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:
"The ‘Blue’ Path" by Julia Gu, Age 16, Washington, United States of America
Coral reefs can be protected by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The white path represents a course of action that people can take to protect coral reefs, which is sustainable architecture. In this painting, there are sustainable buildings that already exist, such as the Shanghai Tower in China, Bosco Verticale in Italy, Parkroyal Collection Hotel in Singapore, and the Bullitt Center in the US. Some of these buildings get energy in sustainable ways like solar panels and wind turbines. Others are made to accommodate lots of greenery. Less CO2 in the air means colder water, reduced ocean acidification, and colorful reefs. This painting shows that sustainable building designs can come from any country in the world in any beautiful shape: a vision of cities full of eco-friendly buildings supporting healthy coral reefs, even if they are far away from each other.
