‘Super 30’ founder and mathematician Anand Kumar has been selected from around the world to speak at the University Scholars’ Leadership Symposium, to be held in Thailand from August 1.
Other speakers at the symposium are Afghanistan’s peace activist Dr. Hakim, Sri Lanka’s Safe Bottle Lamp Founder Dr. Wijaya, founder of Thailand’s Development and Education Programme for Daughters (DEPD) Sompop Jantraka and Australia’s Geraldine Cox, who is working for homeless children in Cambodia, ‘Super 30’ sources said.
With ‘Super 30’ emerging as an innovative school for helping talented students from underprivileged families crack the IIT-JEE, in the last few years organizers from different parts of the world have been inviting its founder to listen to the inspiring story of his struggling days and the success of the institute that he runs for the poor.
Students and scholars from over 500 universities of the world will also participate in the symposium.
Having missed the opportunity to go to Cambridge in 1994 due to acute financial constraint, Mr. Anand set up the Ramanujan School of Mathematics for teaching mathematics to poor children in 1992. In 2002, he set up the ‘Super 30’, where he provides free education, food and accommodation to 30 talented students from underprivileged sections of the society for the IIT-JEE.
In the last nine years, 236 students have qualified from the institute.
On his selection, Mr. Kumar said it would motivate him to work even harder.
