14-year-old Indian-American Aryash Shyam wins $1,000 national writing prize
Aryash Shyam, a 14-year-old Indian-American student, has won a $1,000 national writing award. His winning entry is a historical-fiction story set in a Philadelphia print shop on July 4, 1776. The Pennsylvania ninth-grader was one of four middle-school winners in the 2026 John Estey Student Writing Competition. He has previously been recognized for projects in space research, artificial intelligence and robotics.
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