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 | |||
| 2025 | |||
| Callie Agro | Bernadette Boris | Lauren Cunningham | Zaynab Karimjee |
| Lindsay Lesperance-Nantau | Brian Mapaye | Nicholas McGregor | Neha Nadeem |
| Elvina Patapau | Anthony Pereira | Risha Raythatha | Alexander Swistun |
| Christina Wilson |
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 |