2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge Finalists: 11-14 year old students
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is thrilled to announce the finalists in our 2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge! This international contest engages students in important ocean issues through art. 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 hope you will be as impressed with the submissions we received as we were. 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:
"World in the Fishing Net" by Yuhan Cheng, Age 13, China
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: Nowadays, because of overfishing, pollution, and lots of other reason. Coral reef in lots of areas are in great danger. In the drawing, I draw myself wrapping the fish net, trying to project the little coral world inside it. The fish net representing the overfishing, and that human is the main cause of the death of coral reef. There are lots of gorgeous coral growing in the small world, I draw this because I want people to always remember the beauty of coral and the nature. In the middle, there is a girl, laying on the ground, legs bend together. Looks like she is sick and don’t have any energy. This represent that human and coral are community of common future, and we rely on nature. Coral is a part of nature, and the nature is protecting us. The girl represent that human is also in great danger.
