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SASTA Medal 2018
SASTA’s Annual Award for Excellence in Science Education
There are many people who deserve recognition.
Don’t leave it up to a small committee to seek nominations. Do something about it yourself.
SASTA offers its members an award for excellent contribution to science education or teaching or both. The SASTA Medal takes the form of an inscribed golden medallion, which will be presented at the annual SASTA conference.
It is a requirement that recipients of the medal will
have clearly demonstrated an outstanding long-term commitment to one or more areas of science education.
The SASTA Medal can be awarded to any member from R-12 through to post-secondary areas of education. Do you know someone who ts the following criteria?
SASTA Medal Criteria
1. The nominator must be a current member of SASTA.
2. The nominee must have been a member or been involved with SASTA for at least 10 years.
3. The nominee should have made a signi cant contribution to SASTA in any of the following areas over a period of at least four years.
• SASTA committees
• Voluntary contributions to SASTA
• Representing SASTA
4. The nominee should have had active involvement in science education in any of the following areas:
• Teaching
• Inservicing
• Curriculum development
• Consulting/advising
• Writing articles or books
• Serving on reference groups
• Representing science teachers
If you wish to nominate someone for the SASTA Medal please complete the nomination form with as much detail as possible. It may be easier as a faculty to nominate someone, in order to share information. You can nominate yourself for this Award.
Previous Medal Winners
1983 Lester Russell 1984 Bob Morton 1985 John Smith 1986 Peter Schodde 1987 Terry Woolley 1988 Ron Page
1989 D’Arcy Walsh 1990 Thelma Pike 1991 Maris Silis
1992 Tony Diercks 1993 Cees van Putten 1994 Iris Mullins
1995 Peter Russo 1996 Phil Allan
1997 Yvonne Zeegers 1998 Jane Wright 2000 Mike Roach 2001 Rick Daley
2002 Jan Brooks
2003 Simon Langsford 2004 Sharon Russo 2005 Grahame Ferguson 2006 Bronwyn Mart
2007 Peter Turnbull 2008 David LeCornu 2009 Anne Langsford 2010 Cliff Rothenberg 2011 David Lloyd
2012 Marianne Nicholas 2013 Ian Maynard
2015 John Glistak
2016 Mark Divito
2017 Katrina Elliott