At Plato Academy Seminole, a Monday before Earth Day looked a little different this year, and the students made it happen. On April 20, science teacher Ms. Velazquez transformed her 6th grade classroom into what she simply called “Ms. V’s Nature Classroom,” a rotating series of hands-on learning stations where elementary students spent 30 minutes...Read More
By the Plato Academy Schools Editorial Team There is a particular kind of learning that no textbook can fully replicate, the kind that happens when a student stands inside a gallery surrounded by oil paintings of the American frontier, or watches a bottlenose dolphin slip through dark green water just a few feet from the...Read More
CLEARWATER FL – For the second year running, the eighth graders at Plato Academy Clearwater did something most students their age rarely get to do: they sat across from working professionals in fields they actually chose, and asked the questions that matter. Career Day 2026 brought together a diverse roster of employers and organizations, each...Read More
When the 2026 Florida Odyssey of the Mind State Competition opened its doors in Orlando this April, Plato Academy was ready. Teams from the Clearwater, Pinellas Park, and St. Petersburg campuses had earned their spots at the state level after a competitive regional showing back in February, and they arrived prepared to prove it. Odyssey...Read More
The annual competition produced the closest match in its history, requiring double overtime to settle the score. When students from across Plato Academy’s campuses gathered at the Clearwater location on April 15, 2026, for the annual Battle of the Books Finale, nobody anticipated they were about to witness the most competitive academic showdown the school...Read More
Plato Academy St. Pete – Ms. Tonya Clay’s middle school students are not working on small ideas this year. They are in the middle of painting a large-scale mural titled “Little City” on the fence of the elementary school playground, and the project is as ambitious as it sounds. The concept started at the Salvador...Read More
At Plato Academy Clearwater, eighth-grade students took their classroom skills into the real world, pitching fully redesigned websites to a live panel of judges in a capstone event that raised the bar for what student projects can look like. There were no science fair tri-folds. No poster boards with construction paper borders. When the eighth...Read More
The 2026 Amazing Shake put students face-to-face with the real world, and they delivered. PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER, FL – There is something telling about the caution tape and construction helmets staged at the Amazing Shake stations this year. The message was clear: the leaders walking through those stations are still being built. The yellow tape...Read More
A field trip to Tampa Bay Watch is never just a field trip. For Plato Academy Palm Harbor’s fifth graders, a recent visit to the renowned marine education facility in Tierra Verde turned into a front-row seat to real environmental science, complete with one genuinely memorable moment: a squid dissection that had students leaning in...Read More
Mr. Ioannis Loverdos, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, met with Plato Academy’s board and executive leadership last Friday to examine how this Florida charter school network has become one of the most credible bridges between American students and Greece. On Friday, March 27, 2026, Plato Academy Schools welcomed a distinguished guest: Mr. Ioannis...Read More
