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:
"The Redemption of Coral Reefs" by Yuetong Yan, Age 13, China
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: Corals are animals created by millions of small living things, they are beautiful, however, pollution in our world, mostly carbon dioxide is destroying millions of them. In the drawing, there are many normal things displayed, but, normal items in our daily life actually produce vast amount of carbon dioxide which is one of the most harmful things to corals. The bottom part is the ocean, we can see the coral is badly changing. Exaggerated color on the animals and items obviously shows the threat it creates, which is the manufacturing of carbon dioxide. The color filled in the canvas represents the carbon dioxide, and the sea grass tells humans what is the situation of saving the coral. It is an important part of the art work. In addition, the escaping marine animals from the ocean also shows the impact of the lack of coral reef.
