Rockstar and Young Writer 2020 Competition Now Open!
We’re excited to announce that this year’s Rockstar and Young Writer Competition for 2020 is now officially open for entrants! It’s a great way to spend some time while you are home-based during the Coronavirus pandemic and to enjoy putting your creation together. You could be in with a chance of winning some wonderful prizes too! Check out our tips page for some handy hints on what to do, and Download the Rockstar...
Rockstar Competition 2020 Coming Soon!
Details of this year’s Rockwatch Rockstars and Young Writers Competitions for 2020 are being finalised and will be announced very soon. With schools about to close, there will be many young people eager to fill their time with interesting and resourceful things to do so why not have a think about what you could do to enter this year? You could be one of this year’s winners!
Rocky Roadshow in Norwich on Saturday 29 February – 2020
Come along and join us at the Rocky-Fossil Roadshow in Norwich on Saturday 29 February from 11.00 till 3.00. There will be displays including local fossil finds, wire wrapping, faceting, tumble polishing, silver smithing, stacking photography, enamelling and more. Rockwatch will be there with fossil plaster casting. Suitable for all ages. Just come along! The day is being organized by the Norfolk Mineral and Lapidary...
Geologists’ Association Calendar 2020
The Geologists’ Association Calendar is available and has wonderful photographs for every month. Buy your calendar now. Just £5.00 plus postage from the Geologists’ Association website.
Calling all Poets! Enter the Hugh Miller Writing Competition
The Hugh Miller Writing competition is named after one of Scotland’s most endearing geologists. He was one of Scotland’s greatest nature writers and the competition aims to honour Hugh Miller’s legacy by inspiring new, original prose and poetry on the theme of Scotland’s geoheritage. Young people under 25 are being encouraged to enter – so Rockwatcher’s, here you go! We all know how talented...
Rockwatch at Ware Museum – August 2019
We recently had a great day at Ware Museum in Hertfordshire – a day of geological fun! We were there with Jurassic Dioramas, fossil plaster casting, puzzles and more and the sun shone! Both outside and inside and outside this wonderful little museum was a hive of activity. Thank you everyone who came along and joined us in this geology day!