Overview

 

The Fairchild Challenge is an annual, standards-based, environmental education outreach program of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. It offers a menu of separate but parallel multidisciplinary Challenge options for elementary, middle, and high schools, attracting students of diverse interests, abilities, talents and backgrounds.


Through the Challenge, students research and critically evaluate environmental topics, become more actively engaged citizens, and come to appreciate more fully the beauty and value of nature. By blending content areas to create activities, projects, and "authentic experiences" that use the environment as an integrating context for learning, the Challenge promotes science literacy, civic engagement, creative expression, and lifelong learning in students and, by extension, in their respective circles of influence.

All elementary schools earning more than 500 points, all middle schools earning more than 800 points and all high schools earning more than 1,000 points will be presented with the 2010-2011 Fairchild Challenge Award at our awards ceremonies on Tuesday, May 10, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for elementary schools, Thursday, May 19, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for high schools and Friday, May 20, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for middle schools. Additionally, students and teachers receive 4-person family passes to Fairchild, and a limited number of Fairchild Challenge T-shirts. The 16 top-scoring middle and high schools are awarded $250 to $1,000 for their environmental programs.

Fairchild Challenge 2009-2010 Annual Report

Fairchild Challenge 2009-2010 Elementary School Results
Fairchild Challenge 2009-2010 Middle School Results
Fairchild Challenge 2009-2010 High School Results

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission
can alter the course of history."  Mahatma Gandhi

General Questions: fairchildchallenge@fairchildgarden.org
last updated 08/11/2010