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Share with Youth: Power to Explore Student Essay Challenge 2025

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Closing date for entries: January 31, 2025, 11:59 pm ET

In this essay challenge, K–12 students are invited to plan a mission that uses Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) to a dark, dusty, or far away moon in our solar system.

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Resource: DAWN Network Watch

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This Network Watch presents drug street names that appeared in DAWN (Drug Reference Vocabulary) data for the first time from January 2023 to August 2024. Understanding drug slang improves communication and awareness, helps identify substance abuse, and can avoid misunderstandings of the substances involved in street drugs.

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Resource: HEADS UP to Health Care Providers

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This online training for health care providers includes evidence-based recommendations on mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) diagnosis and management.

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Teen motor vehicle crashes can be prevented, and statistics indicate that annual teen fatal crashes have decreased...

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The CICC was created to foster greater coordination and transparency on child policy across federal agencies and examine an array of cross-cutting…
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Adolescence is an important time for promoting health and preventing disease.

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  • Service Learning

More than half of teenagers report participating in youth volunteer work, form of civic engagement.

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