Center for Academic Advancement
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The Center for Academic Advancement (CAA) is a gifted education program, part of the the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (CTY) summer programs. Students are accepted based on SAT and ACT standardized test scores with a threshold lower than the more-competitive CTY programs.
[edit] CAA Sites
CAA programs for the 7th grades and above are held at the following sites:
- Moravian College - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Roger Williams University - Bristol, Rhode Island
- Lafayette College - Easton, Pennsylvania
- University of California at Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz, California
- California Lutheran University - Thousand Oaks, California
The CalLutheran site opened to older students in the summer of 2006. Between Younger Students (CTY-YS) and Older Students (CAA), the site hosted approximately 300 students and nearly 100 staff. Site traditions include the usual canons, passionfruit, and some new ones - Toga Parties, Renaissance Fair, I <3 The 80s (pet rocks!), Santa Monica Pier, CTY Idol. Staff and students from this site will fondly remember the hand sanitizer at the cafeteria, "I have a cat," The Beard Competition, evenings at Mt. Clef, staff-student basketball/volleyball/soccer games, "TAs are Capitalist Swine," ice block surfing, visiting the elderly, and water buffalo.
