15 Lankan student leaders accepted to Harvard Uni Leadership Summit 2015 in USA
Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:10
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This year 15 student leaders from eight schools in Sri Lanka have been accepted to attend the 2015 Summer Leadership Summit at Harvard University in USA. They will join 300 other teen leaders from 37 countries for this once in a lifetime leadership education experience. The Summit annually brings together teenagers between 15 to 18 years, who are fluent in the English language to experience a global outlook to prepare them for serious higher studies. Since year 2000 over 1,000 Sri Lankan students have attended these Leadership Summits in USA. 885 of them have entered American, British and Australian universities on scholarships to complete their higher studies. After graduating, most of them have returned to Sri Lanka to take up leadership roles in their chosen careers. Some are overseas in similar leadership roles including NASA and Kennedy Space Centre making Sri Lanka proud.
“More than 80% of those students who attend our Leadership Summits gain acceptance to their first choice university in USA,” said Rochelle Melder, the Chief Student Counsellor of Presidential Classroom Sri Lanka, local representative of The Leadership Summit Organisers, Dwight Eisenhower Foundation Inc USA, initiated in 1956 by late American President Dwight Eisenhower. Email [email protected] for a free Application Kit.
2015 delegates at the first orientation last week with the Chief Student Counsellor in Sri Lanka, Rochelle Melder at Presidential Classroom Office. From Asian International School – Dulakshi Fernando, Anushka Tiwari, Sheraya De Silva, Sirustica Senthilkumar and Mayan Siriwardena; from Colombo International School – Dinul Hettiarachchi; from Musaeus College – Damsadie Hennedigey and Vinthara Goluhewage; from Ladies College – Tehara Punchihewa; from Ananda College – Yoshitha Athukorale; from British School – Ashton Godfrey, Dasun Jayawardena and Saanya Subasinghe; from St. Thomas College – Jivanka Almedia Gunerathne; from Stafford International School – Vimukthi de Alwis
