Belle Isle will be packed with more than swimmers, joggers, bike riders, picnickers and hikers when nearly 40,000 students, 1,600 volunteers and 360 community partners head to the island for Metro Detroit Youth Day. The 36th annual youth-centric event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 11 on Belle Isle’s athletic […]
More than 35,000 kids of varied ages, races, grades and abilities played games and learned about college options at the 36th annual Metro Detroit Youth Day held today at Belle Isle on Detroit’s waterfront. As always, founder Ed Deeb was there to cheer kids on and give them the confidence they need to carry them through […]
For more than 25 years, the Metro Detroit Youth Day has made sure that area students have access to scholarships to help them pay for college. It’s an impressive record for MDYD, founder and chairman Ed Deeb and those deserving students. Since 1991, MDYD has awarded more than 1,200 scholarships to deserving students who submitted […]