About Us - STAO Awards
STAO/APSO is proud to recognize and honour members who make significant contributions to quality Science and Technology education.

Each year, members of STAO/APSO may nominate their colleagues for one of the following six STAO/APSO Awards:
- STAO/APSO Life Member Award
- Irwin Talesnick Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Science
- Jack Bell Award For Leadership in Science Education
- STAO/APSO Emeritus Award
- STAO/APSO Merit Award
- STAO/APSO Service Award
To download a PDF document containing the complete terms of reference for each award, click here.

How to Nominate a Colleague
Download the Initial Nomination Package: PDF or Microsoft Word.
Complete it and return to the Chair of the Awards Committee in one of the following ways:
- email: awards@stao.org
- fax: 1-800-754-1654
- mail: STAO/APSO Awards Committee
Box 771, 900 Lorne Ave.
Dresden ON, N0P 1M0

Nomination packages received after April 23, 2010 will not be considered by the committee.

Upon approval of the STAO/APSO Awards Committee, the nominator will be required to complete a more detailed Secondary Nomination Package: PDF or Microsoft Word.

Previous Winners

Jack Bell Award for Leadership In Science Education

1987	Jack Bell	1988	Dene Webber
1989	Jim Agban	1990	Don Garratt
1991	Michael Harrison	1992	Valerie Stief
1994	Peter Williams Denis Cooke	1995	Al White
1996	Alan Slater Paul Weese	1997	John Petit Reg Friesen
1998	Mars Bloch	1999	John Percy
2001	Keith Clark Denis McGowan	2005	Joanne Harris Malisa Mezenberg
2007	Bill Andrews

Excellence in Teaching Award

1980	Elgin Wolfe	1981	Gordon McKye Jack Wright
1982	Gerry Connolly	1983	Jim Calvin
1984	Stanley Shapiro	1985	Janice Palmer
1986	Art Geddis	1987	Bob Sanders Ed James
1988	Douglas Wrigglesworth	1989	Bob Giza Bill Konrad
1990	Anne Maher	1992	David Cournyea
(This award was replaced by the “Irwin Talsenick Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Science”)

Irwin Talesnick Award for Excellence In the Teaching of Science

1993 Irwin Talesnick 1996 Douglas De La Mater 1999 Roxanne Le Blanc-Lemieux		1994 Hugh McDonald 1997 Barry Allum 2002 Philip Gebhardt
STAO/APSO Emeritus Award
Murray Lang	Bill Andrews	Don Garratt	Peter Williams
Paul Trudel	Grant Pilkey	David Gregory	Ross Haley
Bessel Vanden-Hazel	Doug Jolley	Bill Sorenson	Keith Clark
Bert Stahlke	David Joyce	John Petit	Douglas Wrigglesworth
Raymond Bowers	Stanley Kosior	Wayne Bilbrough	Bill Konrad
Arthur Prudham	Allan Smith	Don Ursino	Frank Mustoe
STAO/APSO Life Member Award
Lincoln Steele	Donald Ivey	Irwin Talesnick	Dene Webber
Graham Orpwood	Donald Galbraith	Rick Carter	Gerry Connolly
T. Elgin Wolfe	Murray Lang	Jim Agban	Ed Thompson
Douglas Wrigglesworth	George Huff	Ian Mackellar	Terry Price
Ross Haley	Joanne Harris	Dan Eberwein

STAO/APSO Service Award

Lew Brubaker
Reg Friesen
Craig Johnson
Gord Phillips
Joe Scholz
Don Ursino
Jim Braun
Doug Jones
Jan Thor
Susan MacGregor
Aileen Vachon-White
Stan Kosior
Mark Kolohon
Gino Ferri
Derek Totten

Chem 13 News
Don Garratt
Terry Osmar
Don Plumb
Ed Thompson
John Henry
Tina Smajda
John Olson
Douglas Bannister
John Wilson
Nigel Bunce
Joe Engemen
Judy Wood
Joe Slezak
Earl Shieff

Phil Eastman
Joel Gorenkoff
Olga Panowyck
Jurgen Schneider
Verna Lister
Marca Williamson
Nadine Wright
Elizabeth Dunning
David Cash
Gino DiPasquale
Tom Olien
Irwin Talesnick
Ross Haley
Catherine Little

Peter Chin
Cathy Nevins
Keith Gibbons
Malcolm Bull
Lynda Bachynski
Sandra Boswell
Bob Giza
Perry DiSanto
Douglas Hayhoe
Faye Posmituk
Dan Eberwein
Meg O’Mahony
Marietta Bloch
Greg Finn

STAO/APSO Merit Award

Derek Totten
Linda Fex

STAO Pre-service Award of Excellence

JosieGalloro

Jackie Hancox

Jeffery Molson

Julie Mulhall

Don Galbraith Pre-Service Teacher Award of Excellence

2003
Daniel Arscott	Christie Arthurs	Krista Anita Barclay	Katherine Bitzer
Jane Brunette	Haydee Davis-Spinks	Esther deGroot	Jennifer Cottam
Andrew Holmes	Heather Howell	Pauline Lee	Dana Reaume
Katherine Simmons	Cheryl Slessor	Marc Veno

2004
Quinn Beilhartz	Katie Cain	Michelle Cook	Laune Farquharson
Kyle Guembel	Harry Hergash	Paul Kelba	Aileen Lee
Catherine Munroe	Lauren Reid	Jason Rowbottom	Jennifer Sommerville
John Van Dyk

2005
Ben Basu	Amanda Brownlee	Jocelyn Cooke	Yun Cheng
Emily Cole	Ezequial Doiny	Robert Finn	Kelli Hazzard
Andrea Hook	Julian Jarosh	Andris Krumins	Kristine Leach
Sean McCarthy	Colin McLaughlin	Emily McReelis	Sheila Merkley
Kathryn Moddle	Jane Petrovich	Jeff Szpirglas	Jon Stirtan
Swati Trivedi	Kara Ann Whitley

2006
Scott Cates	Ansen Avey	Natalie Bontes	Alexa Borovillos
Teresa Cicco	Tonya Coplen	Katharine Dixon	Karen Dockeray
Katherine Fleddereus	Lisa Gomes	Tobey Gullick	Andrew Hare
Emily Hawksby	Brent Kahara	Mandi Kofira	Lisa Lefort
Peter Matheos	Emily Mcclary	Amy Ouchterlony	Alexis Paluch

2007
Julie Domitrek	Alana-Rae Saunders	Shannon Henley	Cindy Komarechk
Nelson Wood	Allan Bowers	Megan Enns	Robb Mackay
David Klieman	Alexander Geukjian	Christina Swistun	Jennifer Wade
Robert Bender	Charmaine Condy	Susan Miller	Heather Schell
Leah Gibbons	Dionne Saul-Hamilton	Christina Paraskevopoulos	Jennifer Dale

2008
Laura Beares	Marcus Kumala	Rebecca Bowman	Pamela Core
Gina Dimopolous	Stephen Gambicourt	Amanda Greaves	Sara Hammel
Justin Hawn	Carolyn Houlgate	Jennifer Jaeger-Rodych	Ashley Knight
Marcius Kumala	Iika Milne	Jennifer Morrill	Ms. Michael Oatway
Tanya Pulfer	Mary Robinson	Sarah Ross	Erin Lea Sommerville
Ashley Tamlin	Annette Vezina	Victoria Wappel	Julie Waslynka

2009
Shelley Hands (Brock)	Vanessa Scali (Brock)	Kylene Jeffrey (Brock)	Joseph Del Paggio (Lakehead)
Mitchell Shaw (Laurentian)	Scott Hebert (Laurentian)	Jennifer Manzoor (Nipissing)	Susan Sharkey (Trent)
Matthew Campbell (Trent)	Sean Kitney (Trent)	Erica Di Vito (U of Ontario)	Diane Eadie (U of Ontario)
Bejay Prosser (U of Ontario)	Dan Roffey (U of T/OISE)	Anne-Isabelle Gravel (U of T/OISE)	Wesley Arthur (U of Windsor)
Cayla Iwasa (UWO)	David Hiebert (UWO)	Rachel Jones (UWO)	Louise Wilson (York)
Carmen Wong (York)	Asma Fatehi (York)

About Us - STAO Awards STAO/APSO is proud to recognize and honour members who make significant contributions to quality Science and Technology education.

About Us - STAO Awards
STAO/APSO is proud to recognize and honour members who make significant contributions to quality Science and Technology education.