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:
"Ocean's womb" by Naina Singh, Age 16, India
As correctly put by Robert Wyland, the world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves. From the land to the sea, everything is interconnected. We depend on this enormous ecosystem for our survival. Coral reefs teem with diverse life. While the father signifies the mountains which nourish the ocean, the mother represents the ocean itself.The father's hand provides clean water to thousands of species living on the reef or in the mother's belly that is the womb of the deep ocean in danger. My artwork tries to illustrate pain & struggle suffered by the water creatures through threats caused by human activities like deforestation & improper waste disposal.I was inspired by my trip to the islands & articles on the "Ridge to Reef" management approach.To conserve this divine part of nature, we must take action now and focus on an integrated method through a combination of community conservation areas and wastewater.
