The gemological institute of america was founded by a guy named robert shipley. To become a certified gemologist, you can do it for about 20 grant on campus in carlsbad or a little bit less if you study up at home. The scaries test of all time to get your degree is called the 20 stone. It's really a whatever they've given you in your tests, they'll give you one of those. And then you have to identify what it is. But you can't get anything wrong. So if you get one little, tiny thing wrong, then you fail. i actually failed my first one from one answer. It was a synthetic emerald versus