STAO Award Winners/ Lauréats des prix de l’APSO
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 Pettit Reg Friesen |
1998 | Mars Bloch | 1999 | John Percy |
2001 | Keith Clark Denis McGowan |
2005 | Joanne Harris Malisa Mezenberg |
2007 | Bill Andrews | 2010 | Elgin Wolfe |
2014 | Ross Haley |
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 Talesnick Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Science) |
Irwin Talesnick Award for Excellence In the Teaching of Science
1993 | Irwin Talesnick | 1994 | Hugh McDonald |
1996 | Douglas De La Matter | 1997 | Barry Allum |
1999 | Roxanne Le Blanc-Lemieux | 2002 | Philip Gebhardt |
2011 | Carl Kaufman | 2012 | William King |
2014 | Brent Campbell | 2014 | Linda Phillips |
2015 | James Ball | 2015 | Racquel Carlow |
2016 | Suzanne Monir | 2016 | Kendra Spira |
2017 | Peter Cudmore | 2018 | Michael Frankfort |
STAO/APSO Emeritus Award
Grant Pilkey | David Gregory | Ross Haley | |
Bessel Vanden-Hazel | Doug Jolley | Bill Sorenson | Keith Clark |
Bert Stahlke | David Joyce | John Pettit | Douglas Wrigglesworth |
Raymond Bowers | Stanley Kosior | Wayne Bilbrough | Bill Konrad |
Arthur Prudham | Allan Smith | Don Ursino | Frank Mustoe |
Doug Hayhoe |
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 | John Henry |
Chuck Cohen | Stephen Houlden | Dave Erb | Malisa Mezenberg |
Stephanie Grant | Gerrie Storr | Ralph Chou | Milan Sanader |
Paul Weese |
STAO/APSO Service Award
Lew Brubaker | Chem 13 News | Phil Eastman | Cathy Nevins |
Reg Friesen | Don Garratt | Joel Gorenkoff | Keith Gibbons |
Craig Johnson | Terry Osmar | Olga Panowyck | Malcolm Bull |
Gord Phillips | Don Plumb | Jurgen Schneider | Lynda Bachynski |
Joe Scholz | Ed Thompson | Verna Lister | Sandra Boswell |
Don Ursino | John Henry | Marca Williamson | Bob Giza |
Jim Braun | Tina Smajda | Nadine Wright | Perry DiSanto |
Doug Jones | John Olson | Elizabeth Dunning | Douglas Hayhoe |
Jan Thor | Douglas Bannister | David Cash | Faye Posmituk |
Susan MacGregor | John Wilson | Gino DiPasquale | Dan Eberwein |
Aileen Vachon-White | Nigel Bunce | Tom Olien | Meg O’Mahony |
Stan Kosior | Joe Engemen | Irwin Talesnick | Marietta Bloch |
Mark Kolohon | Judy Wood | Ross Haley | Greg Finn |
Gino Ferri | Joe Slezak | Catherine Little | Jill Pare |
Derek Totten | Earl Shieff | Peter Chin | Ron Ballentine |
Ralph Chou | Donna Stack-Durward | Gerrie Storr | Robert Moulder |
Mark Durward | Anita Ghazariansteja | Adrian Lee | Stephanie Grant |
Dave Erb | Dan Eberwein | Brent Brook-Allred | John Storr |
Marie Aragona | Brian Jubenville | Trudy Rising | Tony Vannelli |
Corrine Brook-Allred | Mahfuza Rahman |
STAO/APSO Merit Award
Derek Totten | Linda Fex | Dave Erb |
Erin Keyzers | Sheila Rhodes |
STAO Pre-service Award of Excellence
JosieGalloro | Jackie Hancox | Jeffery Molson | Julie Mulhall |
Don Galbraith Pre-Service Teacher Award of Excellence Recipients
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 | Vanessa Scali | Kylene Jeffrey | Joseph Del Paggio |
Mitchell Shaw | Scott Hebert | Jennifer Manzoor | Susan Sharkey |
Matthew Campbell | Sean Kitney | Erica Di Vito | Diane Eadie |
Bejay Prosser | Dan Roffey | Anne-Isabelle Gravel | Wesley Arthur |
Cayla Iwasa | David Hiebert | Rachel Jones | Louise Wilson |
Carmen Wong | Asma Fatehi | ||
2010 | |||
Kelsie MacLellan | Alison Heydon | Sarah Hammerton | Stefanie Clark |
Kimberley Ames | Sarah Szak | Shawnette Brangan | Todd Ormiston |
Matthew Devlin | Rebecca Curran | Mark Hayward | Michelle Zante |
Mary Ellen Davison | Neil Ramjewan | Craig Dwyer | Elli Kipper |
Enver Villamizar | Sherri Young | Vanessa Southern-Archer | Andrea Zagrodny |
Ava Klemensberg | Margaret Condarcuri | Kristian Levey | |
2011 | |||
Miranda Beninger | Stacey Joyce | Natalya Tuharyna | Melanie Henriques |
Owen Blythe | Michael Koufis | Michael Beukema | Katherine Kerley |
Romy Budlovsky | Kerri-Lee Langer | Blake Bowley | Jonathan Lam |
Kyle Craftchick | Dwayne MacIntosh | Rebecca Cartmell | Joyce Longfield |
Maren Gamble | Diana McDonald | Katlyn Davis | Colleen Mailloux |
Alison Hambleton | Nira Thiagalingam | Edward Gissing | Shantelle Novak |
Kayla Thomas | Marissa Unruh | Angelo Tarantini | Matthew Campbell |
2012 | |||
Jennifer Adams | Stephanie Fairweather | Miranda Lung | Rachel Rumstein |
Eric Bondy | Sarah Feddema | Ryan Manuel | Tegan Sitler |
Jessica Bouchard | Joelle Gonzalez | Lee Martin | Rene Tardif |
Brian Buckingham | Stacy Beth Gvozdanovic | Kayla Mazzolin | Jennifer Verge |
Siobhan Chirico | Kaitlin Hamel | Chrisstine Miller | Paul Vernon |
Amanda Clapham | Loren Hopkins | Christopher Reaume | Luren Waud |
Shawn Devin | Susana Ibdah | Kelly Robbins | |
Cameron Elsdon | Jessica Littlefair | Tammy Rowe | |
2013 | |||
Katelyn Brooks | Peter Brejcha | Vanessa Carducci | Allison Dow |
Danijela Eric | John Freer | Daniel Genesee | Natalie Gillis |
Douglas James | Megan Joyner | Rosilyn Kavanaugh | Suzanne LeBlanc |
Sean Magee | Corinna McKinnon-Rusk | John McNie | Lisa Ng |
Emily Podlipski | Janet Rudzroga | Christine Russell | Talat Sadiq |
Palvi Sidana | Stacey Saucier | Vanessa Trapani | Elizabeth Walsh |
2014 | |||
Kyle Fraser | Basile Robitaille | Jennifer Quinn | Jessica Miron |
Amanda Hartwick-Oxby | Chelsea Bekaert | Marianne Vander Dussen | Sara Trincao-Batra |
Alanna Bolotto | Vanessa Denov | Anna Tam | Katy Paton |
Jeffery McCarthy | T. Elijah Holt | Jennifer Van Eindhoven | Shannon Lebel |
Sara Avent | Emerson Jones | Sumeet Ashat | Victoria Iceton |
Amie Oxler | Jake MacTavish | Andrea Isogai | Sabrina Lorenz |
Marina Imperio | Michael Fanjoy | ||
2015 | |||
Bree Chaput | Goda Cutajar | Caroline Hill | Rebecca Johnson |
Nicholas Lessard | Saverio Lumia | Samuel MacTavish | Bassam El Masri |
Bryanna Melenhorst | Tanis Mercer | Christina Muzzatti | Jordy Netzel |
Joyce Posada | Bradley Robins | Hope Smith | Debika Thiruchelvam |
Gordon Trites | Amrina Visram | Nasrine Yacoub | |
2016 | |||
Gregory Armacinski | Koby Maclean | Aaron Stephens | |
2017 | |||
Morgan Bentham | Nathalie Boucher | Lisa Briona | Karen Hawrylyshyn |
Kendra Kerr | Sarah Kyriakopoulos | Joshua Lopes | Marnie Merchant |
Mark Minuk | Joshua Moscattini | Henry Nguyen | Michelle Painter |
Brittany Praturlon | Shelby Roth | Tali Schondorf | Christina Siderius |
Nicole Sierzputowski | Dyoni Smith-Page | Joanne Wolinksi | |
2018 | |||
Natalie Arbuzova | Ashley Chrisman | Valerie Lucic | Carolyn Pugh |
Methuna Rajakumar | Allison Saunders | Sarah Stanton | Kishon Thaveswaran |
Andrew Vincent DiVito | Jessica Zugic | Tyler McLaughlin | Bronte Yandeau |
Yarden Bourlas | Tal Oren | Jinnie Hyunjin Chung | Nicki Merkel |
Jessica D’Angelo | |||
2019 | |||
Christina De Silva | Richard Armacinski | Mélanie Makela | Alicia Brand |
Andrea Waine | Kimberly Reid | Matthew Cole | Julieta Heredia |
Kristel-Anne Fernandes | Jennifer Rudy | Laura Piercey | Jessica Rossy |
Taylor McCabe | Muna Muasher-Marji | Samantha Beattie | Rebecca Quirie |
Elizabeth Smith | Stephanie Whitworth | ||
2020 | |||
Greg Hanta | David Shillingford | Amanda Choi | Emily Claire Rayner |
Liliana Alexandra Theodorescu | Nadia Kashif | Michelle Miller | Tiffany Chung |
Meshell Alexa | Alexandra Arcese | Carleigh Lemke | Saya Szparlo |
Caleb Wesley | Dorothea Bailey-Leung | ||
2021 | |||
Julianne Carol Streeter | Olivia Yoshimoto | Adam Malloy | Rajan Brar |
Elissa Constantin | Aria A.D. Atwell | Leah Grimes | Naomi Lacelle |
Nicole Preddie | Tess Butler-Ulrich | ||
2022 | |||
Danielle Witteveen | John Storozinski | Julia Quinn | Stephanie Chimenti |
Dan Goldman | April Carter | Ben Carvin | Andrew Cain |
Vienna Bouttarath | Sarah Treesh | Farheen Ali | Janet Ho |
Alexandra Santos | Megan Shikaze | ||
2023 | |||
Tayyabah Naeem | Vanessa Salvaggio | Jessica De Oliveira | Martha Szwarczewski |
Victor Arhin | Kaliyah Malcolm | Pooja Sutharsun | Arthi Raviandran |
Larissa Crawley | Jasmine Sollen | Cameron Knox | |
2024 | |||
Heidi Amadei | Michelle Chin | Nawal Dib | Bruno Galle |
Diane Gibbard | Navjit Klair | Jessalyn Lam | Evangalin Milonas |
Sean Muir | Alyssa Opertshauser | Avery Robinson | Laura Weir |
Sameer Yachouh |
Certificates of Appreciation
2014 | |||
St. Martins S.S. | David and Mary Thomson C.I. | McGraw Hill Ryerson | Mimico |
Canadian Nuclear Association | Chris Broadbent | ||
2015 | |||
George Huff | |||
2018 | |||
Maureen Callan | Lauren Joakim | Brandon Zoras | Cindy Cosentino |
STAO Members Who Are Recipients Of The Ontario Volunteer Award For Their Work With STAO
2020 | |||
Cindy Adams | Brennan Caverhill | ||
2018 | |||
Sheila Rhodes | |||
2017 | |||
Chuck Cohen | Dave Gervais | Brian Jubenville | Jocelyn Paas |
2016 | |||
Racquel Carlow | Karen Dodds | John Kinnear | Kris Lee |
Mahfuza Rahman | Sylvia Welke | ||
2015 | |||
Corrine Brook-Allred | Brent Brook-Allred | Anjuli Ahooja | Val Jarrett |
Peter Reiter | Milan Sanader | ||
2013 | |||
Stephanie Grant | Donna Stack-Durward | Stephen Houlden | Stan Taylor |
Monica Roy | |||
2012 | |||
John Storr | Bob Moulder | Adrian Lee | George Huff |
2011 | |||
Otto Weavers | Paul Seaman | Malisa Mezenberg | Laurel Schollen |
Sarah Vurma | Ralph Chou | ||
2010 | |||
Jim Agban | Don Galbraith | Anita Ghazariansteja | Dave Erb |
Dan Eberwein | Susan Robinson |