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:
"Reinvigorate" by Sophia Kim, Age 16, California, United States of America
In this artwork, I wanted to depict how replanting not only helps restore environments on land, but also in the sea. Just as trees can be replanted to help stabilize the natural balance of the soil and ecosystems both on land and in the sea, coral can also be replanted to help restore reefs. The girl plants a sapling surrounded by bare trees with a dying coral reef behind her, but in front of her, the reef comes back to life, regaining its color and inhabitants. The plants on the bars surrounding her represent hydroponic farming, a way of growing new plants to sustain our lives without harming other life through soil runoff and pollution.
