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:
"The World in Our Hands" by Charissa Laurelia Nadine, Age 17, Indonesia
ARTIST’S STATEMENT: We seem to take more than we give. Horseshoe crabs AKA the world's living fossils are a gem to the biomedical industry due to the miraculous properties of their blue blood. Constant harvesting and bleeding these creatures to near death has impacted their population in many corners of the world, bringing them closer to extinction with every sold bottle. This painting illustrates how humanity should change its course of action, using our technology not for self-interest, but for the wellness of all existence. Until we find a suitable medicinal alternative, we should be kind to marine life, preserving or "cloning" them as this painting suggests by artificial means or simply by maintaining their habitats. After all, we're borrowing what they can offer to make the world a better place. Why must we destroy it with our greed?
