The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2020 Science Without Borders® Challenge, our annual student art competition. This year we asked students to illustrate things people can do to help save coral reefs–and boy did they deliver!
The foundation received more entries to this year’s competition than ever before. Nearly 700 students from 43 countries sent in artwork, 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 of the 2020 Science Without Borders® Challenge:
Middle School Finalists
Disappearing Ocean by Lindsey Ahn, Age 14, United States 
Coral Reef Superhero by Anish Aradhey, Age 14, United States 
What We Don’t See by Catherine Chan, Age 14, United States 
The Being We Hurt by Brendan Cho, Age 13, United States 
Environmental Awareness by George Fokin, Age 13, Russian Federation 
The Choices We Make by Justin Kim, Age 13, United States 
Holding the Key to Coral Rebirth by Maree Sialepis, Age 14, Australia 
Fragmented by Nadia Tsai, Age 13, United States 
Actions of Waves by Sarah Zhang, Age 14, Canada
High School Finalists
A Child Is All It Takes by Hannah Cha, Age 17, United States 
A Bowl of Earth by Young Suh Choi, Age 18, United States 
Flourishing Coral Reef on Our Hands by Yujean Choi, Age 16, Republic of Korea 
Riding Toward a Better Tomorrow by Rachelle Hu, Age 17, United States 
The Ocean We Love by Alyssa Kim, Age 15, United States 
Our Roots by Michelle Kirtich, Age 18, United States 
The Reef We Read by Stacey Lei, Age 16, United States 
A Look into the Future by Daniela Macaya, Age 17, Costa Rica 
Heart of the Ocean by Carina Sun, Age 17, United States 
Hero and Villain by Kelly Yan, Age 17, United States
To view the artist’s statements, visit our Facebook page!
One Comment on “Finalists of the 2020 Science Without Borders Challenge!”
Jan Baldwin
Those are beautiful!
A big hello to you, Amy, and to Liz for challenging these young people to think about what they are learned, and their responsibility to protect the health of the ocean. They have produced remarkable works of art. It must have been very hard to choose the winners. You can tell those young artists took to heart what they were learning about the ocean and how important it is to protect it.