{"id":6040,"date":"2014-01-14T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2021-10-02T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T18:33:45","slug":"sci-tech-inspiring-conservation-through-art-a-living-oceans-foundation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6040","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Inspiring Conservation through Art &#8211; A Living Oceans Foundation challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoceansfoundation.org\/profile\/aheemsoth\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Heemsoth<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoceansfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Living Oceans Foundation<\/a>\u00a0sent me this announcement:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Inspiring Conservation through Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you love art? Love the reefs? Then please read on.<\/p>\n<p>For this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoceansfoundation.org\/resources\/for-educators\/gis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science without Borders<b>\u00ae<\/b>\u00a0Challenge<\/a>, we are asking high school students around the world to use their creativity and inspiration to design poster art following the theme \u2018<i>Protect Our Coral Reefs<\/i>.\u2019 The student\u2019s artwork will portray an action that slows down the degradation of coral reefs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoceansfoundation.org\/resources\/for-educators\/gis\/\">[]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Challenge was created to get students and teachers more involved and interested in ocean conservation through various forms of art. Last year\u2019s contest was a video competition themed \u2018<i>How are we connected to the oceans<\/i>?\u2019 It was the first Challenge held by the Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation hopes that this contest will continue to inspire youth to become stewards of the environment in order to preserve, protect, and restore the world\u2019s oceans, and aquatic resources \u2013 the overarching theme of the Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding the Challenge and contest rules, please visit our website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoceansfoundation.org\/resources\/for-educators\/gis\/\">www.livingoceansfoundation.org\/resources\/for-educators\/gis\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video made by last year&#8217;s winner of the competition, which asked high school students to create a video to answer &#8220;the question,\u00a0<i>how are we all connected to the oceans?<\/i>\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4ClIo8_9SI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Heemsoth\u00a0of the\u00a0Living Oceans Foundation\u00a0sent me this announcement: Inspiring Conservation through Art Do you love art? Love the reefs? Then please read on. For this year\u2019s Science without Borders\u00ae\u00a0Challenge, we are asking high school students around the world to use their creativity and inspiration to design poster art following the theme \u2018Protect Our Coral Reefs.\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Inspiring Conservation through Art &#8211; A Living Oceans Foundation challenge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-science-and-technology","category-space-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1zq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17253,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17253","url_meta":{"origin":6040,"position":0},"title":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; Dec.11.2018","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. about student and amateur CubeSat \/ SmallSat projects and programs: ** How Beanie Babies helped UNCW reach space - WRAL.com On Tuesday, December 4, UNC Wilmington successfully launched their 3U CubeSat, about the size of a loaf of bread, Seahawk-1, along with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amateur\/Student Satellite&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amateur\/Student Satellite","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18132,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18132","url_meta":{"origin":6040,"position":1},"title":"OK Go contest to send student &#8220;art experiments&#8221; to space on Blue&#8217;s New Shepard","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The band OK Go is hosting the Art In Space contest in which a \"student art experiment\" will fly to space on the Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard rocket vehicle. 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