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​​​Have Your Kids Enter the 2023 HHS Earth Day Kids’ Poster Contest!​​

Do you have kids in your family that like to draw? Are they interested in learning about the environment or sharing what they know about the environment with others? If so, have them enter the 2023 HHS Earth Day Kids' Poster Contest! This year's theme is: Invest In Our Planet. How do you commit or invest your time, energy and knowledge to benefit the health of our planet? Examples may include cleaning up pollution in your community, using sustainable or green products, encouraging solar energy or recycling waste. Use your creativity to design a poster that demonstrates how you have invested in our planet. Posters are encouraged to use real, three-dimensional recycled or repurposed objects! Additionally, extra consideration will be given to posters that incorporate the HHS mission.

This poster contest is open to all children in kindergarten through 12^th grade that have a family member who is an employee or contractor with HHS or any HHS OpDiv. A family member can be a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or guardian. Submissions will be divided into 4 age groups and judged against the other submissions from the same OpDiv. Once the OpDiv winners are chosen for each age group, these posters will compete against the other OpDiv winners to be crowned first place for all of HHS in their respective age group. The winners from the 2022 Poster Contest are shown below.

​​All poster submissions must be submitted by February 17, 2023. NIH submissions should be emailed to the greenposter@mail.nih.gov account with a completed release form. Additional information on the submission process can be found by clicking here​. Any questions about the Poster Contest can be sent to greenposter@mail.nih.gov.

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​2022 NIH Green Labs Program Recap ​ ​​The 2022 NIH Green Labs Program concluded on November 30, 2022. This was the 5th year of the Green Labs Program (GLP), which began in 2018. A total of 132 applications were received from 20 ICOs for the 2022 GLP. LEARN MORE

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Did you know? The Green Labs Program has been adapted to fit special lab situations, like the Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx). Green Labs Program variants for specific NIH campuses are possible in future years too! To learn more about sustainability at the NIH, please visit the NEMS Training webpage to view a short (20 minute) NIH environmental awareness training video.