Fairchild Garden's Fairchild Challenge Program Wins 2015 Gold Medal From Miami Today Newspaper

By: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
 
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - May 8, 2015 - PRLog -- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants, has received a Gold Medal award from Miami Today newspaper in recognition of its award-winning Fairchild Challenge educational program, the successful interdisciplinary STEM education competition that now reaches 125,000 students in South Florida at more than 273 schools from Pre-K to 12th grade.

“This award is a testament to the dedicated teachers who are grooming children to be future scientists and educating them daily about conservation, science and the environment through The Fairchild Challenge’s unique educational competitions,” said Amy Padolf, Director of Education, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. The award was presented at Miami Today’s Gold Medal Awards dinner on April 30, 2015.

In June 2014, the Fairchild Challenge program received the Program Excellence Award from the American Public Gardens Association (APGA), an award recognizing Fairchild’s innovative spirit in the development of new programs and for pioneering one or more of the disciplines appropriate to public horticultural institutions.

According to the APGA, The Fairchild Challenge is exemplary of great public garden programming.  Now celebrating its 13th year anniversary, The Fairchild Challenge was honored for its notable success generating student engagement and enthusiasm for the environment. The Fairchild Challenge was hailed as an outstanding example of what an impactful, scalable environmental science education program can be and for the model it is for garden educators everywhere. It has been adopted by dozens of satellite partner gardens and organizations throughout the U.S. in Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Utah; and in Latin America in Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

The Fairchild Challenge includes a cross-curriculum science initiative and comprehensive environmental science training pipeline, which contains the nationwide STEM directive - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Extending from early childhood through advanced graduate education, its goals are aimed at recruiting future science leaders and training a new generation of professionals in environmental science.

About Miami Today Newspaper
Now in its 31st year, Miami Today has become the newspaper for Miami-Dade County’s business establishment and the trusted voice and source for business information locally. Miami Today is the largest circulated mainstream publication after our daily paper. An award winning publication, Miami Today has the finger on the pulse of the community, reporting first on topics readers cannot find anywhere else.

About Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Established in 1938 and comprising 85 acres in Coral Gables, Fla., Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants. The world-renowned plant collections feature palms, cycads, orchids, tropical fruit trees and more. Fairchild has the largest education program of any metropolitan area, reaching more than 125,000 schoolchildren each year with award-winning environmental programs like The Fairchild Challenge, Explorer and Discovery Programs. Special events include Chocolate, Mango, Orchid and Edible Garden Festivals in addition to an annual art exhibition, concerts, plant sales and more. Fairchild is located at 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, FL 33156. For more information, call 305-667-1651 or visit www.fairchildgarden.org. Follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fairchild-Tropical-Botanic...), Twitter (https://twitter.com/fairchildgarden), Instagram (http://instagram.com/fairchildgarden) and Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/fairchildgarden/).

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