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:

 

"Ridge to Reef Catastrophe" by Ashley Ko, Age 16, Nevada, United States of America

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My artwork relates to the theme, “Ridge to Reef,” as it provides a glimpse of the struggling life that is occurring in the animals and plants that are living in these ecosystems. The dark, mysterious figure that is placed in the middle, is filled with pollution and leads to all disaster. This antagonist is bringing along catastrophe as it approaches the whirlpool of all life: land and sea. It is important to save both ecosystems and the life that is living in these areas.