Past recipients
Thomas J. Brennan Award
2018: Peter Detterline, Planetarium Director and high school astronomy teacher for the Boyertown Area School District in Boyertown, Pennsylvania
2017: Sue Ann Heatherly, West Virginia Senior Education Office of the Green Bank Observatory (formerly the National Radio Astronomy Observatory) in Green Bank, West Virginia
2016: Jacqueline Barge, Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, Chicago, Illinois
2015: Barbel Sepulveda, Lincoln High School, Stockton, California
2014: Vivian Hoette, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago
2013: Gregg L. Williams, Merrillville, Indiana, School District (Planetarium Director)
2012: Philip Deutschle, Salinas High School, Salinas, CA
2011: Mark S. Reed, Jackson High School, Jackson, Michigan
2010: John Blackwell, Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire
2009: Ardis Herrold, Grosse Pointe North High School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan
2008: Wil van der Veen, New Jersey Astronomy Center for Education at Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, NJ
2007: Kenneth W. Zeigler, Arizona Department of Corrections, Eagle Point School
2006: Thomas Morin, Belmont High School
2005: C. Steve Rapp, Linwood Holton Governor’s School
2004: John R. Land, Broken Arrow Senior High School
2003: Eugene S. Zajac, Shaker Heights High School
2002: Philip M. Sadler, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
2001: James G. Hill, Rainwater Observatory and Planetarium
2000: Jeffrey F. Lockwood, TERC: Center for Earth & Space Science Education
1999: Elizabeth S. Wasiluk, Hedgesville High School & Berkeley County Planetarium
1998: Walter N. Hawley, St. Paul’s School
1997: Darrel Hoff, Luther College
1996: Daniel Francetic, Euclid High School
1995: Jeane Bishop, Westlake Planetarium
1994: Larry Mascotti, Mayo High School
1993: Gary Sampson, Wauwatosa West High School