Student Works
AScholar Essay Contest 2021
Essay Prompt: How has your life changed for the better during this pandemic?
Student Name: Ryoto Wakamatsu
Grade: 5th
Award: 1st Place
How has the Pandemic Changed my Life for the Better?
Student Name: Rianne Paek
Grade: 5th
Award: 2nd Place
AScholar Essay Contest 2022
Essay Prompt: What is your greatest dream or goal? What will your dream/goal contribute to the world? (This can be an opinion, narrative, or creative writing.)
Student Name: Ariana Dadgostar
Grade: 5th
Award: 1st Place
Student Name: Brandon Kim
Grade: 4th
Award: 2nd Place
AScholar Essay Contest 2023
Essay Prompt: Choose a pressing problem in this world and write about it. (You can talk about its affects, what could be a solution, how you connect with it, etc.)
Student Name: Cyrus Dadgostar
Grade: 4th
Award: 1st Place
Childhood Obesity: Global Public Health Crisis
Student Name: Myron Yeung
Grade: 5th
Award: 2nd Place
Global Warming Needs A Scorning
AScholar Essay Contest 2024
Essay Prompt: Please reflect on a typical day in your life currently, and then consider what you imagine would be your ideal/perfect day. If you could have the perfect day tomorrow, how would you spend your time? Why? Imagine you are discussing this with a person who is unfamiliar with your background.
Student Name: Vincent Lu
Grade: 5th
Award: 1st Place
Student Name: Vehaan Mishra
Grade: 4th
Award: 2nd Place
Student Name: Cyrus Dadgostar
Grade: 5th
Award: 3rd Place
AScholar Speech Contest 2024
Speech Prompts:
Platform: Write and perform a 3-5 minute informative speech of a topic of your choosing. This topic should be something that you find to be important.
Interp: Find and preform a short story or flash fiction of your choosing. At the beginning of your speech, add a short introduction of a theme that is present in the story.
Student Name: Cyrus Dadgostar
Grade: 5th
Award: 1st Place
Title: Did You Hear the One About Iranian American?
Student Name: Aarish Bal
Grade: 5th
Award: 2nd Place
Title: A Scholar Speaks, A Scholar Writes, A Scholar Learns
Student Name: Joseph Lee
Grade: 5th
Award: 3rd Place
Title: Shrewd Todie and Lyrer the Miser
AScholar Essay Contest 2025
Essay Prompt: TBD
AScholar Speech Contest 2025
Speech Prompt: TBD