GRADES Pre-K to 5 | 2025-2026
Challenge 3B (2nd – 3rd Grade): Building Blooms
YOUR CHALLENGE:
It’s time to become an Eco-Designer! Imagine a special flower – not just any flower that you see in your backyard, but one uniquely made to make your community better. Your challenge is to design a brand-new flower that helps bring nature right into our busy city spaces. Choose a trait of real flowers, like attracting bees and butterflies, cleaning the air, or making yummy fruits, and take it to the extreme.
Invent a flowering plant from your imagination and draw what it looks like. In your drawing mark its basic parts including its stem, roots, leaves, and flowers. Let your creativity blossom and give your flower a special name that reflects its unique characteristics. Also, in 25-50 words, describe what makes your plant special like its size, shape, color, scent, or other properties.
✓ Submission Requirements: | |
Original hand-drawn artwork by students in colored pencil, crayon, pens, markers only; no computer-generated design. Drawings must be no larger than 8.5” by 11”. Basic plant parts including the stem, roots, leaves, and flowers must be marked and identified. | |
Written description on separate sheet of paper must include the plant’s name and description of what makes the flowering plant special in a maximum of 25-50 words. | |
The drawing AND written description must include the student’s first name and last initial, student grade level, teacher’s name, and school name ON THE BACK OF THE PAPER. | |
Digital Entry Form (for school and student information only). Electronic uploads of drawing and written descriptions will not be reviewed. | |
Physically submit all drawings and written descriptions delivered in person or mailed to Fairchild Challenge via certified mail to 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, Florida 33156, ATTN: Education Department. Hand deliver drawings ANY day of the week 10a-5p at the Visitor Center. | |
2 submissions max per school. |
CHALLENGE RESOURCES:
Important Dates
Submissions Due:
Friday, February 20, 2026 by 5:00pm
Point Breakdown | |
Participants per submission | Individual |
Maximum number of points per mission | 75 |
Number of submissions per grade level per school | 2 |
Evaluation Criteria
COMING SOON
Fairchild City in a Garden Standards
Ecological Integration
Cultural Enrichment