Awards

Nominate Educators for NCSTA Awards.

Nominations for 2024 NCSTA Awards - deadline May 31, 2024

 

Criteria for NCSTA Award Categories are listed below.


NCSTA Nomination Process:

 

Helpful Suggestion:  Nominators prepare your nomination letter and request a nomination letter from the nominee's principal/supervisor in advance of completing the nomination form.  
If you aren't able to upload two letters at the time of your online nomination, then upload the nominator's support narrative/letter and send the Principal/Supervisor letter directly to admin@ncsta.org.  

 

It is the nominator's responsibility to assemble a nomination packet to include:

·     A completed nomination form.

·    Two letters of support.

One narrative/letter from the nominator describing the nominee's experience and/or contributions. Limit to one page. Submit online at time of online nomination.

One letter of support must be from the educator's principal or supervisor (for the student teacher, from his/her mentor teacher). Ideally, submitted online at time of nomination. Or the letter may be emailed directly to admin@ncsta.org

 

     NCSTA membership is not a requirement for nomination for district awards. 

 

     Deadline for nominations is May 31.


 Outstanding Student Teacher in Science Award

Outstanding Student Teacher in Science Awards are presented to recognize undergraduate teacher education students seeking certification from a North Carolina college or university who have demonstrated outstanding ability as well as promise in the teaching of science during the student teaching process. The nominees must have completed student teaching within a year before the award presentation at the annual conference.

Three awards may be given:

  1. One for elementary grades

  2. One for middle grades

  3. One for high school.

You will receive an award and one year's membership in NCSTA.

Criteria for this award:

The student exhibits and has demonstrated the promise of excellence in science teaching as evidenced during the student teaching experience. The student demonstrates through the student teaching experience knowledge in understanding scientific processes, attitudes, and experience of teaching science through the manipulative process.

Past Award Winners


 District Outstanding Science Teacher Awards

These Awards are presented to recognize excellence in science teaching in North Carolina, to teachers who exemplify excellent, creative, innovative teaching of science. The award is open to teachers at the elementary, middle and high school grade levels.  The winners will receive an award and one year's membership in NCSTA.

Criteria for this award: 

The nominee shall be an educator in North Carolina who has been in his/her present position for at least 3 years and has demonstrated exemplary teaching in the following ways: creativity in use of science teaching materials; design and use of innovative teaching plans and ideas; development and implementation of department, school, and/or school-community programs for the improvement of science instruction or the stimulation of interest in science and the learning of science; high performance in the use of supplementary materials in an exemplary manner to integrate science with other subjects; and fostering student, school, and school-community instruction programs in science.

Past Award Winners - Prior to 2000

Past Award Winners - 2000 to Present


 Distinguished Service in Science Education in North Carolina Awards

Distinguished Service in Science Education Awards are presented to recognize excellence of contributions to science education in North Carolina. They recognize service to science education in the individual's school, school system, NCSTA district and at the state level.

Contributions in seven categories are recognized:

  1. Elementary

  2. Middle/junior high

  3. Senior high

  4. College/university

  5. Administrator/supervisor

  6. Non-school setting

  7. Commercial

The number of awards to be given each year will be determined by the Awards Selection Committee based on the qualifications of the nominees. The winners will receive an award and one year's membership in NCSTA.

Criteria for this award:

The nominee exhibits leadership in science education beyond the local administrative unit or position; has contributed to improvements in science education beyond the local administrative unit or position; has been associated with science education for at least five (5) years and has worked in a position related to the category in which nominated for at least two (2) years; and has excelled in the aspects of science education relative to the category in which nominated.

Past Award Winners - Prior to 2000

Past Award Winners - 2000 to Present


 

 Vi Hunsucker Award

 

This award is named in honor of NCSTA's founder and first president. Vi Hunsucker helped start the organization in 1969 and continued to provide leadership as it grew and expanded. The award recognizes an outstanding science educator who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to serve the students and teachers of North Carolina.


1980
Floyd E. Mattheis  
1999
Charles T. Vizzini
2009
Jack Wheatley
1981
William E. Spooner
2000
Peggy W. Holliday
2010
Linda Stroud
1990
Violet D. Hunsucker
2001
S. Ann Watkins
2011
Ann Scarborough McClung
1991
Mark S. Baker
2001
Michael C. Jackson
2012
Fran Nolan
1992
Helen M. Cook
2002
Tonya Hancock
2013
Mary Ellen Durham
1993
Don E. Bailey
2003
Clinton "Jake" Brown
2014
Renee Coward
1994
Fred Beyer
2004
Jo Wallace
2015
Kyle Carver
1995
Betty Abernathy
2004
Tom Bell
2016
Carolyn Elliott
1995
Jessie Jones
2005
Pat Shane
2017
Beverly Lyons
1996
Gerry M. Madrazo, Jr.
2006
Anne Palmer
2018
Norm Anderson
1997
Paul Taylor
2007
Ernest Bibby
2019
Jayson Duncan
1998
Charles Q. Brown
2008
Manley Midgett
2021
Judy Day
 
 
2022
Michelle Benigno
   
2023
Angela Adams
     

 

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