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:
"Euphoria" by Celine Yang, Age 14, Republic of Korea
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: Through the land and sea, every aspect of our ecosystem is interconnected. Unfortunately, as time passes, humans created problems such as climate change and ocean acidification have risen, affecting many coral reefs and marine lives underwater. In order to portray the passing of time, an ancient building was added. In old times, when humans hadn’t had destroyed the environment, the reefs were alive and animals such as dolphins and turtles were abundant. This contrast in color between the reefs and the ancient building illustrates the differences between the colorful reefs and the humans who are causing problems to marine life. The ridges on the top of the drawing represent the land, showing how human-made disturbances are overshadowing our marine life today. Time in the past was full of marine life with an amplitude of reefs and animals, but human-made problems are overshadowing this euphoria.
