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Hi Everyone,
Anyone's DC going to CTY Summer Program this summer? We just heard back from JH CTY and DD got her first choice class in Palo Alto, 2nd session for 5/6th graders.

Our son, 8, will be going to Thousand Oaks/1st Session for Intro to Robotics--5th/6th. He's very excited about the whole experience. He selected several different courses, including science, humanities and writing... but was really hoping for Robotics.

He's been in a bit of a dither lately about math... so this assignment came in handy. I explained to him that had he not done so well on the math portion of the SCAT, he may not have made it into the class. He grudgingly agreed that maybe math can be useful after all. (We are trying very patiently to get him in touch with his inner mathy...)

DW, however, just keyed into the fact that the session runs for THREE WHOLE WEEKS!!! And here I thought DS would be the apprehensive one.

Hi Dandy,
My DD almost signed up for the 5th/6th Robotics at Thousand Oaks/2nd session as one of her choices - she thought the Robotics class also sounded great and Thousand Oaks would have been the next closest site. We decided to stay with Palo Alto (which didn't offer Robtics), however, since it was our first year and preferred that she stayed within couple hours drive. We just prayed she got assigned her overall first choice, Science and Engineering, and very excited that she did. She is looking forward to the whole learning experience.

If inclined, please share with us the Robotics / Thousand Oaks experience later - we may be interested next year! We will do the same about Palo Alto/Science and Engineering.

BTW: My daughter has a real passion for anything science - biology, physics, chemistry etc - and I have impressed upon her how important it is for her to master math well, if only to get into the classes, colleges of her choice for science, since math scores are often the first determining factor! So she has become a more enthusiastic math student of late...

Also, BTW: I do wonder if there are a lot of other precocious, "younger" 5th/ 6th graders at these programs, like your son? (I think Cym mentioned above that her DCs were younger too) My daughter, 11, has a fall birthday and is in 5th grade this year (though she is in a self-contained GT program that covers curriculum 1-2 years ahead). She started her schooling in a private school which comformed to the national average of Sept 1st cut off, hence her grading now, but, I do hope she does not feel so "old" at these programs..lol !