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:
"Diving Out of Time" by Victoria Lin, Age 16, California, United States of America
The piece depicts delicate, yet complex bonds between land and reef by connecting coral to Earth’s terrain, and inside the terrain is a nervous system attached to the coral. Our land and our oceans have a symbiotic relationship. Nerves control our body’s functions, and when human activity on land damages these nerves, land, and oceans are debilitated. Excess waste and trash on land find their way into seas, and chemicals that ooze off of manmade products contaminate water. Fortunately, we can take steps to help conserve our oceans and coral reefs. A deep diver strives to restore the cleanliness of our plastic-filled reefs, representing the need for conservation leaders to be more accountable for our society’s waste management. On the surface level, we can take smaller, yet equally important steps; we can support and eat at sustainable seafood restaurants with a role in reverting overfished aquatic ecosystems to life.
