2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge Semi-Finalists: 11-14 year old students
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is pleased to announce the semi-finalists in our 2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge! This international student art contest engages students in important ocean issues through art. For this year’s competition, students were asked to illustrate one or more actions people can take to protect coral reefs using a “Ridge to Reef”conservation approach.
Entries to the Science Without Borders® Challenge are judged in two categories based on age. Here are the semi-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
"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."
