pixel) and works on a project to protect human rights websites from DNS attacks.
He is also (with his wife, also at Google) teaching robotics courses at CTY in the summer.
I credit CTY for opening the world to him when he was a lonely young nerd.
Yeah, they are good.
--R
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
Well, my info is a few decades out of date, given that my kids are now 38 [F] and 35 [M], but they both enjoyed CTY summer camps when they were kids. They had fun, socialized [with fellow nerds], even learned things. I believe the older one even made a lifelong friend with one of the instructors.
The older one now has an 8-year-old daughter of her own, but that one does competitive gymnastics and violin and there's no time left for other pursuits. Yes, her summer camps are very expensive, and she hasn't even done any sleepover camps yet.
On 27-Feb-18 12:22, Marnie Kanarek wrote:
Hi all,
I don't know if you can help me but does anyone have or know anyone that has any experience with CTY summer camps? Gabe really wants to do a math camp and CTY has a campus like 10 mins away (as opposed to Epsilon or C& which are very far away). They are all so expensive so we want to know that they are good before we commit. Also, if anyone has any summer camp options that would be...appropriate for a super advanced 8 year old that AREN'T super expensive, I'm all ears! (I tried to convince Gray to bring Gabe into work for a week at STSCI and just let him bug the astronomers...but that is probably not a realistic option :P)
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