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:
"Make a Little Wind, Make a Little Wave" by Dana Cho, Age 11, Singapore
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: In this artwork, I was inspired by the story ""Town Musicians of Bremen"". The animals imply the idea of different people working together to make a positive result. In this painting, there are two main messages which I want to show. First, the animals in the picture are land and sea animals holding hands together in a circle with the mangrove tree in the middle. This show that the ecosystem is interconnected and cannot be seen separately. The second message I wanted to give is, as the animals in the ""Town Musicians of Bremen"" show, they would not have made a change to their lives if they did not work as a team, as they were considered useless by themselves. Governments, park managers, non-profits, alone cannot make the change and require everyone to participate to make the winds and waves of changes for us and the future generation."
