Global Finalists
The following are the finalists from each region for each essay stream. These contestants will be moving on to the Global Round and will be provided with further instruction via email.
Australia & New Zealand
CREATIVE
Luisa Lu
Chenghao Wu
Ailene Susanto
Chantelle Ma
Daksha Ponugupaty
argumentative
Jiayi (Kelly) Ma
James Hull Fifield
Flora Gao
Nayoon Lee
Joshua Jia
Journalistic
Yoo Jin (Eujiny) Cho
Sai Vibha Pothuganti
Tamir Hine
Eric Zhou
Daniel Liang
Central & South America
creative
Luiza Ribeiro
Nicolly Figueiredo
Giulia Fontes Dadamo
Laura Faria
Isa Taranto
Argumentative
Juan Diego Coronel
Nina De Lima
Caio Knudsen
Emil Shadid
Diego Garcia
Journalistic
Elena Hernandez
Luiza Mariani Paiva Caldeira Brant
Eduardo Machado
Bruna Santana
André Pinto
East, South & Southeast Asia
creative
Sukriti Shrivastava
Siyoon Kim
Akriti Srivastava
Claire Lee
Nikhil Dasgupta
Argumentative
Desmund Loo
Raphael Niu
Nguyen Ngoc
Jessie Ellena Hedrian
Lyla Bokhari
Journalistic
Emmanuelle Kay
Aanchal Agrawal
Wonwoo Lee
John Anto Benedict Garcia
Dominic Craig Carpio
Europe, The Middle East, Russia, Africa, Central Asia
Creative
Emilija Daunyte
Haadiya Sobani
Chloe Huang
Sabine Bakhsh
Emily Park
Argumentative
Eunbi Han
Aryaman Sarda
Anusha Qaiser
Ben Zahrah Leila NEETOO
Ameliya Davydova
journalistic
Hafid Eledath
Ece Okutan
Leya Tulchinskaya
Salamat Mulakhov
Laura Vasilachi
North America
creative
Jialu Chen
Diya Kumar
Hailey Richard
Olivia Zhang
Lillie Monsky
Argumentative
Arvind Salem
Sterling Huang
Kristen Song
Kristen Konkoth
Ben Bradford-Andrew
journalistic
Ashwin Telang
Sia Han
Julia Plotkin
Madeline Magielnicki
Kailin Xuan