2023 Science Without Borders® Challenge Finalists: 11-14 year old students
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is delighted to announce the finalists in our 2023 Science Without Borders® Challenge! This international contest engages students in important ocean issues through art. This year we asked students to create a piece of art that highlights the beauty and importance of a marine species that is on the brink of extinction.
This year we received more entries than ever before. Over 1,200 entries flooded in from 67 different countries, and let us tell you, it was no easy feat to choose the finalists. We hope you will be as impressed with the submissions we received as we were.
Entries to the Science Without Borders® Challenge are judged in two categories based on age. Here are the finalists selected from the younger group of applicants, students 11-14 years old:
"Mother River saves lives" by Alexander Zhang, Age 11, China
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: There is a famous river across China we call it Yellow River as well as it is Mother River brings up Chinese people, history and culture for thousands of years. The Yellow River’s extremity is sea. Numerous marine organisms live in the sea, and I love the sea and animals. Since I was 3 years old, my parents take me to visit Marine Museums around the world annually from Beijing to Hong Kong, from Korea to Japan, from San Francisco to Guam. I have been noticed that the pollution is a kind of serious around the end of Mother River and Yellow Sea. Pieces of marine organisms faces to the threaten to be endangered.It is time for me to conduct propaganda reducing garbage into the sea and we have to protect the marine organisms, then I decided to in participate it.
