Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

For more information and to apply, visit the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and visit the awards page.

 

The Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award, established by Wayne Rosing and Dorothy Largay in 2001, seeks to honor outstanding educational outreach by an amateur astronomer to K-12 children and the interested lay public.

 

2008 Winner:

 

Gary Fujihara from IfA, Hilo, Hawai'i 

 

Past winners:

Year Recipient Location
2007   Richard J. Smith Sparks, Nevada 
2006
Asghar Kabiri Sa'adat-shahr, Iran
2005 Mary Lou Whitehorne Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada
2004 Big Bang Band Traveling Star Show (Terry Dye, Matt Gardner, Angelo Parasi) Northern California
2003 Mario Motta Lynnfield, Massachusetts
2002 Dean Ketelsen Tucson, Arizona
2001 Joseph R. Caruso Harvard, Massachusetts