2017 Astronomy Picture of the Day (September 22), Solar Eclipse Solargraph

 

2013 Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (audio)

 

2013  RHG Exceptional Achievement OUTREACH-TEAM, to the NASA Transit of Venus Outreach Team, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

 

2012 Galileo Award, Great Lakes Planetarium Association (video)

 

2010 Armand N. Spitz Memorial Lecturer Award (text and audio), Great Lakes Planetarium Association

 

2009 Patron of the Year, Penn-Harris-Madison Planetarium

 

2009 Executive Director's Award, International Dark-Sky Association

 

2009 Linden Prize Top Ten Finalist, Linden Labs

 

2008  Toyota TAPESTRY Award for Excellence in Science Education

 

2006 Person of the Year, TIME Magazine

 

2004 Chuck Bueter Day (May 17), City of Mishawaka

 

2003  Toyota TAPESTRY Award for Excellence in Science Education

 

2002  A Yahoo! Pick of the Week (April 6), for Paper Plate Education

 

1998 Fellowship Award, Great Lakes Planetarium Association