Awards

The Outstanding Educator award is a Washington State PTA award given in recognition of an individual who goes beyond the normal expectations of their job to make the learning environment fun, beneficial, and challenging.

The Golden Acorn is the highest Washington State PTA award given to individuals for outstanding service in the school community. ICS PTSA makes a donation to the Washington State PTA Scholarship Foundation in the name of each of our recipients, which in turn funds $10,000 in scholarships to high school seniors for post secondary education.

The Phoenix award is given in recognition of an individual who has done an exceptional job on a task or committee. This award is unique to ICS.

Special Awards (discontinued)

Outstanding Student Advocate Award 2017 for leadership and service contributions to the school and community: Vishaka Nirmal
Founding Faculty Award 2012: Mr. Heil

Outstanding Educator Award Recipients

2026: Jacob Hendrickson, Lauren Jackson, Zack Aquino
2025: James Snowden
2024: Jennifer Ann
2023: Randy Huberman
2022: Lis Christiansen
2021: Amber Peterson, Chanhee Kim
2020: Lauren Jackson, Taryn Long
2019: Aleksandra Fraleigh, Erin-Adele Haley, Greg Gibson
2018: Cameron Brandy, Dana Hsi, Nancy Sullivan, Randy Huberman
2017: Andrya Packer, Julie Vasiliauskas
2016: Mark Elliott
2015: No award given
2014: Kathy Comeau, Nancy Sullivan
2013: Mark Elliot
2012: Cynthia Burt
2011: Mark Rayder
2010: Mark Bach
2009: Helen Henry
2008: Tim McFaul, Lori Smith
2007: Victoria Castenada
2006: Ted Over, Alicia Robertson
2005: Steve Murphy
2004: Lauro Pizzuto, Paul Plank
2003: Cindy Duenas, Andrew Ivy
2002: John Heil
2001: Dr. Bruce Saari

Golden Acorn Award Recipients

2026: Sanjeevini Mittal, Tarek Azoz
2025: Haiqian Yu
2024: Kristin Trace, Cassandra Andriychenko
2023: Srini Venugopal
2022: Michael O'Donnell, Mireille Baumoel
2021: Casey Engstrom
2020: Doron Avitan, Julie Kotler
2019: Cheryle Kawad, Samantha Robertson
2018: Glen Campbell, Oystein Harsvik
2017: Dr. Gregory Moncada 
2016: Harriet Peterson and Samantha Van Waardhuizen for their outstanding contribution and commitment to the ICS students
2015: Jeff Holzhauer and Namita Paul
2014: Fran Margolis
2013: Hae Sue Park, Kathy Lepschat
2012: Annette Dennenberg, Cathy Shaw
2011: Diane Davis
2010: Budy Djunaedi, Robin Hirano, Tina Snyder
2009: June Hanley, Peggy Etchevers
2008: Rick Colella, Denise Piaskowski
2007: Joanne Frasene, Bruce Reid
2006: Anne James
2005: Debbie Amandoli, Ellen Gowey
2004: Marguerite Moskat
2003: Kacy Murray, Bill Purpura
2002: Judy Heintz
2001: Shelley Cardiel, Melissa Nelson

Phoenix Award Recipients

2026: Wei Fung, Junfeng (Jeff) Chu
2025: Allyson Wen
2024: Jennifer Benner, Narayan Mishra
2023: Shirley Li, Janet Chee, Hanyue Jiang, Bagmita Mohapatra, Pavel Khijniak
2022: Eva Bertalan, Reanna Ricks, Gwen Stidham-North
2021: Albert Li, Girija Kurma, Prince Jose, Joanna McKay, Caterine
2020: Julia Piterkina, Myriam Pollock, Preethi Zacharias, Chi-Yin Lee, Shivani Gaind, Yulia Mikhailovskaya, Irina Shiyan
2019: Angelika Koch, Julie Kotler, Maggie Yao, Andrea Knauss
2018: Rong Liang, Tracy Botsford, Amy Iracheta
2017: Sue Austin, Nena Chaing, Wayne Hoofnagle, Anand Kancherla, Michaela Spaeth
2016: Allyson Danas, Kathy Thompson, John Urritia, and Daniel Yang for volunteers of the year
2015: Shafik Keshani
2014: Anne James, Beth Puryear, Guia Villavicencio, JoAnn Ten Brinke, Padmapriya Ganapathi, Shafik Keshani
2013: Chris Lazoritz, Debbie Davidson, Elena Morozov, Mary Levenson, Natalie Allenspach, Shirley Raabe 
2012: Lisa Burlingame, Wayne Drury, Louise Pathe, Julie Perrin, Jody Pucell-Slavek, Treva Tremblay
2011: Beth DeYoung, Lili Hughes, Brad Leibrand, Anina McMurdo
2010: Lisa Abel, Laurie Garcia
2009: Heidi Geiger, Debbie and Mark Eliason, Bruce Sult
2008: Anne Johnston, Marguerite Moskat, Cynthia Olsen
2007: Tim Blanchard, Lauri Garcia, Robin Hirano, Marny Livingston, Tim Miner, Carrie Schwitters
2006: Marla Cecil, Tomas Cardiel, Gial Frank, Clay Heilman, Rosie Winters
2005: Rick Collella, Nancy Ng, Joanne Frasene
2004: Nancy Doolittle, Dick and Gail Nova
2003: Peggy Etchevers, Suzanne Lin
2002: Nina Florenz, Bill Purpura
2001: Sue Beeson, Karen Chapman, Judi Heintz