PLATO Weekly Update

 November 22, 2022

 

CURRICULUM

GIVING THANKS
We'd like to thank all the course coordinators for contributing their time and energy to fellow PLATO members during this past year. You have truly helped make PLATO a space where the love of learning never gets old!

WINTER COURSES
The Winter 2023 Course Schedule will be available on Tuesday, December 13 and registration will open the same day. Most Winter Courses will begin the week of January 9.

SPECIAL EVENTS

BREAKFAST GATHERING
This Week! Fourth Friday, November 25 at 9:30am. Join fellow PLATO members and guests for breakfast and conversation at Marquette Hotel Café in Madison's Willy Street neighborhood. RSVP and learn more.

LECTURES
Cozy up with archived PLATO Lectures on many timely topics.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
Special Events Don't Just Happen – and without your assistance, they won't happen. Your time, talents and thoughts are valuable to us on the Special Events Committee. We need more of all three and would welcome your presence with us in the new year. Contact Carla (carlad@tds.net) or Michael Di Iorio (mdiiorio1234@gmail.com) to learn more.

EDUCATION FUND UPDATE

YEAR-END GIVING – Please consider including PLATO's Education Fund in your charitable gift giving plans to help PLATO continue to provide scholarships for returning adult students at UW-Madison, as well as supporting the Odyssey Project and other local community programs.

Learn more about this year's scholarship recipients and local community programs and donate online or via snail mail by clicking on the button below. Send questions or comments to Tim Otis: tierneyotis@gmail.com.

THE AGORA
A juried literary magazine published by PLATO.

Visit The Agora Features webpage for highlights from this past season, created and curated by fellow PLATO members for your enjoyment. 

SOCIAL JUSTICE EVENTS & READINGS

Select from a range of topics and formats 

for your Autumn reading, viewing, or listening, 

curated by PLATO's Diversity Awareness Committee.

DID YOU KNOW? for November 22 – December 5, 2022

Did You Know… Two Kenyan inventors, David Gathu and Moses Kinyua, have created the world’s first bio-robotic arm operated by brain signals. In 2020, during the Covid-19 epidemic, as they were trying to develop tools to safely decontaminate surfaces in public areas, they came up with an electronic prosthetic arm-type device. When Kenyans adopted other ways to handle decontamination, Gathu and Kinyua were able to repurpose their invention as a device to help the disabled with the revolutionary feature of control via the wearer’s brain signals.

Visit the Social Justice Webpage for more about David Gathu and Moses Kinyua or past DID YOU KNOW? features.

DID YOU KNOW? – spotlighting notable contributions made by non-mainstream individuals you might not have learned or read about. Suggestions for inclusions are welcome (send to Kathy at: ksmichaelis@gmail.com).