2021 Science Without Borders® Challenge Finalists: 11-14 year old students
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists in our 2021 Science Without Borders® Challenge! This international student art contest engages students in important ocean issues through art. For this year’s competition, students were asked to illustrate one or more of the benefits mangroves provide to people, other organisms, or the environment.
Entries to the Science Without Borders® Challenge are judged in two categories based on age. Here are the finalists selected from the younger group of applicants, students 11-14 years old:
"Last Breath" by Yoonho Kim, Age 13, California, United States of America
Artist's Statement: In my painting, there is a hospitalized man with an oxygen mask. The mask slowly merges with the mangrove trees that fill the atmosphere in the background. I wanted to use man as a metaphor for the humans and other organisms on earth that benefit from the clean air that the Mangroves provide. Without the mangroves, the man may die because the mangroves help filter the air and reduce carbon dioxide that causes climate change.
