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Help us give a giant CONGRATULATIONS to our CTY Scholars Class of 2026! 🎉 🎉 🎉

These nine students from Tennessee, California, New Jersey, and Virginia joined the CTY Scholars Program in the 8th grade. They just completed four years in the program and graduated high school! They are AP Scholars, National Honor Society members, QuestBridge National College Match and College Prep Scholars, Thrive Scholars, National Merit finalists, valedictorians, performing and visual artists, school leaders, and athletes!

Combined, our graduating scholars were admitted to 46 different colleges and universities, and earned more than $1,693,700 in scholarships and grants! 🤩

Here's where they're headed this fall:
🎓 Kamsiyochukwu A.: Troy University, Honors College
🎓 Irene B: Pepperdine University
🎓 Kailan C.: Cornell University
🎓 Matthew H.: Cornell University
🎓 Janice K.: Johns Hopkins University
🎓 Joel L.: University of Pennsylvania
🎓 Josiah M.: California Institute of Technology
🎓 Carly P.: Still deciding between some amazing options
🎓 Sachi T.: Smith College

We’re so proud of them!! 👏

Learn more about the CTY Scholars Program: https://bit.ly/4eiQCUL

🗣️ BINGO! 🗣️
Here's a peek at some of the staples our students are about to experience at sites across the country. See one? Snap a pic and tag us in a post! 📸 😎 🩵

Congrats to all our CTY students who are graduating! 🎓✨

You're invited to join the CTY Alumni Network! Complete our alumni update form to connect to a community of more than 180,000 fellow CTYers, and receive your official CTY alumni lanyard. 🩵

Also, you're welcome to join our private alumni (aka ‘forevermores’) groups on Facebook and LinkedIn to meet other CTY alumni, grow your professional networks, and stay informed about news and events. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

-Alumni update form: https://bit.ly/4v7ux1r
-Alumni Network information: https://bit.ly/4uagxCv
-CTY Alumni Network on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3RLC8nn
-CTY Alumni Network on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4a97lHm

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CTY Donor Spotlight: Barry Leybovich ’03-’08

As a CTY student, Barry Leybovich ’03-’08 began preparing for a career in healthcare software through courses such as Investigations in Engineering. As the son of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, he found a sense of belonging at CTY. Today, he is establishing the Leybovich Family Endowed Scholarship Fund to support CTY Scholars, a four-year academic advising and college counseling program designed to close the opportunity gap among our nation’s brightest students.

“CTY provides a unique environment for intellectual exploration, and I still chat with friends I made at CTY every week,” he said. “I give so that these experiences are available to students of all backgrounds.”

Help us congratulate Ryan Tiedemann, who will join our staff as a teaching assistant at our JHU residential site this summer! Tiedemann is a member of The George Washington University’s Parliamentary Debate Society, which just won the “Club of the Year” award from the American Parliamentary Debate Association. 👏 👏

Tiedemann (right), who graduated from GWU this spring with a double major in international affairs and philosophy, will work with students in our Laws and Orders: Legal Systems Around the World course this summer.

✨ CTY Staff Spotlight: Erin Aust ✨

Erin Aust started at CTY as a program assistant in 2008 and has since taught writing courses like Modern Fantasy at CTY sites and online. This summer ushers in two new highlights in her CTY career—opening a new day site and teaching a brand-new course.

“I am so excited to work at CTY at the Woods Academy in suburban Washington, D.C. It is always astonishing to see how quickly the CTY faculty and staff come together to create a site each summer. I am also delighted to help bring the Shaping Our World course to third- and fourth-grade students. Architecture is a rich topic, and this course encourages students to problem-solve across different subjects. They will see the world around them in a whole new light.”