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The Atlantic Youth Bowling Council Program was started in August of 1992, when the New Brunswick Bowling Proprietor’s Association decided to design a Youth Bowling program specifically for Candlepin Bowling. In the first year, only bowlers from New Brunswick were involved along with four test sites in the US. The following year, bowlers from Nova Scotia joined the program. Currently, membership stands at approximately 1700 bowlers with centres in both NB and NS. The membership has seen numbers of over five thousand youth bowlers and hopes to see numbers like these again as changes are made to meet the current market and youth population.

The Atlantic Youth Bowling Council Inc. is a non-profit organization that administers the AYB Program. It is administered by an elected board made up of member centre representatives from both provinces who meet regularly to ensure that the program meets the needs and goals of its youth members. Day to day management of the AYBC is handled by an Executive Director who reports directly to the Board. Participation in the AYBC program is simply: each child pays an annual membership fee plus weekly fees that each centre charges for bowling. Throughout the year, each member in their different age divisions, strives to earn high score crests for a single, double or triple string that are set by the centre's co-ordinator. To encourage sportsmanship and fun, the program offers a number of fun tournaments that each centre may host throughout the season for which bowlers can earn crests. There is also a competitive component, the "Lanes to Success", in which bowlers qualify at the House level and may proceed onto competition at the Zone, Provincial and National level.

The sport of bowling has a vast number of benefits for all children, no matter their physical or mental abilities. It is an extremely inexpensive sport with no equipment to purchase - just a weekly fee. The sport assists the physical development of the bowlers by promoting hand and eye co-ordination and use of the majority of the body's muscles in a controlled manner thus strengthening the muscles with practically no risk of injury. Sportmanship, social skills and teamwork are everyday aspects of the youth bowling program. Bowling also assists with educational development as bowlers have to be able to read and write, add and subtract, multiply and divide as part of the process of keeping score.

The AYB Program encourages in its members, personal achievements, physical fitness, sportsmanship, healthy competition and good citizenship. It is a sport that can be played individually, with a family, with a friend, or in competition with others, making bowling the number one participation sport in Canada. It is the world's number one indoor sport and also the number one social sport in Canada, as all can participate.

The AYBC strives to continually improve itself and meet the needs of its member bowlers and centres. The creation of a website, improved communication, a newsletter, and yearly planning meetings with members are but a few of the methods employed to achieve this goal.