The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge, our annual student art competition. This year we asked students to create a piece of art that illustrates one or more actions that governments, non-profits, park managers, and indigenous communities can take to preserve coral reefs using a ridge to reef approach to conservation. We are thrilled with the entries that we received!
We received 510 qualifying pieces of artwork from 49 different countries, so picking the finalists was a difficult decision. Ultimately, finalists were chosen based on how well the artwork exemplified this year’s theme, the quality of the artwork, and the creativity and originality of their artwork.
We hope you will be as impressed with the submissions we received as we were. Without further ado, here are the finalists for Ages 11-14 of the 2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge:
"Make a Little Wind, Make a Little Wave" by Dana Cho, Age 11, Singapore
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: In this artwork, I was inspired by the story ""Town Musicians of Bremen"". The animals imply the idea of different people working together to make a positive result. In this painting, there are two main messages which I want to show. First, the animals in the picture are land and sea animals holding hands together in a circle with the mangrove tree in the middle. This show that the ecosystem is interconnected and cannot be seen separately. The second message I wanted to give is, as the animals in the ""Town Musicians of Bremen"" show, they would not have made a change to their lives if they did not work as a team, as they were considered useless by themselves. Governments, park managers, non-profits, alone cannot make the change and require everyone to participate to make the winds and waves of changes for us and the future generation."
