Today's Youth
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***LANA Youth “Sportsmanship Medallion.” LANA provides these award medallions to any organization across the country for presentation at ALSA shows in recognition of deserving youth for sportsmanship, behavior and attitude. This award is a unique, eye-catching Olympic style bronze colored medal on a neck ribbon. Youth work hard to receive this recognition and are proud to wear the medallion – even in public! The LANA Youth Medallion is awarded yearly at shows such as the HOBO Classic, Rogue River Gold, CAL-ILA Grass Valley, California State Fair, Western, Regionals and Grand Nationals. Any organization nation-wide may present these medallions to deserving youth. Please contact LANA.

*** LANA “Western Show Team Jacket” Program. Any youth can earn a Western Show Team jacket – a beautiful black Carhart jacket that is especially monogrammed with their name, a llama head, the phrase “Western Show Team” and LANA. Youth meeting the following criteria qualify for a jacket:

Must be a member of LANA.

Must be a member of another co-sponsoring organization.

Must be an ALSA member.

Must participate and show in the ALSA youth show program, including youth judging.

Must qualify and commit to attend the appropriate Regional or Grand Nationals.

Meet any other criteria deemed appropriate by the co-sponsoring organization.

*** Youth Across America Competition. Begun in 1986, the LANA Youth Across America program is most unique. This program encourages competition among youth worldwide in recognition of their outstanding contribution and participation in the alpaca or llama community in the following areas: Record Book projects, Art, Essays and Community Service. This award recognizes and strongly supports the true importance of youth within the alpaca and/or llama communities by honoring their many talents and achievements. This is a very serious award and the competition is quite stiff. The record book material must include records covering their alpaca or llama experience (project, training, shows, community service, story writing and more…) for a period of 12 months and include letters of recommendation. In addition, one youth from each age category is chosen as a medallist from the entries in the other areas of competition. The LANA judging committee spends countless hours thoroughly reviewing each and every entry in every category. All winners receive an award, prizes, are honored at the LANA EXPO banquet as well as recognized in the LANA newsletter and various other publications. The 2006 program received entries from as far away as the country of India.

Ayushi Deven Mehta, age 9, from Mumbai, India had never seen a llama but became so interested in them after seeing the contest on the Internet that she submitted the following entry in the art category.

Ayushi’s family sent an email upon hearing she had actually won the gold medal in the art division:

Dear Madam,
Kindly accept our sincere thanks for choosing the Art work.

We are very glad & excited for her, winning the Gold medal and happy that you have considered her hard work, Further kindly excuse us for the delayed reply, as we had been on hoilday's. Moreover, Just FYI, she had put lots of efforts by reading Books and viewing several pictures of LLamas before decidng on the art work. We are happy that her hard work has paid,

We cam to know about the competition thru the Net and she loves pets and animals a lot. Once again thank you very much and look forward to keep in touch with your kindself.

Thanks / Regard's
Ayushi Mehta & Family.

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