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CTYI

Centre for the Talented Youth of Ireland
Formation 1992
Headquarters Dublin City University
Location
  • Ireland
Key people
Dr. Colm O'Reilly, Eleanor Cooke, Catriona Fitzgerald
Website CTYI

The Centre for the Talented Youth of Ireland (CTYI) is a youth programme for students between the ages of six and seventeen of high academic ability in Ireland.

There are sibling projects around the world, most notably the CTY programme at Johns Hopkins University, the original model for CTYI. CTY students are eligible to participate in CTYI's summer sessions for older students. CTYI was founded in 1992 and is based at Dublin City University in Glasnevin, Dublin 9. Dr. Colm O'Reilly has been its director since 2005. The centre offers various courses for gifted students as well as conducting research and promoting the needs of the talented in Ireland.

Saturday courses are offered at various colleges and institutes of technology around Ireland throughout the year. There are courses for both the 6–7 age group and the 8–13 group. DCU also run classes on Wednesday afternoons.

Summer courses are available for 6-7-year-olds and 8-13-year-olds (one-week sessions) at DCU and at other colleges and institutes of technology around Ireland. These students normally study two related subjects in either the morning or the afternoon session.

The summer programme for older students (12-17-year-olds) runs only at DCU. These courses give students the opportunity to study college-style and college levelled courses in subjects that are not otherwise available to them in the education system, such as Biotechnology, and War and Conflict Studies. Two sessions of three weeks each run each summer, usually from mid-June until the end of July or early August. With current financial situation, fewer people have been able to afford the steep cost of the programme, especially since the Government cut CTYI's funding in 2009. Because of this, students can now attend both sessions of the course, and the age bracket has been increased to include up to age seventeen.

Some of the students at the summer programme come from overseas, mostly from the United States and Continental countries such as France. Owing to the intensive nature of the programme, most of the 190–250 students who attend each session are residential, living in college accommodation for the duration of the course.

Weekdays in the summer programme are highly structured. Classes run from 9am to 3pm, with an hour's break for lunch. Activities take place from 3.15pm to 5pm, supervised by the residential assistants (RAs). Between 5pm and 6:30pm students have dinner and are required to attend a meeting with their RA group. 6:30pm to 8:30pm is taken up by the study period, which is supervised by the teaching assistant. Social time takes place between 8:30pm and 10pm, with lights-out at 10.30pm. On weekends, social activities such as discos, shopping trips, visits to the cinema, excursions to various interesting sights in Ireland, talent shows, mock casino nights and so on are organised.


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