Arunima Sinha, the country's first female amputee to scale the Mount Everest, will be in Patna next month to interact with the "future of India".
The Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship has invited former volleyball player Sinha, who lost one of her legs in a 2011 train accident, to address its students at the graduation ceremony on June 17.
"The school is preparing leaders who will take this nation forward. That's what India needs today more than ever," she said in her message sent to school about her proposed visit to the city. "I really look forward to delivering the graduation address and interact with the future of India."
The Dexterity School is a weeklong summer school of leadership and entrepreneurship that grooms children and youngsters (aged 13 to 19 years) as global leaders. Its founder Sharad Sagar, a Tufts University alumni and social entrepreneur from Patna, said: "Arunima Sinha reminds us that with courage, hard work, and determination, nothing is impossible. These are the core values at our school. I am really looking forward to her interaction with students and truly believe that these young leaders will always stand for the values she stood for."
Sharad will also attend the graduation ceremony.
Sinha (29) scaled the Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world, in 2013 - two years after her accident - and was awarded the Padma Shri in 2015 for her feat. She lives in Lucknow.
The summer school, whose graduation ceremony Sinha will address, is aided with a yearlong mentoring and support system for its students. It provides students with entrepreneurial skills and enables them to build their ideas into actions and enterprises, builds their network of advocates, supporters and collaborators, and enables them to solve and address challenges and needs of their communities through innovative and efficient solutions.
During the weeklong set-up, students undergo rigorous training in communications, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Students solve Harvard Law School negotiations, being one of the youngest people in the world to do that. The students form their own start-ups in class, pitch their start-up ideas, walk through the lifecycle of a start-up and learn using business school case studies.
While understanding the art of communication, the class analyses and dissects great speakers such as Barack Obama, Steve Jobs and Martin Luther King and their speeches, and learns the art of effective communication and messaging to the masses.
Application for the 2017 summer programme of the school will be accepted till May 30 and one can visit www.dexschool.org for getting details of the programme.
Since 2013, when the summer school was established, 160 students have graduated with many of them now pursuing courses of their choice.
