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RMS Teacher of the Year
About the Award
AAPG's annual award of $5,000 to be given to a K-12 teacher. The National award includes $2,500 to the teacher's school for the winning teacher's use and $2,500 for the teacher's personal use. In addition, the winner will receive an expense-paid trip to the Annual Meeting.
The award determined in 2008 will be given at the 2009 Annual Meeting and again will be sponsored by the AAPG Foundation.
Each Society that chooses to participate selects a local winner. The section winners are submitted to the national office in Tulsa for selection of the national awardee. A prize and recognition is also given at the local level.
At the National level, a level playing field for judging is required and all entries follow a specific format, using the guidelines described in the Entrant Information Cover Page and the Entry Guidelines in the AAPG Application Information page. For your convenience all of these guidelines can be found at foundation.aapg.org/toty/eforms.cfm.
2009 Teacher of the Year: Ty Scott Robinson
The winner of the 2009 AAPG award for "Teacher of Natural Resources in the Earth Sciences K-12" is Ty Scott Robinson, a teacher at Provo High School in Provo, Utah. He was the candidate submitted by the Utah Geological Association and nominated by the Rocky Mountain Section.
Previous Winners
| Year | Name | School | Location | Affiliated
Society |
| 2009 | Ty Scott Robinson | Provo High School | Provo, Utah | UGA |
| 2008 | Mary Fitts* | Sierra Middle School | Parker, CO | RMAG |
| 2007 | Candace Penrod | Hillside Middle School | Salt Lake City, UT | UGA |
| 2006 | Jim Schultz* | Helena High School | Helena, MT | MGS |
| 2005 | Cheryl Mosier | Columbine High School | Littleton, CO | RMAG |
| 2004 | William Christiansen | East High School | Salt Lake City, UT | UGA |
* Also went on to be awarded the National AAPG TOTY
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