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 turtle's holiday" by Hayeon Kim, Age 15, North Carolina, United States of America
Coral reefs are important to sea as they provide oxygen and habitats to sea animals, but they are being damaged and are declining by things from land. Figuratively, the chunk of trash represents everything from humans and land that are threatening seas and reefs. Where the coral should be there are tires and a bunch of trash. It shows how the land and sea are interconnected, and how the coral reefs are declining because of the trash. Turtles are one of the animals that have been helped by the reef, so now the turtle is cleaning the trash for the reefs.The turtle is trying to protect the reefs from the things of land, but they are much bigger than what the turtle's body can handle.
