Palo Alto
| Palo Alto | |
 Aerial View of Main Quad | |
| Site Information | |
|---|---|
| College | Stanford University |
| Location | Palo Alto, California |
| Years of Operation | 1996-2016 |
| Avg. Number of Students | 160 |
| Courses Offered | |
| Humanities | Model United Nations and Advanced Geography | The Middle Ages | The Renaissance |
| Writing | Heroes and Villains | Writing and Imagination | Writing Workshop: Where Art Meets Science | Elements of Drama |
| Computer Science | Introduction to Computing |
| Math | Data and Chance | Great Discoveries in Mathematics | Inductive and Deductive Reasoning | Math Sequence |
| Science | Dynamic Earth | The Physics of Engineering |
Palo Alto was a Baby CTY site set in the beautiful campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.The site filled on average 160 students. Its code was PAL.
Site Description
Stanford University, where to begin. Stanford opened in 1891 and is located in Palo Alto, which is right in Silicon Valley. It has a bunch of notable Alumni including Reese Witherspoon, Tiger Woods, Herbert Hoover, Richard Sherman and the founders of Google: Larry Paige and Sergey Brin.
Other camps are here too, the most notable of which are ID Tech and some reading group with orange lanyards.
Places
Roble Hall
CTY takes over the entire building. The main floor has a theater, a game room, and some lounge areas. Boys are on floors 2 and 3, and girls are on the fourth floor. Members of halls sometimes compete with one another to see who can climb the stairs the fastest. Dances are either held in the movie theater or on the front lawn. Administrative offices are on the left wing of the building, on the first floor.
Lagunita Court
The dining hall. The green bell peppers are questionable - some are good and some are limp and don't taste anything like green bell peppers. Bland pasta is always available, as are hamburgers with patties that seem to have more fat than they should. Buns made of mushroom flour are available for gluten-free people. There's also a freezer with popsicles or ice cream sandwiches that always gets raided. Both soda and flavored water can be found.
There's a fair amount of seating, both inside and outside. There's a sort of backyard that's pretty nice, and there are some picnic tables on the side of the building. Admins usually lord over them, even though there's a lot of bird poop and questionable stains on them.
ID Tech makes the lines really long, so CTYers had to get their lanyards ready fast because the person who scanned them tended to get impatient after a while.
The Bookstore
The bookstore is three floors (or maybe two, someone needs to verify this) and offers an impressive array of books, technology, Stanford swag, and junk food. Books are not limited to college-level stuff, however, material that is suitable for toddlers, elementary schoolers, and young adults can easily be found. You can buy a Stanford study buddy, which is essentially a stuffed tree with glasses and the creepiest smile on the planet. Getting one of these is probably counterproductive.
