Nearly 20,000 talented underprivileged students appeared for the annual entrance exam of Sitare Foundation, a not-for-profit organization aiming to "Transform fifty thousand lives through education by 2050" here on Saturday.
The Foundationhas seen over 65000 registrations for this year's entrance exam out of which18099 registrations are from Bhopal itself. The entrance exam will be carried out in four phases, with Bhopal being the destination for its inaugural phase. The remaining three phases will be carried out across Indore, Jaipur & Jodhpur. The entrance exam will be held on 5thand 6th March at the IES Public School, Bhopal.
Sitare Foundation has also announced the names of its first batch of five talented underprivileged senior secondary school students who have secured admissions in renowned universities in the United States of America, in undergraduate Computer Sciences programs.
Milan Ramdhari will be joining Virginia Tech, and Tanisha Nagori will join Case Western Reserve University. Kusum Choudhary, Mahendra Kumar, and Nisha Choudhary have received multiple admissions from several universities including University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, University of California - Santa Cruz, and Arizona State University. Many more admissions for these students are expected over the coming weeks.
The Foundation works towards empowering children from impoverished backgrounds by assisting them to enter middle school (through an aptitude test and an interview for admission in Class VI) and providing them with quality education for seven years. Alongside academics, Sitare especially focusses on building their social, emotional, and language capabilities to prepare them for a successful future as a world class professional, starting with preparing them for admissions into prestigious universities in India and in the United States.