Project Play Summit

November 2024 newsletter

Featured highlights:

  • Sports participation among girls is the highest in a decade — but it's way down for boys. Black youth now play less than Hispanic and Asian youth. Children specialize in one sport more than ever. Explore these findings, 10 Trends to Watch and more in our 2024 National State of Play report

  • Project Play Summit 2025 is coming to the Bay Area, California and the beautiful campus of U.C. Berkeley, March 24-25

  • Applications are open for the 2025 cohort of Service Learning Through Sports

  • and more…

Project Play Summit 2024 Recap: Children’s rights, youth sports policy take center stage

BALTIMORE, Maryland – Maryland became the first state to sign the Children’s Bill of Rights in Sports after Governor Wes Moore endorsed a framework that all youth should have the opportunity to develop as people through sports.

“Some of my earliest memories are on a basketball court in the Bronx, where it was a place of escape,” Moore said May 15 at the Project Play Summit, the Aspen Institute’s annual youth sports conference. “It was a place where you felt safe. It was a place where you met some of your lifelong friends. It was a place where you learned all the beautiful things you can learn from team sports – how to win properly, how to lose properly, the importance of being able to trust the people to your left and right and make sure you’re practicing so they can trust you back.”