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:
"Ridge to Reef" by Zhaoge Wang, Age 13, China
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: The work shows the basic idea of Tai Chi that there is Yang in Yin and Yin in Yang through the Tai Chi diagram of Yin-Yang fish.From the ridge to the reef, from the land to the sea.The sea is Yin, and there is Yang in the Yin, just as there are corals and reefs in the sea;The mountain is Yang, and there is Yin in the Yang, just like the aquatic system naturally formed on the ridge. Yin yang fish describes the characteristics of yin and Yang in all things in nature,:They are high and low, opposite and inclusive of each other.This paper expounds that human beings should be in awe of nature. As art creators, we have no way to formulate a systematic and scientific protection plan.We can only advocate people to protect our ecological balance with the understanding of the operation law of all things in nature.
