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Teen and Youth Academies give middle and high school students an inside look at the FBI - The FBI Honors Interns Program is open to college and graduate school students
- At any age, you can learn more about working for the FBI and how making good choices can ensure all career doors stay open to you
Understand the types of crimes the FBI investigatesStaying Safe Online and in Your Neighborhood
Safe Online Surfing (SOS) Internet Challenge
The FBI Safe Online Surfing (SOS) Internet Challenge is a free, educational program for children that teaches cyber safety and helps them become better digital citizens in a fun and engaging way.
Stop Sextortion
The FBI’s Stop Sextortion campaign seeks to inform kids and caregivers about this growing crime involving young people who are coerced into creating explicit content by an adult online.
Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict
In an effort to combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse, the FBI and DEA have released "Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict," a documentary aimed at educating students and young adults about the dangers of addiction.
Hoax Threats are Crimes
Making a hoax threat against a school or other public place is a serious federal crime that can land you in prison and affect the rest of your life.
Famous Cases and Criminals
Working on a school project or just want to learn about some of our most famous investigations?
Alcatraz Escape
The fate of three men—Frank Morris, John Anglin, and his brother Clarence Anglin—who made a daring escape from an isolated island prison in 1962 remains a mystery to this day.
Pan Am 103 Bombing
Thirty-three years after the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the FBI and its partners are still actively seeking justice for the 270 victims and their families.
Lindbergh Kidnapping
When the son of the famed aviator was kidnapped in 1932, the FBI and its new crime laboratory played a key supporting role.
Unabomber
A lone bomber terrorized the nation for nearly 20 years, planting bombs that killed three Americans and injured many more before his capture in 1996.
Morris Worm
In 1988, a graduate student unleashed the first major attack on the Internet and became the first person convicted of a new type of crime.
Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone rose to infamy as a gangster in Chicago during the 1920s and early 1930s.
Oklahoma City Bombing
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 was the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in U.S. history, resulting in the deaths of 168 people.
Emmett Till
The tragic 1955 murder of an African-American teenager in Mississippi shocks the nation.
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