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:
"One Connection" by Jeongwoo Lee, Age 14, New Jersey, United States of America
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: The concept of the ridge to reef shows the interconnectedness of our planet. There is a misconception of how forest fires, pollution, and bleached coral reefs are irrelevant to each other and us when it isn’t. All are the results of human activities and the cause of the suffering and death of biotic factors on our planet, Earth. In the end, it’s a continuous cycle that will lead to a significant effect for us as a whole. In the artwork, “one connection”, I wished to portray the seriousness of how the pollution in the land that we’re most familiar with can also affect the sea and the pollution will come back to us. How the tree, our planet is getting sick and the anguish some creatures are already going through.
