News about ASIYP & its members
Effective 8/1/07-ASIYP's mailing address is ASIYP, Inc., 507 Oak Street, North Aurora, IL 60542
ASIYP had its beginnings in late 1987. There was a
need for new youth programs and activities within the American Saddlebred Horse
Association and it’s Charter Clubs throughout the country.
Melinda and Carleton Huntoon developed the program
from materials they had developed for their lesson program, which included
classes for a local university. They presented their plans to ASHA, which
donated the initial funding for the program. ASIYP is still operated by the
Huntoons, in cooperation with ASHA. It is mostly self-supported. It holds a
501c(3) charitable not-for-profit status with IRS.
The
educational levels were started with the original funding and the fees for the
levels cover the costs of printing and purchasing the educational materials and
the postage costs.
The badge program was started with donations from
private individuals. It costs about three hundred dollars to develop a new
badge. Once a badge is created and available to the youth, the charge for
ordering the badge you want covers the eventual re-order costs.
The art, essay and related competitions conducted periodically by ASIYP are also made available by donations, which cover the cost of promotion, printing and awards.
For information on donating to the various projects
of ASIYP, please return to our home
page and contact us by e-mail.
If you have
enrolled in ASIYP and have not yet completed your test, what better time to work
on it than now. We do not limit the time you have to complete a level, so if
you have been procrastinating, join the fun, complete and return your test
pages so that you can receive your Certificate.
Don’t know where you put your test pages? You can obtain
new ones - just e-mail us for details.
If you are not yet enrolled in an ASIYP Level, click
on the ‘application’ link at the bottom of this page to be able to print a form
that you can send to ASIYP my mail. We are not yet able to accept enrollments
electronically.
ASIYP now has nine Achievement Badges available. They
are:
|
Colors and Markings |
Safety |
|
Grooming |
Showmanship in Hand |
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Horse History |
Stable Management |
|
Horsemanship |
Tack |
|
Junior Judging |
|
Visit our special programs page to
learn more about the ASIYP badges.
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