Meet Our Treasurer, Rosie Ferguson!

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Rosie lives in West Jordan, UT with her husband, David, and their five kids, and they’ve been a homeschooling family since 1997 when their oldest child was three. Their homeschool methods and curricula have varied over the years, but their emphases have always been on civics, leadership education, and following their children’s interests.

 

During 2007-2008, the Ferguson family spent a year traveling around the United States,
learning about the history, science, and people of this great country. Some of their favorites include the Redwoods; St. Augustine, FL; Atlantis Space Shuttle launch; Wright Brothers monument; Washington, D.C.; and fireworks over Lake Erie, as well as the many friends they made around the United States.

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Freedom Bowl 2012!

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Freedom Bowl last week was a great success! Everyone did very well and learned a lot about our nation’s founding.  It was impressive to see how knowledgeable the youth were on the American Revolution and The Constitution.  We had six junior teams and three senior teams compete for a total of 36 youth! We hope to see our numbers continue to grow as they have the last few years.  The pictures below are the two first place teams in the junior and senior divisions. 

First Place Senior Team

 

 First Place Junior Team

 

 

 

Meet Our YASA Liaison, Beverli Haroldson!

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Note: We’d like to introduce you to our volunteer Executive Board. Watch for bio’s of them in the coming week.

Beverli loves life and learning! She is the mother of two and has been home educating for eight years. She a songwriter, composer, piano teacher, aspiring author, Shakespeare mentor, CERT team member, taekwondo black belt, cancer survivor, and nature lover. She served a mission for her church in Belgium, where she learned to speak Dutch and gained an appreciation for people of many different cultures and backgrounds. She earned a BA in Linguistics and a graduate certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language from BYU.

“The clubs of AYLI have played an important role in the education of my children, and it has been a pleasure to serve as YASA Liaison for the past two and a half years.”

Holiday Shopping

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Holiday shopping online is fun and very useful. AYLI is asking you to donate a few moment of your time and go to the AYLI home page and click on the Amazon link. By going through this link you are allowing Amazon to give AYLI a percentage of your purchase. By doing this it will not cost you anything but a few moments of your time.

Thank you for your help.

AYLI

Family Dance Postponed

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We got the unfortunate news that The Apollo Dance Club has had to shut it’s doors a week shy of our Family Dance Fundraiser. Another casualty of the current economy I’m sure. It’s too short of notice to find another venue for next week, so we have decided to postpone until further notice. Sorry for any inconvenience. We’ll let you know when we’ve found an alternate location.

AYLI Connect

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There is an amazing feature on our new web site that I am excited to tell you about. It’s called AYLI Connect. If you look to your right on the main page you will see an area that allows you to “subscribe” to AYLI. Not only will this allow you to keep updated with what is going on in our organization, but it will allow you to easily find clubs in your area as well as other like-minded families.

Our vision for AYLI is not only to provide outstanding clubs and events for our youth, but it’s also about building community. We want our AYLI members to connect in order to support, encourage, learn from and inspire each other. So take a minute right now to subscribe, and start connecting today!

Announcing The New AYLI Site

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Our new web site has arrived! Take a minute to tour around and get familiar with our new digs. This site was developed as the first step in launching AYLI as a national organization. You will notice that there is a National Site and a site dedicated to Utah. As new AYLI chapters register in other states, their state sites will become active. If you are interested in starting AYLI clubs in your area, please email us at aylipresident@gmail.com.

We are also excited to unveil our new logo! We wanted a logo that symbolized all our clubs, events and AYLI mission. Our tree with blue leaves represents the growth, strength, creativity and wisdom that we hope all the youth and club leaders that we serve experience in AYLI clubs and events.

A huge thank you to the very talented Steve Smith who designed and built our new site! It has many exciting features that we will highlight in future blog posts.