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 beauty of life, towards a mass extinction." by Lucía Roig Lago, Age 18, Spain
ARTIST’S STATEMENT: All species are important to the ecosystem, as there is an interconnected relationship. All the animals in the drawing (all from the IUCN red list) are swimming together, towards a dark future, the darkened edges of the paper, from the center, bright and colorful, since there is still life. Throughout history there have been five mass extinctions, and we are on our way to the sixth one. The person swimming in the center, next to the manta ray, represents our role in this extinction: we are the ones who have caused this disaster, and the ones who can solve it. Let's swim on their side. In order to reverse this situation it is being proposed to increase the protection areas and preserve the population of animals and plants in regions dominated by humans.
