Juniors Year in Rocks Contest
Deadline: August 30, 2024
To all SFMS Juniors!
Help us update the banner on the Officers Contact Lists page! The page needs a photo with 2025 spelled out in rocks, minerals, fossils, crystals, sand, lapidary items, etc.
Put together your design for the year and submit a photograph plus description to your club. Then your club can submit the entries to the SFMS Youth Resources Committee.
SFMS judges will blind judge the entries and the winning entry will be announced at the annual meeting. Plus, it will be displayed all year on the Officers Contact Lists page!
All other entries will be displayed in a carousel gallery on this page.
Click here for the scoring criteria to see what judges will be looking for.
Have fun!!!
Rules
Each submission must be from an SFMS club Junior Member (1st thru 12th grade).
Each submission must be made by an individual, not a group effort.
Maximum of two entries per club submitted to the SFMS Youth Resources Committee (see the addresses below).
The photo must show 2025 clearly.
The photo must be at least 1200 pixels across.
If taken with a cell phone, hold the cell phone horizontally, not vertically so the year will have better resolution.
The year must be depicted using a variety of hobby-related materials such as rocks, minerals, fossils, sand, and lapidary items, but not drawings.
Each submission must have a description of the items used to build the numbers in the year. Please see the Officers Contact Lists page for the current year as an example.
*Clubs* (not individuals) can submit a maximum of 2 entries
to the following addresses:
The Winning Entry for 2024
Submitted by Yanni from the Georgia Mineral Society
2024 Year in Rocks
by Yanni, The Georgia Mineral Society
2: Stone mountain granite that we used for drainage around the house.
0: Calcite and fluorite gift from my sister.
2: Crinoid fossils from an Easter egg hunt at GMS.
4: Slag also from a GMS Easter egg hunt and coal from the historic western and Atlantic railroad tunnel.
All of the 2024 entries were so creative! See all of them below!
Note: Click the pictures to stop the auto display, then use arrows on the left and right to scroll through