Get ready to be inspired! The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is delighted to reveal the finalists of the 2023 Science Without Borders® Challenge. This year’s theme is “The Sixth Extinction,” and we challenged young artists from around the world to create a piece of artwork that highlights the beauty and importance of a marine species that are on the brink of extinction. We are thrilled with the entries that we received!
Over 1,200 entries flooded in from 67 different countries, and let us tell you, it was no easy feat to choose the finalists. But after much deliberation, our judges have selected finalists whose exceptional artwork surpassed all expectations in terms of creativity, originality, and adherence to the theme.
The submissions were simply breathtaking, and we can’t wait for you to see them. So, without further ado, here are the finalists for Ages 11-14 of the 2023 Science Without Borders® Challenge. These talented artists will leave you in awe with their remarkable creations that bring attention to the urgency of preserving our treasured marine species.
"Mother River saves lives" by Alexander Zhang, Age 11, China
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: There is a famous river across China we call it Yellow River as well as it is Mother River brings up Chinese people, history and culture for thousands of years. The Yellow River’s extremity is sea. Numerous marine organisms live in the sea, and I love the sea and animals. Since I was 3 years old, my parents take me to visit Marine Museums around the world annually from Beijing to Hong Kong, from Korea to Japan, from San Francisco to Guam. I have been noticed that the pollution is a kind of serious around the end of Mother River and Yellow Sea. Pieces of marine organisms faces to the threaten to be endangered.It is time for me to conduct propaganda reducing garbage into the sea and we have to protect the marine organisms, then I decided to in participate it.
Stay tuned to find out who the finalists are from students in our 15-19 year-old category!
