Writing Contest

WRITING CONTEST

The Lake Elsinore Gem and Mineral Society holds an annual writing contest. Anyone under the age of 18 is eligible. You do not have to be a member of LEGMS or even a rockhound to enter. Entries must be post marked by the last mail day in March.

Forms are now available for the 2004 Contest.

Awards are given for the top three entries in each of two age categories. The winners receive a $50 US Savings Bond and a custom trophy made from a mineral specimen. All entrants are invited to the Awards Picnic in June. Also, the top 8 to 10 articles (depending on the collective length of the articles) are entered into another contest sponsored by the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Winners in this contest are sent to a national competition.

	The topic must be somehow related to rocks, minerals, fossils, geology, lapidary, rock hounding or jewelry making. It can be an informative article or a funny story. It should be somehow informative about the subject if it is to do well at the CFMS and AFMS levels.
	It must be a never before published original article written by the child who enters it. School assignments are OK.
	The article is limited to one typed page. It can be shorter but no longer. Fifth graders and younger may hand write their papers. It takes several hand written pages to make one typed page.
	Information sources used in the article should be properly referenced (but do not have to be included in the one page limitation).
	Illustrations are encouraged but they must not violate the copyrights of others. The articles will be published in black and white. Keep this in mind.

For a complete set of Official Rules and an entry form e-mail knotredeagle@jfnet.com Address your mail request to Writing Contest, 32750 Brechtel St, Lake Elsinore, CA 92530.