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Hype founder awards Dearborn schools $90,000 for robotics and $250,000 for elementary athletics
Summary
At the Feb. 10 Dearborn City School District meeting, Ali Saeed of Hype presented two donations: $90,000 for elementary robotics teams and $250,000 to launch districtwide elementary athletics (boys and girls basketball, soccer and cross country). Board members asked about participation caps, program staffing and whether the funding is renewable.
Ali Saeed, founder and CEO of Hype, presented two donations totaling $340,000 to the Dearborn City School District at the Feb. 10 board meeting, the district said.
The larger check, $250,000, is designated to establish elementary athletics programs that will include boys and girls basketball, soccer in spring and a fall cross-country program, Saeed said. A separate $90,000 gift will fund elementary robotics teams at participating schools.
The donations are intended to expand organized sports and robotics access for elementary students, with an emphasis on increasing participation from East Dearborn ZIP codes that Saeed said have been underrepresented in prior Hype programs. "We're able to launch a really cool, elementary athletics program," Saeed told the board, and said…
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