2025 SCFMS Website Contest
Entry Deadline: September 30, 2025. That means your entry completed Entry Form and a Score Sheet with only the header information filled in must be in my inbox (don.shurtz@gmail.com) by midnight, September 30, 2025.
Don't forget to review the Contest Guidelines
The contest is more than just winning. The primary purpose of the Website Contest is to improve your website so that it more meaningful to web site visitors and club members. Each Web Master that enters will receive constructive comments from judges outside the SCFMS about the strengths and areas of your web site that could be improved. Most of the areas that need improvement are easily implemented.
2025 Website Contest Forms
The Entry Forms for the 2025 Contest are available online. You fill in your entry form on the AFMS Website Contest Page. It is easy to enter. Please give it some consideration.
Older forms from 2022 below for reference.
2024 Web Site Contest Results
From the January-February 2025 Newsletter
Starting with the 2024 SCFMS Website Contest, we moved to a fixed schedule. We will no longer be forced into a rushed judging situation caused by an early AFMS or SCFMS Convention. At times in previous years, we had to establish an entry deadline early in the year (January or February), or in a few instances, late in the preceding year (December or even November). The move to a fixed schedule was not just for the SCFMS â all of the Regional Federations and the AFMS moved to the same fixed schedule. For the SCFMS, the contest entry deadline will be in late September of each year. Judging will no longer be a rushed situation â Regional Federations (including the SCFMS) will be in October to mid-November, and the AFMS judging will be from mid-November to mid-December. This resulted in no website contest awards at any of the Regional Federation and AFMS Conventions. The winners of the SCFMS Website Contest will be announced in the January-February Newsletter. The plaque for the 2024 contest winner will be awarded at the 2025 SCFMS Convention. Similarly, the 2024 AFMS Website Contest winner will be announced in the first 2025 AFMS newsletter (the February 2025 AFMS newsletter edition) and the AFSM Contest Winner will receive her/his plaque at the 2025 AFMS Convention.
Our 2024 Website Contest Winner is the Paleontological Society of Austin (PSoA), Randy Whited. His website was also entered into the AFMS Website Contest (the top two winners from each Regional Federation are automatically entered into the AFMS Website Contest). We only had one entry in the SCFMS Website Contest, but it was a very good entry. I am anxiously waiting to see how the PSoA website did in the AFMS competition.
Don Schurtz
SCFMS Website Contest Committee Chair