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:
"Propagules' Future" by Zihan Wang, Age 14, New York, United States of America
Artist's Statement: Mangroves are, in fact, the only species of trees that can tolerate salt water. While they’re thriving on ocean coasts, they’re also being a big help to people that live in coastal communities. These trees possess thick roots, which helps cushion the effect of storms from towns. Despite their great protective properties, deforestation is a problem wreaking havoc on these forests. Hope is the main focus in my piece. Mangrove saplings bring a new light of promise for this issue. Replanting is the best bet, and if the hope is for these trees to be saved, the distribution of these sprouts should be widespread, as shown by the flying envelopes. Looking up from the bottom of another envelope, every one of them contains a bright new world clean water, flocks of coastal birds, and teeming with mangroves.
