2020 Science Without Borders® Challenge: Middle School Finalists
Congratulations to the middle school finalists in our 2020 Science Without Borders® Challenge! This international student art competition aims to engage middle students in ocean conservation through art. This year we asked students to illustrate things people can do to help save coral reefs–and boy did they deliver!
"Fragmented" by Nadia Tsai, Age 13, United States
Soon the negative impacts of human activity will come rebounding, and the blood of millions of species will lie in humanity’s hands. The heart symbolizes how everything is interconnected; what affects a part of a greater whole will only spread throughout the whole system like poison, eventually reaching the center of the situation. There is still a chance to strive towards redemption and pick up the pieces that were formed before it completely collapses. Fissures on her surface represent how delayed action will prolong the time needed to restore coral reefs and further the amount of damage inflicted on the Earth, ensuing in less possibility of recuperation. While many might think it is impossible to retrieve what was once obtained in the past, it is a greater crime if the human race doesn’t take responsibility for their actions. The people may resolve to stand on the sidelines to feign ignorance over the debris lying beneath the shell but humankind cannot erase what they have done without interfering.