Where will Convention Be?
AYA's annual international convention is held in the summer, somewhere in North America. The convention is organized and run entirely by
volunteers led by a volunteer convention chair. AYA's volunteer vice president is responsible for identifying convention venues and
recruiting the convention chair.AYA leaders make every effort to rotate the location from east to west and back in a four-year cycle—east, central, west, central, and so on—to ensure as many AYA members as possible can attend. But it is difficult to find a venue with an airport and a convention hotel suitable to our needs. And then somebody must be found to act as volunteer convention chair.
So as to be fair to the membership, the AYA Board defined in 1998 which states go in which region for the cycle, as shown in the image above. The one exception is Wyoming which can be either West or Central as needed to help with the rotation. Canada is divided in to East, Prairie, and West as listed on the back of your Star.
If you know of a great location for an AYA convention, or if you'd like to give several weeks of your life as convention chair, please contact AYA's vice president at vp@aya.org .
So, if you would like to find out more, we are having a seminar this year (listed on the Seminar page) on what it takes, and how to organize a convention.