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 interdisciplinary Challenge options for 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 middle schools earning more than 800 points and all high schools earning more than 1000 points will be presented with the 2010 Fairchild Challenge Award at our awards ceremonies on Monday, May 17, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for middle schools and Tuesday, May 18, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for high schools. Additionally, students and teachers receive 4-person family passes to Fairchild, and a limited number of Fairchild Challenge T-shirts or drawstring backpacks. The 16 top-scoring middle and high schools are awarded $250 to $1,000 for their environmental programs.

Fairchild Challenge 2008-2009 Annual Report (MS and HS)

Fairchild Challenge 2008-2009 Annual Report (Elementary pilot)

 

Fairchild Challenge 2008 - 2009 Middle School Results

  Fairchild Challenge 2008 - 2009 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 05/15/2009