May 16th, 2019Tionna Thompson, a 15-year-old SAY Play member born in Nebraska but raised in Detroit, was asked to meet with Co-Executive Director Dana Davidson in the small staff conference room at the center. Her friends were asked to join her. Waiting for her on the other end of a FaceTime call was Meredith Morris, Global Education Continue Reading
December 3rd, 2018Dr. Kalisha McLendon, DDS, treated our students to a special presentation about dental health. A practicing dentist in Detroit and graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland – Baltimore, Dr. McLendon discussed her path to dentistry from Detroit public schools to a University of Michigan residency. Her presentative include an interactive Continue Reading
October 11th, 2018Position Profile Executive Director of the SAY Detroit Play Center The SAY Detroit Play Center is a premier training center for young people in Detroit to improve their community, starting with themselves. Located on 14 acres at Lipke Park on the northeast side of Detroit, the Play Center is the brainchild of best-selling author Mitch Continue Reading
September 25th, 2018Please join us in congratulation Davion Jackson, 17, who is the recipient of theErnest Lofton Junior Goodfellow of the Year Award, presented by the Detroit Goodfellows at this morning’s 29th Annual Tribute Breakfast. Held at the Cobo Center, the event honored City of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan with the Edward H. McNamara Goodfellow of the Year Award Continue Reading
September 22nd, 2018With a grant from the Detroit Health Department, The Detroit Pistons gymnasium at the SAY Detroit Play Center played host to a father-son basketball tournament on September 15th. Sponsored by We RUN Tings, the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority, the Wayne County Fatherhood Initiative, and Family Assistance for Renaissance Men, Dad-And-Me 3-ON-3 celebrated dads and dad-figures Continue Reading
August 30th, 2018Our 14U boys’ basketball team capped off their season-winning Detroit PAL Summer League playoff championship appearance with a runner up finish on Sunday, but we also scored big this August with two special events hosted at the SAY Play Center. On August 10, Coach Dan Boylan and his brother, Joe Boylan, hosted a free basketball Continue Reading
July 25th, 2018GDYT (Grow Detroit’s Young Talent) students participating in our Summer of Success program will be taking several field trips this summer for enrichment opportunities both social and academic. On Monday, July 23, students took a day trip to the University of Toledo to tour the campus, enjoy lunch in a cafeteria, and sat in on Continue Reading
June 20th, 2018Through a grant from the National Summer Learning Association, S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center’s Summer of Success program was one of twenty programs selected by the Youth Development Resource Center for a Summer Learning Program Quality Improvement pilot project. The Summer Learning Program Quality Intervention is a national best-practice model designed to help summer programs reach Continue Reading
May 31st, 2018On May 19th, S.A.Y. Play hosted its second annual Warriors Revenge, a FIRST Lego League robotics invitational. The invitational is a friendly competition in celebration of the end of the recent FLL qualifying season, and in preparation for the coming season that begins in the fall. In two challenge rounds, thirteen teams from Detroit designed and Continue Reading
February 19th, 2018There might have been some patches of snow on the ground, but SAY Play is weeks into the spring semester as we launched our first ever Family Fun Day. The day’s events included a spelling bee, a visit from not one but TWO Little Caesars’ Love Kitchen trucks, a special broadcast of The Mitch Albom Continue Reading