Goals and Purposes
The goals and purposes of the Association of Earth Science Clubs of Greater Kansas City are educational and scientific in nature.
They are: to promote interest in geology and lapidary arts; to
encourage the collecting and display of rocks, gems and minerals;
to encourage field trips of a geological, mineralogical or lapidary
nature; and to encourage greater public interest and education in
gems and minerals.
The area associate clubs make donations to the Midwest
Federation and the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies
Scholarship Fund. The Association has established its own scholarship fund and presents scholarships each semester to several
college students. Our aim is to help deserving students further their
education in the earth sciences.
Various associate club members are available to
present programs and lectures with slides to schools, youth groups and
other clubs. Many area teachers have been given rock and mineral
specimen collections with display cases for study and enjoyment at
their schools.
The Association of Earth Science Clubs of Greater Kansas City members would like to thank you for attending our show. You have contributed to the achievement of our goals.
Show Location
We changed the location of the show in March
2008. We have returned to the MCC-Business
& Technology Campus Exhibit Hall at 1775 Universal
Avenue in Kansas City, MO. This is the location
of the old KC Market Center where we had
held our shows for many years prior to our
move to the KCI Expo Center. Metropolitan
Community Colleges bought the old Market
Center and renovated it top to bottom and
we're making the move closer to the center
of the City.
As always there was a wide variety of retail dealers selling a wonderful assortment of rocks and minerals, fossils, lapidary
work, jewelry and gemstones, beads and beading supplies, lapidary equipment and supplies...the
list is just too long to cover completely!
A wholesale
area will be in operation where
those with valid tax ID's in the gem, mineral,
beading, and jewelry trades can purchase
products and supplies.
This show is eagerly anticipated by thousands of
area residents as one of the premier shows
in the mid-west. Visitors will see special
displays of rocks and minerals,
lapidary work of all kinds, live demonstrations of lapidary, bead making and jewelry fabrication techniques. Static displays include
fossils and fossil identification, club-member displays, and a special area for children.
We also have a large non-retail Swap Area and special displays for schools. Friday is the day that
educators
and youth leaders bring their students
and youth groups on field trips. Each
day there will be lectures and slide presentations that visitors can attend.
Valuable door prizes will be given away,all three day, to
lucky show visitors and on Saturday night, after the show closes, a public auction of donated items from our retail and wholesale
dealers will be held. On Sunday several silent auctions will be held during the show. All auction proceeds go to the Association's Scholarship Fund. Several scholarship recipients benefit from the proceeds of this year's show auctions.
