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:

 

"Ridge to Reef" by Zhaoge Wang, Age 13, ChinaYin 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"

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"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"