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:
"Connections" by Jenny Zou, Age 14, Canada
Artist's Statement: Mangroves Matter. The engine for entire ecosystems and home to more than 50 rare bird, reptile, and mammal species, I am in awe of the incredible biodiversity fostered by Mangroves. The mangroves I see hums with life from the herons, sharks, and fish. However, this vivacity contrasts with the stark pollution on the right, illustrating the purifying qualities of Mangroves as a filter. Mangroves not only connects upstream and downstream, but also connects past, present, and future in rendering a green tomorrow between humankind and nature. I was able to incorporate the unique bonds between Australian aboriginal peoples and mangrove culture in their bold geometric interpretations of egrets and sheepsheads. While Mother Nature, in her locks of roots and dense mangrove wreath, gazes too into this future. This piece is her address of mangroves from past to future and nature to humankind.
