Fairchild Challenge Blog
The Fairchild Challenge is a free, multidisciplinary, standards-based environmental education outreach program designed to give high school and middle school students an opportunity to creatively shine. By appealing to their innate sense of curiosity about the world around them, the Challenge invites students to investigate the thorniest environmental issues, devise imaginative and effective responses to these issues, and take action to address them. Get the latest program updates here on our blog!
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Sep 142020Phipps Conservatory Presents the 2020-2021 Fairchild Challenge!
Phipps Conservatory invites area high schools, middle schools and [new this year] elementary schools to take part in The Fairchild Challenge, a standards-based, environmental education outreach program that gives students an...
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May 2020202019 – 2020 Fairchild Challenge Awards Announced!
Congratulations to all of our 2019 – 2020 Fairchild Challenge participants! Through this year’s challenges you have created awesome sculptures from upcycled materials, painted beautiful nature scenes, collected...
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May 142020Fairchild Challenge at Phipps: Challenge #4
Thank you to all the schools who submitted entries for our fourth Fairchild Challenge of the year. For this challenge, both middle and high school students created their own games! ...
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Mar 052020Fairchild Challenge at Phipps: Challenge #3 Winners Announced!
Thank you to all the schools that submitted entries for Challenge #3 in the Phipps Fairchild Challenge! Middle school students were “Wild About Geometry” in their challenge that asked them to take a deeper look at the...
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Feb 042020Fairchild Challenge at Phipps: Video Challenge Winners Announced!
Thank you to all the schools that submitted entries for our Optional Video Challenge! In this year’s challenge, Set the Stage for Air Quality, both middle and high school students created video skits in order...
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Dec 102019Fairchild Challenge at Phipps: Challenge #2 Winners Announced!
Thank you to all the schools that submitted entries for Challenge #2, Shade Our Schools – Leaves Are Cool! This second challenge of the 2019-2020 school year was also the Fairchild Challenge Global Challenge....
