Indian-American student Aryash Shyam, 14, has won a $1,000 national writing prize for his historical-fiction story set in a Philadelphia print shop on July 4, 1776. The Pennsylvania ninth-grader was among four middle-school winners of the 2026 John Estey Student Writing Competition. He has also earned recognition for projects involving space research, artificial intelligence and robotics. Indian-American student Aryash Shyam, 14, has won a $1,000 national writing prize for his historical-fiction story set in a Philadelphia print shop on July 4, 1776. The Pennsylvania ninth-grader was among four middle-school winners of the 2026 John Estey Student Writing Competition. He has also earned recognition for projects involving space research, artificial intelligence and robotics.
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Meet Aryash Shyam, 14, Indian-American student who won $1,000 writing prize
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