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Awards

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

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