Radiation Protection and Release Prevention

NATIONAL RADON POSTER CONTEST

Winners were announced for the 2007 New Jersey Radon Poster Contest. The DEP Radon Section conducted a mass mailing to New Jersey schools, inviting students ages 9-14 to participate. The goal was to raise awareness about the harmful effects of elevated levels of indoor radon gas and to increase the number of homes tested for radon. Students were asked to submit posters with one of the following radon topics depicted in the artwork:

What is radon?
Where does radon come from?
How does radon get into our homes?
Radon can cause lung cancer.
Test your home for radon

A total of 195 New Jersey students participated, and first, second, and third place winners were selected. Recognition was also given to the school with the most entries. Due to the outstanding quality of the entries, nine honorable mention winners were also selected.

Sharon Kim, a student at Lewis F. Cole Middle School in Fort Lee, won first place. Second place winner was Michael Boldt from Howell Middle School South in Howell with the school also winning for the most entries submitted category, and third place was Helania Anderson from J.P. Cleary Middle School in Minotola. The National Poster Contest was sponsored by the National Safety Council in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. New Jersey winners qualified for entry in the national contest to compete for an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. where the winning national poster will be unveiled at an awards ceremony. The winning poster will also be reproduced into a nationally distributed poster.