Busan Foreign School is proud to congratulate student Kaylee Page, Executive of the BFS SEED Club, on earning the Excellence Award in the prestigious Lumiere Scholars Essay Contest.

The BFS SEED Club is a student-led organization dedicated to exploring ethics, philosophy, and global issues through thoughtful discussion and inquiry. Kaylee’s award-winning essay, “The City’s Leftovers: What Does Worth Require?”, examined society’s moral responsibility in addressing poverty and inequality, drawing upon the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant and Peter Singer.

Inspired by her observations of elderly poverty, Kaylee crafted a deeply reflective essay that connected personal experience with ethical analysis and broader global issues. Through careful reasoning and compelling argumentation, her work explored important questions surrounding dignity, compassion, and human worth.

The Lumiere Scholars Essay Award invites high school students from around the world to engage critically with issues that matter to them, cross disciplinary boundaries, challenge assumptions, and defend their ideas using rigorous evidence and analysis. Essay submissions are reviewed by an international Academic Advisory Committee composed of distinguished professors and researchers.

In recognition of her achievement, Kaylee received the Excellence Award along with a $1,000 scholarship to support future research opportunities.

Kaylee’s accomplishment reflects the spirit of intellectual curiosity, thoughtful leadership, and global awareness that Busan Foreign School strives to cultivate in its students. We are proud of her for using her voice to engage meaningfully with complex social and ethical questions and for representing the BFS community with distinction.