2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge Semi-Finalists: 15-19 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 of the ways people can use a ridge-to-reef approach to conservation to preserve coral reefs.
Entries to the Science Without Borders® Challenge are judged in two categories based on age. Here are the semi-finalists selected from the older group of applicants, students 15-19 years old:
"Still There Is Hope" by Mrigna Goel, Age 16, India
A coral reef is the most important source of nitrogen, oxygen and other nutrients required for marine life. However, due to natural and human disruptions they are declining. This painting highlights the excessive use of pesticides being the core inducement for their meteoric devastation. The art depicts contrast between the positive and negative factors affecting coral reefs. While the pesticide is personified, trying to hang these corals to death, the rain drop depicts the glimmer of hope and purity. The pregnant woman and the light being shun from the drop illuminate the region around it, thus indicating rebirth and life. Their despoliation can be prevented through the development of certain lands on the coast restricting the use of chemicals. More trees need to be planted and carbon emissions reduced as to increase the overall rainfall. This would neutralize the ramification of fertilisers on coral reef.
