Anchorage student wins national radon poster contest
This poster by O’Malley Elementary School student Luciana Liu won first place in the 2022 National Radon Poster Contest.
Julie Stricker
907-474-5406
Feb. 13, 2023
An Anchorage elementary school student won first place in the 2022 National Radon Poster Contest.
Luciana Liu attends O’Malley Elementary School. Her poster depicted an evil-looking “Queen Radonia of Radon” and a radon test kit as the avenging super heroine. The national contest, open to students between 9 and 14, awards a $1,000 prize. The contest is held each year across the nation to raise awareness of radon gas, the second-leading cause of lung cancer.
Liu is the first Ӱn to win the contest, which attracts thousands of entrants every year, according to Jennifer Athey, a geologist with the Ӱ Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys.
In honor of Liu’s award, the Ӱ Radon Program will take (one per residence) through the end of February, while supplies last. is available online.
The Ӱ Radon Program is funded by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the Ӱ Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Air Quality. The University of Ӱ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the state DGGS, part of the Ӱ Department of Natural Resources, implement the grant.
For more information, contact Athey at 907-451-5028 and jennifer.athey@alaska.gov, or Art Nash at the Ӱ Radon Hotline, 1-800-478-8324.
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