The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge, our annual student art competition. This year we asked students to create a piece of art that illustrates one or more actions that governments, non-profits, park managers, and indigenous communities can take to preserve coral reefs using a ridge to reef approach to conservation. We are thrilled with the entries that we received!
We received 510 qualifying pieces of artwork from 49 different countries, so picking the finalists was a difficult decision. Ultimately, finalists were chosen based on how well the artwork exemplified this year’s theme, the quality of the artwork, and the creativity and originality of their artwork.
We hope you will be as impressed with the submissions we received as we were. Without further ado, here are the finalists for Ages 11-14 of the 2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge:
Second Place (11-14): "One Connection" by Jeongwoo Lee, Age 14, New Jersey, United States of America
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: The concept of the ridge to reef shows the interconnectedness of our planet. There is a misconception of how forest fires, pollution, and bleached coral reefs are irrelevant to each other and us when it isn’t. All are the results of human activities and the cause of the suffering and death of biotic factors on our planet, Earth. In the end, it’s a continuous cycle that will lead to a significant effect for us as a whole. In the artwork, “one connection”, I wished to portray the seriousness of how the pollution in the land that we’re most familiar with can also affect the sea and the pollution will come back to us. How the tree, our planet is getting sick and the anguish some creatures are already going through.
