Students across the state are invited to participate in the fifth annual Alaska Radon Poster Contest, an event created as an outlet for Alaska youth to showcase their artistic talents and promotion for a public health program.

The contest is sponsored by the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, the American Lung Association in Alaska and the National Extension Healthy Homes Partnership.

Alaskan youth aged 9 to 14 are encouraged to submit their posters to “help us spread the news about the dangers of radon through their art,” DGGS Geological Health Hazards Program Manager Paul Goodfellow said in a Nov. 6 press release.

Radon is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that, according to the Environmental P

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