{"id":20947,"date":"2024-01-16T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plato-philosophy.org\/?p=20947"},"modified":"2024-01-16T07:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:13:20","slug":"plato-wins-national-award-for-excellence-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/plato-wins-national-award-for-excellence-and-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"PLATO Wins National Award for Excellence and Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plato-philosophy.org\/\"><strong>Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO)<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>has been awarded the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apaonline.org\/page\/apa_pdc\">2023 Award for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs<\/a>, sponsored by the American Philosophical Association&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Philosophy Documentation Center.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award recognizes organizations that undertake new initiatives in philosophy with excellence and success.&nbsp;Announcing the award to PLATO, the American Philosophical Association wrote,&nbsp;<em>\u201cThis program is truly indicative of the innovation, excellence, and inspiration that we seek in an award winner.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plato-philosophy.org\/\"><strong>PLATO<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;is a growing national organization dedicated to nurturing young people\u2019s curiosity, critical thinking, and desire to explore big questions through philosophy and ethics programs for students, educators, and families.&nbsp;\ufeffThe organization creates opportunities&nbsp;for young people around the world to participate, in person and online, in rigorous and meaningful conversations about life\u2019s deeper questions \u2013 nurturing their curiosity and helping them to learn to communicate clearly and think well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>To sign up for PLATO\u2019s press list, please send your email address to<\/em><\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@plato-philosophy.org\">info@plato-philosophy.org<\/a>. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO)&nbsp;has been awarded the&nbsp;2023 Award for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs, sponsored by the American Philosophical Association&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Philosophy Documentation Center.&nbsp; The award recognizes organizations that undertake new initiatives in philosophy with excellence and success.&nbsp;Announcing the award to PLATO, the American Philosophical Association wrote,&nbsp;\u201cThis program is truly indicative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/plato-wins-national-award-for-excellence-and-innovation\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  PLATO Wins National Award for Excellence and Innovation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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