OCSA students receive Regional Awards in the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
The following OCSA students were honorees in the Writing category for the 2026 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, which celebrates creative teens regionally and nationally with awards, exhibitions, publications, and scholarships.
Regional Gold Key
Sailee Charlu (VA, ‘27) - “Ode to my deviated nasal septa, a Champu Kavya for my Mother”
Jenna Hong (CW, ‘28) - “double roadkill”
Chloe Je (CW, ‘28) - “Pill Bug Generations Report”, “Criticism to Her Gossip”
Matthew Nguyen (CW, ‘27) - “SYSTEMS OF CHANGE”
YuQiao Shao (CW, ‘29) - “The City of Hearts”, “Feed me to the Fire”, “Runaway”
Audrey Shih (CW, ‘27) - “to break this mentality of a dying dove”, “the loving act of forgetting”, “art is revolution in our veins”
Ashley Sunwoo (CW, ‘29) - “The Tongue Across The Sea”
Rebecca Yang (CW, ‘27) - “Rebirth”, “3-Part Analysis on the Writing Process”, “how to make oolong tea”, “In war, no one is human”, “Google Search: How to Resurrect a Culture?”, “10 Things About My Culture”, “& Asphalt”, “Journey Towards You”
Regional Silver Key
Sailee Charlu (VA, ‘27) - “Shifting Perspectives on Confederate Statues: The Need for More Representative Monuments”
Kate Ha (CW, ‘28) - “Moments Stolen”
Jaden Hong (CW, ‘29) - “The Miracle Tree”
Jenna Hong (CW, ‘28) - “riverbend”, “on self destructing”
Chloe Je (CW, ‘28) - “Garden View”
Doyeon Kim (DM, ‘28) - “The Detrimental Reality of Luxury Perfume Advertising”
Matthew Nguyen (CW, ‘27) - “Spin Doctors and Sorcerors”
Jamie Noh (AE, ‘30) - “One of These Days”
YuQiao Shao (CW, ‘29) - “The House, Abandoned”, “strawberries”, “A Dissection on Sirens by Marilyn Chan, sponsored by the Aquarium of the Bay”
Chloe Yang (CW, ‘27) - “breasts & eggs”
Rebecca Yang (CW, ‘27) -”Chinese Ethnic Enclaves: First Generation Immigrants' Employment Assimilation”, “Slam of Man”, “parting thoughts”, “ordering at a restaurant”, “2nd grader discovers popularity”, “as the days shorten”, “Ordinary”, “relearning”
You (Eddy) You (ACT, ‘29) - “The Wanderer”
Tags: Spring-2026, Visual-Arts, Creative-Writing, Design-&-Media, Arts-&-Enterprise, Acting