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Congratulations to all Summer 2025 medal winners on the quality of your submissions!
Gold Medal
Daniel Kim. Seoul Foreign School. “Bamboo Diplomacy: Vietnam Strategic Growth Amid U.S.-China Trade Tensions”
Yeeun (Lydia) Choi. Korea International School. “Lithium as Leverage: Bolivia's Role in the 21st-Century Power Struggle”
Xinyang Ji. BASIS International School Nanjing. “The Benguela Current Alliance: How Namibia and Its Neighbors Are Protecting the Shared Fisheries”
Minkyo Kim. St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju. “Between Giants: How Indonesia Navigates the US-China Competition as a Rising Middle Power”
Emma Bao. Ashbury College. “Cutting Across Borders: Global Telesurgery Awaits the Gavel”
Fanhao Zhou. Shanghai High School International Division. “Buzzing on the Brink: Pollinators, Prey Insects, and Global Food Crises”
Sichen Fan. Beijing SMIC Private School. “Behind the Moratorium: The Scramble for Papua New Guinea’s Ocean Minerals”
Bryan Zhao. The Awty International School. “Rising Tide of Influence: China Meticulous Ocean Grab”
Celina Wang. Milton Academy. “Jakarta’s Sinking: The Silent Migration of a Capital City”
Tianwei Zheng. Basis International School Hangzhou. “Saudi Arabia: Emerging Power in a Transforming Global Order”
Hana Tsai. The Spence School. “When Women Move, Cities Become Resilient”
Alexander Zhang. Upper Canada College.“Turning the Tide: Sponge and Smart Cities for a Climate-Resilient Sub-Saharan Africa”
Dai Hei Daisy Jin. BASIS International School Hangzhou. “Ravaging the Deep: The True Price of New Zealand’s High Seas Catch”
Du, Xin Yue. Beijing National Day School. “Disruption of Cultural Resilience in Urbanization: A Case Study from the "Cliff Village"”
Yena Choi. Korea International School. “When a Ban is Not a Ban: Loopholes and the Fragility of the Whaling Moratorium”
Gyueon Lee. Bodwell High School. “Satellite Proliferation and the Future of the Night Sky”
Xinke Feng. United world college South East Asia Dover Campus. “The European Union’s Underpublicized Trade of Toxic Pesticides”
Qingge Yu. High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University. “The Graphic Violence That Remains in the Shadows: Shock Sites and the Global Commons”
Zhang Yuhang. Beijing National Day School. “Conflict Between India and Pakistan on May 7, 2025: How Military Networks Changed Defense and Power”
Ashley Shim. North Allegheny Senior High School. “The Urban Crucible: Consumer Culture Constructs Resilient Cities”
Jiho Shin. Bergen County Technical High School Teterboro Campus. “A New Anchor in Europe: Poland Economic and Strategic Emergence”
Ian Wenkai Jiang. The VR School. “SHarnessing the Flood: Floating Schools and the Future of Resilient Cities”
Yian Chen. Ranney School. “More Than an African Conflict: The GERD Deadlock Demands Attention for Its Global Ripples”
Wang-Jung Tsai. Shanghai American School Puxi Campus. “Soft Power to Digital Power: The Vatican in the Time of LLMs”
Junbo Chen. The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. “Soccer and Soft Power: The Turkish Super League”
Maisi Ji. YK Pao School. “New Capital in Desert: A Sustainability Controversy”
Huanxi Mao. Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School. “The Other Half of Migration: Building Welcoming Cities for Migrant Children”
Lu Congying. Shanghai ShiBei Senior High School. “Borders at the Hospital Door: When Healthcare Fails the Global Commons”
Feiyang Chen. “Left-Behind Fields: Feminization Without Power”
Quqing Chen. Shanghai Soong Ching Ling School. “The Amazon's Shared Future - Where Sovereignty Meets Global Cooperation”
Ruohan Wang. Georgia School Ningbo. “Beyond Academic Achievement: Adolescent Mental Health as a Foundation for Urban Resilience”
Silver Medal
Yikun Liu. Crean Lutheran High School. “Cutting Cables: Governing Undersea Infrastructure in International Waters”
Lin, Jui-Hsin. Putai Senior High School. “The Recycling Illusion: How the Plastic Waste Trade Pollutes the Global Commons”
Zhaohua Chen. Saint Francis High School, CA. “Qatar Rising: The Unbounded Middle Power”
Kayla Chen. The Harker School. “Wielding a Double-Edged Sword: How Vietnam Leverages Risk and Opportunity in Trade Wars”
Ethan Bhat. Chaminade College Preparatory High School. “From Mining Oil to Orbiting Mars: How the UAE is Reshaping Global Power Through Space Innovation”
Dev Jain. Canberra Grammar School. “Dollar Dominance: Firmly Entrenched or Destructible By The NDB?”
Zhao Hongkai. Eton College. “Escaping the Boot: Italy's Brain Drain and the Diaspora of Ambition”
Benjamin Lee. Seoul International School. “Water and War: Lessons from the Conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam”
Shuya Wang. Portsmouth Abbey School. “Clean Energy, Smart Future: Brazil’s Renewable Energy Edge Powers its Emergence as a New AI Powerhouse”
Chanoh Song. St. Michael's College School. “Day Zero: The Link Between The Climate Crisis and Employment”
Ruoxi Tang. Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province. “Toilets and Resilience: The
Synergies behind India’s Urban Public Health Revolution”
Angela Qi. White Oaks Secondary School. “Harvesting the Sky: Fog Catchers and Water Resilience in Lima”
Nicole Wang. Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School. “I Am Because We Are: What Ubuntu Teaches the World”
Hsuan-Te Lee. Kang Chiao International School - Xiugang Campus. “The Emerging Powers and the Shifting Global Economy: The Dilemma in Economic Policy-Making”
Tianyi Yang. BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour. “Alternative Proteins in China: Balancing Animal Welfare, Sustainability, and Cultural Traditions”
Yuqiao Wu. Brentwood Christian School. “Wi-Fi and the World Order: How Digital Nomads Are Rewriting the Geography of Power”
Dayeon Ko. Korea International School (KIS). “The Silent Agricultural Revolution: Urban Hydroponics as a Tool of Resilience”
Shi Yiqing. The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing NormalUniversity. “Emerging Powers: The Fission and Fusion Dynamics Reshaping the Global Order”
Joel Raj. John F. Kennedy Memorial High School. “When Coasts Collapse: Dredging Governance in Matsu and the Geopolitics of Satellite-Tracked Sand Economies”
Seongtaek Hwang. Seoul Scholars International. “Water Insecurity in Kazakhstan and Implications in Central Asia”
Hyeonji Nam. Chadwick International School. “How Corruption is Stealing Africa Urban Future”
Hudson Lin. 'Iolani School.“Between Blocs: The Strategic Nonalignment of Emerging Powers”
Weiyi Jing. Brearley School.“Viruses without Borders, Data with Barriers: The Struggle for Equity and Governance”
Saara Piplani. Los Gatos High School. “Gatekeeper of the Commons: Trkiye StrategicAmbiguity in a Globalized Resource Order”
Ian Kim. Phillips Academy Andover. “A Call For Scientific Collaboration On African Human Genomic Data”
Ikhee Lee. Shanghai American School. “Climate Change and Arctic Geopolitics”
Lin Junjie. WLSA. “BRICS: The Inevitable and Unstoppable Emergence of A New Financial Order”
Zhu Yingtian Owen. Shenzhen Hualang School. “Line in the Sand: Can Saudi Arabia’s Futuristic City Neom Really Take Off?”
Olivia Lee. Saint Thomas More Collegiate. “Reading the World: Trkiye Strategic Autonomy in a Fractured Global Order”
Hiu Kwan Kwok. The Peddie School. “Hidden traffic jams over our eyelids: leaving space for future satellite launches”
Hengyi Wei. International Curriculum Center of RDFZ. “Soft Power in the Gig Economy: How the Philippines Uses Online English Teaching to Gain Global Influence”
Gabriel Mattar. Avenues Sao Paulo. “International Influence Through Trade: Innovation as a Defining Factor”
Anders Christensen. Seoul International School. “Pan-African Nationalism in the Sahel: How Ibrahim Traor Challenges the West”
Xiangdong Guo. The SMIC Private School. “Rewiring International Trade: African Start-ups Driving South-South Collaborations”
Junwoo Park. Koreaa International School. “China, the West, and the Rohingya Genocide: Competing Agendas in Myanmar Struggle for Democracy”
Xia Yu. Suzhou Science & Technology Town Foreign Language High School. “Welcomed but Not Intergrated: The Talent Dilemma in China's Cities”
Qinshi Rao. YK Pao School. “PKK’s Dissolution Spells the End of an Era for Militant Kurds (and the Beginning of a New One for Erdogan’s Türkiye)”
Zijun Zhou. Yk Pao School. “The Mexico Paradox: Manufacturing for Washington, Financed by Beijing”
Yeseo Kwak. Seoul Academy. “Safeguarding Antarctic Krill Genomic Data from Biopiracy”
Ka Wing, Hong. Guangdong Country Garden School. “Tackling Cross-Border Commute Inequalities for More Resilient Cities”
Jiatong Han. Georgia School Ningbo. “The Stir in Water: The Divide over Fluoridation”
Brooklyn Jang. Princeton Day School. “Deep-Sea Mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: Where Exploration Turns into Exploitation”
Max Baoze Hong. ACG Parnell College. “As the Post-War Rules-Based International Order Enters Its Biggest Crisis Yet, Can International Law Uphold Its Protection of Our Planet Global Commons?”
Jingxiang Feng. Jinan Foreign Language School International Center. “Biomedical Waste Management: Beneath the Healthcare System”
Rong Zhu. Beijing 21st Century School. “The Hidden Cost of Modern Urban Living: Youth Mental Health Challenges”
Aayush N Gandhi. Dublin High School. “How Trkiye is Using Drones to Carve Out The Eastern Mediterranean”
Chen, Yu-Wei. Taipei Fuhsing Private School. “Navigating the Nexus: Mexico's Strategic Positioning Amid Global Economic Turbulence and Regional Realignments”
Haojia Xu. The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. “Made in North Korea: Counterfeit Crime”
Liu Jin Xuan. Beijing World Youth School. “Programming the Border: Mexico’s Geoeconomic Play in Changing Order”
Qingxin, Ma. Point Grey Secondary School. “From Periphery to Resource: How Employment and Immigration Define the Future of Urban Resilience”
Qianjun Xu. Nanjing Foreign Language School. “Outsourcing Conflict: How Private Military Companies are Reshaping Global Security”
Xinyan Dai. Grier School. “From Sacks to Survival: Informal Farming in Nairobi’s Shadow Economy”
Yutong Hu. The Experimental High School Attached To Beijing Normal University. “A Floating Future: Amphibious Architecture for Resilient Cities”
Xingzhi Wen. Sir John A Macdonald Collegiate Institute. “Reimagining Infrastructure to Build Resilient Equitable Cities”
Wing Huen Kong. Shenzhen College of International Education. “A Crisis Beyond Shaolin Temple: Rethinking Religion and Urban Resilience in Contemporary China”
Ethan (Saeyoung) Lee. Korea International School. “From Gray Walls to Green Defenses: How Urban Flood Resilience is Evolving”
Yan Sun. YK Pao School. “Mining the Abyss: Nauru’s Gamble with the Last Untouched Ocean”
Gayoon Lee. Bodwell High School. “Formalizing Informal Waste Pickers for Sustainable Urbanization”
Ruotong Jia. Beijing No.4 High School. “From Starving to Thriving: Solving Micronutrient Imbalance and Deficiencies in Global Food Aid”
Zhicai Liao. YK Pao School. “The Silver Tsunami: How Singapore Transforms the Aging Crisis into Opportunity”
Huang Olivia Jia. Shanghai High School International Division. “Born in the West, Spread to the Rest: Large Language Models and the Biases Shaping the Digital Commons”
Zhang Liren. American International School of Cape Town. “Africa’s Silent Hemorrhage: The Global Stakes of Medical Brain Drain”
Zihang Liu. Beijing Huijia Private School. “Emerging Power, Enduring Divide: Navigating India’s Wealth Inequalities in a VUCA world.”
Shou Junru. Ulink Beijing. “Slow Violence: The Residents Left Behind by Japan's Treated Wastewater Discharge Decision”
Zhiqing Mao. “Every Drop Counts: How Singapore Innovates for Water Security”
Ruo-Ning Chang. Chingshin Academy. “From Waste to Resilience: How Community Action Builds Sustainable Cities in the Global South”
Ziyan Huang. The Winsor School. “Buzzing Back: How the World is Fighting to Save the Bees”
Yida Wang. Miss Porter's School. “Parched Promises: The Gamble on Water Scarcity and Sustainable Development”
Ruixuan Duan. 21 Century School. “Growing Together: Sustainable Food Production in Southern Europe”
Lindsay Lingyuan Guo. Chinese International School. “Extraterrestrial Junk: Space Debris and the Problem of the Low-Earth Commons”
Zikang Zhang. Tsinglan School. “Sponge Cities: A Double-Edged Sword for Urban
Resilience”
Zhang Zhang. Huafu International (HFI). “Vanishing Cultures, Unraveling Ecosystems: Why Indigenous dispossession is a biodiversity risk the world keeps ignoring”
Viola Montevecchio. Beijing Number 4 High School International Campus. “Building Cities that Work for Half Their Population: Female-Favoring Policies Enhancing Gender Equality and Women’s Health in Seoul, South Korea”
Wenjin Zhao. High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. “A Sea of Data: AI Surveillance on the Water”
Yifei Wu. Tsinghua International School. “The New Space Race: Facing the Governance Challenge in Space Beyond Earth”
Yiyang Zou.Bellevue High School. “Shared Resources at Risk: How Epidemics Expose the Rules of Global Health”
Bronze Medal
Chun Hin Jayden Kong. The King’s School Canterbury. “Geoengineering the Global Commons: To Capture the Sun”
Yixuan Chen. Guangzhou Huamei International School. “Empowering Women’s Health in Resilient Cities: Lessons from NGO Urban Health Initiatives”
Wenxuan Zhang. Minhang Crosspoint Academy at Shanghai Wenqi Private Middle School. “India’s Solar Diplomacy in Africa: A Green Pathway for Emerging Powers”
Yiqi Yin. The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. “Beyond Trees: Delhi’s Urban Tree-Planting and Inequitable Resilience”
Anagha Sainath. American High School. “From Tweet to Treaty: Social Media as a
Diplomatic Tool”
Dohyeon Ryu. Eton College. “The Sand Crisis of Urban Growth”
Sang Hyun (Sean) Park. Seoul Foreign School. “Nigeria Baby Factories: A Gruesome Black Market in a Rising African Power”
Yohan Pareek. Weston High. “The Developing World Dreams of Rail: The Strategic Position of High-Speed Rail in Urban Futures”
Raymond Fadous. Jumeira Baccalaureate School. “A Silent Population: Why Excluding Syrian Infants from Rare Disease Research is a Global Loss”
Kian Lee. Northfield Mount Hermon. “The Unexpected Emerging Power: Japan in the Age of
Chips and AI”
Yiqi Mao. Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School. “Soft Power Strategies in Practice:
Educational Diplomacy in Sino-African Relations”
Xinyun Hu. Beijing International Bilingual Academy. “Barbados’ Blueprint: How Mia Mottley’s “Roofs to Reefs” Is Redefining Urban Resilience”
Yihan Yuan. The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University. “Possibility of a Renewed Pharmaceutical Order: Or, Potential for Africa as an Emerging Global Power”
Yunpan Xu. Wuhan Cogdel Cranleigh High School. “From a Fragile Federation to a
Rulemaker: How the UAE is Shaping the Global Order”
Xiaowen Zhang. Jinding Campus of Shanghai Private Pinghe School. “Sponge City-
Shanghai”
Hannah Park. Korea International School Jeju. “Geopolitical Balancing Acts: South Korea Economic Security Strategies in the UShina Trade Conflict”
Chen Yinuo. The Second High School Attached to BNU. “From Beijing to
Rotterdam:Adaptive Reform and Predictive Design to Face Aging Society”
Ziyao Zhuang.WLSA Shanghai Academy. “Resilience for Whom: A Tale of Two Models of Resilience”
Ray Sun. Detroit Country Day School. “Space Technology's Impact on Cultural Traditions and Heritage Sites”
Cisilia QIU. Leman Manhattan Preparatory School. “Singapore 15-Minute Urban Model: Barriers to Implementation and Scaling”
Hao Mengmeng. Shenzhen College of International Education. “China’s Yarlung Zangbo Megadam: Power, Peril, and the Politics of Water”
Anfeng Xie. St. Paul's School. “Caught in the Crosswinds: America’s Strategic Dilemma in the Global Clean Energy Race”
Zerong, Gong. Basis International School Park Lane Harbour. “China's Trump Card: Understanding the Geopolitics of Rare Earth Minerals”
Yiwen Hu. Zhengzhou Foreign Language School New Fengyang Campus. “Two Floods, One Warning: Rethinking Urban Resilience in a Warming World”
Millie Wang. Crofton House School. “The Shared Knowledge: Needs and Ways to the Right to Education.”
Qingyang Li. Branksome Hall School. “Tourism and Politics: How the Last Sanctuary Could be Ruined”
Zitong Ye. UWCSEA. “Uganda’s Oil Gamble Tests the Fragile Future of Lake Victoria Basin”
Zhu Yijing. Zhengzhou Foreign Language School. “The Beauty Industry's Plastic Paradox: Microplastics and Social Strife in Southeast Asia”
Qianhan Ding;Xiaoruo Lin. Shanghai Chongming Minben Middle School; Shanghai Soong Ching Ling School-International Division. “Space Invaders：Commercial Satellites and the Struggle for the Orbital Commons”
Wang Xiaotong. International Curriculum Center of RDFZ. “Balancing Surveillance and Privacy in Seoul: A New Urban Resilience Challenge”
Roy Jun. Bergen Catholic High School. “Warming Up to the World or Just a Facade? The Modernization of North Korea's Cities”
Zhuoran Li; Guanyan Nie. Shenzhen College of International Education. “Urbanization Without Peace: Rethinking Africa’s Path to Growth”
Taiheng Zhang. Shenzhen College of International Education. “The Paradox of Urbanization: The Casualties of Progress”
Zihan Tang. International Department, The Affiliated High School of SCNU. “The Kafala Case: Gulf Country Labor Systems’ Impact on Societal Growth and Migrant Human Rights”
Hermione Yanran Hu. Shanghai American School. “Between Superpowers and Mining Sustainability- Why Mongolia's Third Neighbor Policy Needs Fundamental Reform”
Bingye, Jin. Shanghai New Epoch Bilingual School. “The Flow of Pollution: The Silent Geopolitical Crisis of Transboundary Water Pollution”
Ziqian Ye. Guangdong Experimental High School. “Resilience vs. Disappearance Dual Paths of ICH Survival from Nüshu, Tea Songs to Global Heritage”
Ye Hao Xuan. Montverde Academy Shanghai. “Migrants and Urban Futures: Building Resilience through Inclusion”
Seokyung Hwang. North London Collegiate School Jeju. “Smart Cities : Hidden Water Costs of Data Centers”
Mofan Hong. British International School, Phuket. “The Self-Proclaimed Deputy Director: How Technocratic Moguls Disrupt Modern Warfare and Redefine Sovereign Boundaries”
Jiaxuan Liu. Xi'an Gaoxin No.1 High School. “Urban Resilience in the Face of Sudden Refugee Inflows”
Kaijian Zhang. Hefei Thomas School. “Designing Urban Dignity for the Forgotten Mind: The Importance of Dementia Villages as Populations Age”
Yichen Li. Nanjing Foreign Language School. “Caught In the Gap of Sino-Indian Dam Race: The Unheard Stewards of Brahmaputra”
Bai Mozhu. Beijing No.4 High School. “Emerging-Power Lawfare: Pretoria’s Strategy to Decenter Global Order”
Jiweon Kim. Korea International School. “The Hidden Cost of AI: How Data Centers Are Draining Urban Energy and Water”
Yizhen Zhu. Shanghai Shangde Experimental School. “Food Security in the City: How China’s Vegetable Basket Project Redefines Urban Resilience”
Avelyn Jing. The Harker School. “Indigenous Residents? Knowledge for building Climate Resilience: Lessons from Indian Communities”
Joanna Hou. Princeton High School. “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Geopolitics of Serbian Lithium Mining”
Aiden Zhang. BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Upper School. “Bangkok Flood Resilience Dilemma: How Urban Planning Fails the Poor”
WU, Junming. Discovery College. “Artisanal Miners behind the Global Battery Boom”
Tiancheng Tu. Westwood High School. “Strategic Balance and the Rise of Emerging Powers”
Fang Jingyi. Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy. “Japan’s Emerging Power in Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Peacebuilding”
ZHAO, Puyue. Shanghai Weiyu International School. “A History of Education Reform in East Asia: How China, Japan, and South Korea Used Schooling to Bolster Strong Economies”
Zhiyuan Ou. Virginia Episcopal School. “Revolutionizing Alzheimer’s Care: NeuroHope’s Global Solution for Equitable Healing”
Ziheng Huang. Asheville School. “Flood Control As An Urban Development Tool”
Linyi Lu. Shanghai SMIC Private School. “Tiny Cells, Big Impact: Algae's Role and Potential in Environmental Sustainability”
Yuhan Shi. Nanjing Foreign Language School. “Bon Voyage! Protecting Migratory Seabirds Through Collaborative International Funding”
Xiaoming Zhang. The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. “The Diminishing Delta: The Sediment Crisis of the Mekong River”
Sixuan Chen. The Bishop Strachan School. “Policies for Protection: Addressing Policy Failures and Indigenous Tokenism in Canada's Fishery Management”
Jin Jin. Living Word Shanghai. “Local Mismanagement, Global Consequences: Lessons from Madagascar's Land Crisis”
Tairan Chen. Upper Canada College. “From Concrete to Smart Cities: Fighting Floods in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
Yerassyl Kabdygali. Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools Natural Sciences and Mathematics program in the Nura district of Astana. “How to Sit on 2 Chairs Simultaneously: Turkish Influence on the World Order”
Richard Ayres. Kang Chiao International School Linkou Campus. “A Default’s Dividend: Crisis and Geopolitical Opportunity in Sri Lanka”
Zhiyuan Gao. Keystone Academy. “Thirsty AI: Fragmented Stewardship of a Shared Commons”
Jiaqi Zhao. The Hill School. “GenAI Water Consumption & Water-Fueled Conflicts in West Asia”
ZhiHui Wang. Ningbo Huamao international School. “Copenhagen and Shenzhen: Systemic Examples of Sustainable Development”
Yiming Gao. Lower Merion High School. “Vertical Farming and Urban Agriculture”
Yaqing Li. WLSA Shanghai Academy. “China’s Elderly Urban Migrant Workers: A Ticking Time Bomb”
Heyuan Fang. Holy Trinity School. “Future Cities, Past Generations, and the Present Possibilities of Intervention”
Rongze Mao. HD Beijing School. “AI Data Sovereignty from a Linguistic Perspective”
Jiyu Hu. Tabor Academy. “When the Cloud Hits the Grid: How Cities Keep the Power On”
Ye Eun Emma Kang. Hong Kong International School. “From Nets to Networks: How Technology is Transforming Indonesia’s Fisheries”
Peijiao Zhang. Keystone Academy. “Nigeria's Cultural Ascent— Nollywood, Afrobeat, and the shift in global influence”
Chengyu Gu. SJI International. “Collapse on a Tiny Island: Urban Fragility in Nauru”
Ying Leong Tan. Shanghai High School International Division. “Precision Medicine’s Promise: Can Gene Editing Cure the Incurable?”
Yuzi Zhang. Basis International Park Lane Harbor. “Trouble in Paradise: How Digital Nomads are Straining Relationships in Southeast Asia”
Yuchen Wang. Culver Academies. “What Happens When Survival in a Changing Climate Becomes a Privilege of the Wealthy—and Cities Profit from it?”
Yoo Jung. International School of Ho Chi Minh City. “How Dams Threaten Millions: Why the Mekong Future Must Be Shared”
Shangyang Yu. Shanghai YK Pao School. “Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Global Struggle for Technological Leadership”
Guoshwan Nian. Shanghai High School International Division. “Deep Sea Mining - The Risks of Riches in the Deep”
Xiaokai Wen. Shenzhen Senior High School Group International Division. “The Vanishing Frontier: Stewardship Failures in the Gran Chaco”
Wenrui Li. United World College Changshu. “Drone Delivery and Robotaxis: How Shenzhen is Reinventing the Smart City”
Chau Yu Kiu. Shanghai American School Puxi Campus. “From Displacement to Resilience: The Dual Effect of Immigration-Fueled Gentrification”
Wenhan Zhang. Carlucci American International School of Lisbon. “Living Pollutants in Portugal: Why Invasive Species Demand International Cooperation”
ZeQian Li. Hangzhou Foreign Languages School. “The Silent Epidemic: Hidden Crisis in Non-communicable Diseases”
Zexuan Li. Phillips Exeter Academy. “Zhuji: The “Pearl City” of Resilience”
Yi-Ning Chen. Kang Chiao International School Linkou Campus. “Infrastructure as
Diplomacy: Sri Lanka and New Politics of Influence”
Zhu Chenxi. YK Pao School. “Spectacle versus Survival: China’s Megaprojects and Japan’s Subterranean Resilience”
Jingxiang Jia. Beijing 101 Middle School. “The Place of Mexico in the US-China Trade War”
Song Chenchen. Loomis Chaffee. “Canals, Capital, and Control: Egypt’s Geopolitical Status and Order”
Haibo Wang. Beijing No.4 High School. “Space Debris and the Challenge of Equitable Governance in Outer Space”
Haiqin Le. WLSA. “Nigeria’s Digital Currency and the New Scramble for West Africa”
Dohyung (David) Kim. Seoul Foreign School. “The Silent Arms Race: How Nuclear Secrecy Is Rewriting Global Power”
Zonghan Li. George School. “Hue and Tokyo: Two Cities Leading the Way in Developing Urban Resilience Against Natural Disasters”
Qingruo Jing. Miss Porter's School. “Knowing Ourselves in the Age of AI: Psychological Literacy as a Global Commons”
Yi Xi Jin. Shanghai High School International Division. “The Dark Side of the Green Energy Revolution: Lithium Mining and Indigenous Futures”
Zhuangyi Gong. Affiliated High School of Peking University. “Seeds of Survival or Symbols of Inequality? Rethinking the Svalbard Global Seed Vault”
Leqing Guan. The Affiliated Internationally School Of Shenzhen University. “Africa’s Green Revolution: Will It Spark a New Era or Fall Victim to “Carbon Colonialism”?”
Tianyi Wu. Shenzhen College of International Education. “Expanding the Global Commons: From History to Health and Harmonization”
Jiayue Guo. UWC Changshu China. “Ethiopia Electrifies Its Future, Egypt and Sudan Eye Unpredictable Turbulence”
Polina Lowry. Vienna International School. “Base Diplomacy: Trkiye Challenge to
Superpower Monopoly”
Hojun Choi. Episcopal High School. “Parthenium Urban Footprint: How a Weed Became a City Problem”
Ruoqi Li. The Macduffie School. “A Pawn: The Geopolitics of Coveted Cyprus”
Sam Zhaode Huang. Harrow International School Hong Kong. “Global Commons in Crisis: Satellite Imagery for Humanitarian Relief”
Yanqing Yang. Shanghai Foreign Language School Affiliated to SISU. “Code and Creed: Malaysia’s Financial Model for a Fractured World”
Chen Yuexu. The Athenian School. “The DNA Cold War”
Jiashan LI;Yutong YIN. China World Academy;UWC. “Who Has the Right to Pollute?
Contested Rights, Historical Responsibility, and the Future of Global Climate Policy”
Xiuli Zhou. International School of Beijing. “Rising but Restricted: Poland’s Global Position”
Yuge Zhang. Beijing National Day School. “Mutual Benefit or Neocolonialism: China’s Emergence in Africa and the World”