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:
"Our World in Hydroponics" by Kiyoon Suh, Age 17, Republic of Korea
One way that we can hope to conserve our oceans through our actions on land is by using hydroponics, a method of sustainable farming that doesn't require planting crops. In my piece, I depicted the ocean and land as one great hydroponic system to illustrate how converting to hydroponics has broad positive implications on both the ocean and land. Hydroponic pipes carrying nutrients from the water shower water over the plants on the land to nurture their growth. At the same time, pipes extending down from the roots of the trees carry their own nutrients to the ocean, showing how the land also benefits the waters correspondingly. Both the corals and the trees are drawn plentifully and vibrantly to show how a future based on hydroponics could allow the various realms of our world to flourish.
