The Fairchild Challenge® is our award-winning, interdisciplinary, science education competition designed to engage students of diverse interests, abilities, talents and backgrounds to explore the natural world.

The program has been recognized as a benchmark for exceptional STEM education and for empowering PreK – 12th grade students to become the next generation of scientists, researchers, educated voters, policy makers, and environmentally-minded citizens.

Your support of The Fairchild Challenge enables Fairchild, the only botanic garden in the world, to deliver a botany-focused curriculum for K-12 students.

Learn more about the program, visit  Fairchild Challenge.

To support The Fairchild Challenge and the hundreds of thousands of students who participate in this program annually, please consider a gift now. If you'd like to learn how you can make a transformational contribution, please contact education director Amy Padolf at [email protected].