Think Essay Prize 2026 Longlist Announced

The Think Student Essay Prize competition has been hugely popular this year. We received over 1,500 student submissions.

Thank you to every single applicant. We greatly enjoyed reading all your essays. We also owe a big thank you to the very many schools with students who submitted essays – we very much appreciate your support.

Given the competition produced so many applicants, we sought the help of a number of additional judges who were involved in the first stage of selection. Our thanks to all of them for doing a very thorough and professional job.

The judging panel and its chair, Dr Stephen Law, have selected the following applicants for this year’s longlist:

• Arjun Mehrotra, Ascend International School
• Avanya Meattle 
• Adit Ahluwalia, Westminster School London
• Abdul Rehman, Cadet College Hassanabdal, Pakistan
• Áine Mullan, The Becket School
• Aki Fukazawa, The British School of Milan
• Conor Thomson, London Academy of Excellence Stratford
• Claire Pan, Horace Mann School
• Dzhumabekova Adelya Kanatbekovna, Secondary General Education School No. 29, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
• Eva Henley, JFS School
• Ella Campodonic
• Freya Brolly, James Allen’s Girls School
• Fode Victor Sadio, The WREN School
• Ivanna Muñoz-Meza
• Ishanvi Jaiswal, Wilton High School
• Iyanu Bashorun, Ontario Virtual School
• Jacob Shmidt
• Joaquin Diaz de Leon, Leander High School
• Kenzy Andika Duka, SMA Taruna Nusantara Magelang
• Letian Cheng, Nanjing Foreign Language School
• Muhammad Raza, Pak Turk Maarif International Schools and Colleges
• Mazhira Jacobs
• Reyansh Sai
• Ryan Shen, Radley College
• Rintaro Aoyama 
• Rania Sutton, Wellington College
• Somtochukwu Benedicta Agujiobi, Roseville Secondary School
• Sunghyun Bae, Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies
• Shriram Rajagopal, Conestoga High School
• Shiloh Yeo, Raffles Institution
• Sehwan Park, Newton Academy, Seoul
• Sadhana Malairaj, Indian School Al Maabela
• Weizhong Li, Nanjing Jinling High School
• Zahira Arzatisya Maharani, MAN 2 Kota Malang

Please note that the longlist does not include six applicants for privacy reasons.