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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Nov 062015Fairchild Challenge: Challenge One Winners Announced!
The Fairchild Challenge is now in full swing! Thank you to the many schools that submitted an entry for Challenge #1. We hope you had as much fun reflecting and writing as we did reading your work. All of the judges agreed that...
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Oct 202015Welcome Sahar Arbab, High School Program Coordinator!
We are very pleased to welcome the newest member of the Science Education and Research team, Sahar Arbab! Sahar is the High School Program Coordinator at Phipps. In this role, she coordinates the Fairchild Challenge and the...
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Oct 142015The Fairchild Challenge at Phipps: Challenge #1
October is the season for warm colors, sweaters, pumpkins, apple picking, and of course we can't forget - the beginning of the Fairchild Challenge! Take a breath of fresh air and observe the beautiful, autumn colors for your...
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Feb 042015Fairchild Challenge: Plants and Pollinators
Pollination is a magical process. A plant, through seemingly no will of its own and often with the help of a whole host of unwitting accomplices, is able to orchestrate the ritual by which its pollen is mixed and spread around...
