2023 Science Without Borders® Challenge Finalists: 15-19 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 older group of applicants, students 15-19 years old:
"All Lives Matter" by Fatimah Faheem, Age 17, United States of America
ARTIST’S STATEMENT: The Sixth Extinction” is about how humans changed the world mainly the environment. As time passes humans developed better technologies and that created more extinct species. Most of the human activities negatively affect the environment and decreased biodiversity and already lost lots of beautiful species. Not only marine lives but every species are beautiful and precious, and they matter to this world. All biodiversity are support all life on Earth, including humans. Without them, we cannot have healthy ecosystems to provide us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. And people also need to value nature itself. Steelhead Trout develop differently depending on their environment and they serve a crucial role in the dietary needs most of the predatory animals. My artwork shows the beauty of nature when the steelhead trout were not endangered.
