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:
"The Redemption of Coral Reefs" by Yuetong Yan, Age 13, China
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.
