Ideas, school sport, the pool, the board and the environment — five responsibilities held to the same standard, alongside the community work that runs through them.
As Co-President of TEDxWIS, Ashvik helps lead the student team behind the school's TEDx initiative — shaping its direction, developing the programme, and working with speakers and organisers to bring ideas to a live audience. The role sits at the intersection of curation, event leadership and communication: deciding what deserves a stage, and building the team that puts it there.
As a Sports Leader, Ashvik contributes to the running of school sport — supporting events, encouraging younger athletes, and representing the student voice within the sporting programme. It is the quieter side of leadership: turning up early, setting the tone, and making the programme work for everyone in it.
Captain of the swimming team, competing and representing the school while supporting teammates through training blocks, galas and selection. Captaincy here means leading the warm-up as much as the race — holding standards in the pool, and backing the people in the neighbouring lanes.
Captain of the diving team, leading a discipline that rewards precision, nerve and repetition. The responsibility is to keep a small squad focused and confident — encouraging teammates through difficult skills and helping the group develop together.
As Sustainability Prefect, Ashvik holds a formal school-wide brief for the environment — representing the student body on sustainability, supporting the school's environmental initiatives, and helping keep the subject part of everyday school life rather than a once-a-year assembly. It is the appointment where his own work and the school's meet: the argument Second Stitch makes as a venture, made here from inside the institution.
Lead by example. Build others up. Leave things better than you found them.
Working with people first — collection drives, donations and initiatives that depend on a school and neighbourhood turning up.
Volunteering in the water, and reducing what reaches it in the first place.
Measured honestly. Where figures are still being verified, they are marked as such rather than estimated.