Aryan Pandalai, President of Commencement

Aryan Pandalai, is bilingual and applied his native level English and Hindi as a moderator for The Youth Leadership Board’s Global Summit on Interactive On-Demand Education (August 2022) where he serves as the elected Co-President of Commencement of The Share Fund, Inc. 

When he is not collaborating globally, he is an exemplary leader at Westhill High School (classof 2024) where he shares his talents as a 4.0 student as a peer tutor and a member of both theVarsity Lacrosse and Ice Hockey teams. It is inevitable that nutrition and healthy eating havealways been important to Mr.Pandalai, as it is crucial for him to count his calories, maintain hisweight and physique in order to to athletically perform. Beyond the classroom and sports arena,Pandalai performs 250 hours of community service a year as a mindfulness and deep breathingliterary advocate during his tenure as a member of The Share Institute, Inc.’s Young Authors’Honors Society. Pandalai’s notable contributions to the Broadening Our Horizons series includehis analytical research on the subject of concussions and his influential report titled, The Impactof Mindfulness on Developmental Neurology (2022). Pandalai has been named a rising star andattributes his drive to succeed to wanting to set the best example possible for his younger twinsiblings. As a resident of Connecticut aware of the school shootings in his state, Pandalai isdetermined to make schools safer through leadership advocacy rooted in scientific research andinterdisciplinary solutions.