PLATO Weekly Update

November 29, 2022

CURRICULUM

WINTER COURSES

· Tuesday, December 13: The Winter Course Schedule will be posted to the Courses Page and registration will open.

· Week of January 9: Most Winter Courses will begin.

SPECIAL EVENTS

BREAKFAST GATHERING
Next Week! Second Friday, December 9 at 9:30am, join fellow PLATO members and guests for breakfast and conversation at at Lakeside Street Coffee House on Madison's near south side in the Bay Creek neighborhood. Seating is on both the main floor and downstairs levels. You will need to climb nine steps in order to be seated on the downstairs level. RSVP and learn more here.

LECTURES
Check out archived PLATO Lectures that always inform and sometimes even entertain!

A VERY SPECIAL EVENT
Our November 17 trip to American Player's Theater proved a delightful experience. Able Trek, our hired coach, served us ably. Our jaunt through the countryside included a stop at the cozy Old Feed Mill in Mazomanie which very hospitably served us a sandwich buffet with vegetarian chili and cookies. The play, Stones in his Pockets, lived up to its rave reviews with outstanding acting by two of APT's core company. All in all a very good day. If you would like to be involved in bringing trips like these into fruition in 2023, please reach out to Carla Di Iorio: carlad@tds.net.

EDUCATION FUND UPDATE

PLEASE CONSIDER including PLATO's Education Fund in your year-end 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).