2025 Essay Competition Results - Scholar of Tomorrow

2025
SoT Essay Competition Results
Economics

First Prize

Wenxin Tan, Chongqing Nankai Middle School, China
Political Levers of Innovation: How Sanctions, Tariffs, and Industrial Policies Shape Technological Development
Second Prize

Chen Chen, Shanghai New Epoch Bilingual School, China
The Double-Edged Sword: Political Measures and Indigenous Technological Innovation
Qingxin Ma, Point Grey Secondary School, Canada
Innovation Under Pressure: Politics and Technology
Yian Li, Shanghai New Epoch Bilingual School, China
Trade Wars and Innovation Inertia: The Economic Cost of Protectionism
Third Prize

Chengyu Gu, SJI International, Singapore
Political Measures and Indigenous Technological Innovation: How Sanctions, Tariffs, and Industrial Policy Accelerate or Impede Domestic R&D

Dhruv Kamath, Palo Alto High School, USA
Protectionist Policies: An Analysis of Tariffs and IP Regulations
Shuxin Gu, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy, China
India’s Ambition Towards Indigenous Innovation: An Acceleration or Impediment?
Xu Mingyue, Overseas Family School, Singapore
How do particular political measurements result in accelerating or impeding indigenous technological innovation in the targeted nation?

Yieum (Amy) Park Handong International School, Korea
The Paradox of Innovation: Political Influence, Government Subsidies, and Unequal Spillovers
Yuchen Liu, Chongqing Nankai Secondary School, China
Political Measurements’ Impact on Technological Innovation: Regulations and Sanctions
Honorable Mention

Hadi Cheema LGS JT, Pakistan
Wei Wang Beijing Haidian Foreign Language School, China
Bingye Jin Shanghai New Epoch Bilingual School, China
Sichen Shen Shanghai East Foreign Language School affiliated to SISU, China
Kehan Wang Beijing Haidian Kaiwen Academy, China
Wang Yuan Shanghai Pinghe Billingual School, China
Kiaan Singh Shanghai Community International School, China
Sihan Chen Beijing No.80 High School International Department, China
Vladimir Rudi Headstart International School, Phuket, Thailand
Anyelka Garza Brownsville Early College High School, USA
Psychology

First Prize

Xinchang Yan, Saint Anthony's High School, USA
Global Crises Online: Uncertainty, Comparison, and Collective Sense-Making
Second Prize

Liqiao Wang, Stevenson School, USA
Living in Perpetual Crisis: The Numbing of Anxiety and the Illusion of Resilience
Siyuan Bao, Shanghai Pinghe School, China
Living in Perpetual Crisis: How Do Global Events Shape Our Anxiety and Resilience?
Fangyuan Liu, United World College Changshu, China
Living in Perpetual Crisis: How Do Global Events Shape Our Anxiety and Resilience?
Irene Kim, Loomis Chaffee School, USA
Crisis as Catalyst: Pathways from Collective Trauma to Posttraumatic Growth
Eunseol Jo, Korea Christian International School, Korea
How Crisis Redefines Us and Them in a Distrustful Society
Edward Park The Lawrenceville School, USA
How Personality and Culture Impact Anxiety and Resilience During Global Crises
Third Prize

Yuhan Xu, Guangzhou Foreign Language School, China
Living in Perpetual Crisis: How Do Global Events Shape Our Anxiety and Resilience?
Ziyue Niu, Mingcheng Academy Beijing, China
Living in a perpetual crisis: How global disasters shape our anxiety and resilience
Zikun Yin, Affiliated Experimental School of Zhuhai No.1 High School, China
Living in Perpetual Crisis: How Do Global Events Shape Our Anxiety and Resilience?
Qishu Huang, International Department of Beijing No. 35 Middle School, China
Living in Perpetual Crisis: Testing the Multi-Level Effects of Continuous Global-Threat Exposure on Adolescent Anxiety and Resilience

Qingxiang Liao, Shenzhen College of International Education, China
The Corrosive and the Crucible: An Analysis of How Global Crises Shape Collective Anxiety and Adaptive Resilience
Tzu-Le Yang, William P. Clements High School, USA
The Double Edged Sword of Global Events: Creating Anxiety and Building Resilience
Xinran Li, Xi'an Gaoxin No.1 High School International Course Center, China
How Media Exposure to Global Crises Affects Children’s Mental Health
Anvesha Nautiyal, Somerville School Vasundhara Enclave, India
Living in Perpetual Crisis: How Do Global Events Shape Our Anxiety and Resilience?
Honorable Mention

Xiangwen Lyu, Shanghai Pinghe School, China
Heyan Jiang, Beijing No.4 High School, China
Ian Kim, Phillips Academy Andover, USA
Yinbo Zhu, Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province, China
Jingyuan Guo, International Division of The Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, China
Rachel Li, Shanghai High School International Division, China
Ziyao Ni, Nanjing Foreign Language School British Columbia Academy, China
Colin Ryu, The Lawrenceville School, USA
Yunxi Li, The Affiliated High School of Peking University, China
Muqing Wu, Xi’an Gaoxin NO.1 High School International Course Center, China
Lexi Wei, YK Pao School, China
Ziheng Gao, Chongqing Yucai High School, China
Logan Tai, Groton Dunstable Regional High School, USA
Yuetong Liu, International Department, The Affiliated High School of SCNU, China
Yian Li, Shanghai New Epoch Bilingual School, China
Chen Chen, Shanghai New Epoch Bilingual School, China
Runtian Sun, San Domenico High School, USA
Tongtong Wu, The Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, China
Zitong Hao, Zhuhai Oriental Foreign Language Experimental School, China
Jiayang Wang, Shanghai New Epoch Bilingual School, China
Tianyi Yang, Zhuhai Oriental Foreign Language Experimental School, China
Kele Zhang, Shanghai New Epoch Bilingual School, China
Jiaqi Zhang, Jiangsu Zhenze High School, China
Han Qin, Beijing Haidian Kaiwen High School, China
XunKai Cao, Beijing No.80 High School, China
Zimeng Jessie Yu, Ulink College of Shanghai, China
Apollo Grimes, Stratford Preparatory Blackford, USA
Xinyu Yang, High School Affiliated to Nanchang University, China
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