The Science without Borders® Challenge, an international art competition for primary and secondary school students, is created to get students and teachers interested in ocean conservation through various forms of art. The Challenge engages students to promote the need to preserve, protect, and restore the world’s oceans and aquatic resources, and inspires them to be creative while learning about important ocean conservation issues.
2025-2026 B.A.M. Student Voices
Throughout the Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) and Jamaica Awareness of Mangroves in Nature (J.A.M.I.N.) programs, we evaluate each phase of the mangrove education and restoration process to better understand how students are learning, growing, and connecting with their coastal environments.
Before the programs begin, students share what they already know about mangroves and how they feel about them. As the program progresses, we continue to gather feedback to see how their knowledge evolves from identifying mangrove species and understanding food webs to recognizing the role mangroves play in coastal protection and climate change mitigation.
But the surveys go beyond science content.
We also ask students…
