Past recipients of the Las Cumbres Award
2022: Billy Hix, Von Braun Astronomical Society
2019: Lynn Powers, President of the Southwest Montana Astronomical Society
2018: Don Ficken, St. Louis Astronomical Society.
2017: Paul Winalski, New Hampshire Astronomical Society, Merrimack, New Hampshire
2016: Gena Crook, Von Braun Astronomical Society (VBAS), Huntsville, Alabama
No awardee in 2015
2014: Dan Kaminsky, Hagerstown, Maryland
2013: Chuck Bueter, South Bend, Indiana
2012: Chuck McPartlin, Santa Barbara, California
2011: Lonnie Puterbaugh, Brentwood, Tennesee
2010: Wayne “Skip” Bird, Westminster Astronomical Society, Maryland
2009: Carol Lee Lutsinger, Brownsville, Texas
2008: Gary Fujihara, University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
2007: Richard J. Smith, Sparks, Nevada
2006: Asghar Kabiri, Sa’adat-shahr, Iran
2005: Mary Lou Whitehorne, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2004: Big Bang Band Traveling Star Show (Terry Dye, Matt Gardner, Angelo Parisi, Northern California
2003: Mario Motta, Lynnfield, Massachusetts
2002: Dean Ketelsen, Tucson, Arizona
2001: Joseph R. Caruso, Harvard, Massachusetts