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:
"Right Whale is Not Alone" by Candy Zhang, Age 11, China
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: A fat, slow, and docile North Pacific right whale mother and her kid are swimming in shallow waters near the shoreline with a mother and a daughter. Not far away, a humans' fishing boat with spears and nets gape the red mouth as if to proclaim the imminent disappearance of these endangered species from the earth. Look at the lights on the shore and the night glow in the water. How much the brightness of the night sky is given by the whale oil with blood and tears? But two pairs of mothers and daughters unaware of it, continue to play and sing. Do humans become less greedy? Or do these ocean giants no longer trust humans? The magnificent, capricious, colorful sea seems to respond to us silently.
