The Program that Changed My Life

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CTY, one of the most successful programs run by the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth (IAAY), was my first step toward a greater world. It's a three-week summer camp located at various colleges and universities around the nation that really let middle school scholars' minds run wild and free for the first time. I was a CTYer for three wonderful years, with each succeeding year being better. During Session I of 1989, I went to Scripps College in California and studied Precalculus during Session I. For Session I of 1990, I went to Franklin & Marshall University and studied Calculus. Lastly, for Session I of 1991, I went back to F&M and studied Computer Science I, now known as the Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science. For me, the best part of CTY was the opportunity for self-paced study. In my first three weeks of CTY, I finished off Algebra I, Algebra II, and Analytic Geometry, all before hitting eighth grade, and the following year, I finished off Calculus BC (and scored a 5 on the AP exam) before I got to high school.

The CS course was the most exciting course because, oddly, it really opened my eyes to mathematics. Learning Pascal was useful in itself, but I learned the Peano axioms of the natural numbers, was introduced to formal logic through the calculus of propositional and predicate logic, and learned much about machine theory and the concepts of computability and decidability.

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