Award/Scholarship Winners

McDaniel Bureau Innovation Award Recipients

Year Award Recipient Community
2009 Des Moines Area Sports Commission Des Moines, IA
2010 Quad Cities CVB Quad Cities, IA
2011 Minot CVB Minot, ND
2012 Rapid City CVB Rapid City, SD
2013 Aurora Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Aurora, IL
 2014  Kimball County Tourism
(budget less than $350,000)
 Kimball, NE
2014 Nouveau Marketing
(budget greater than $350,000)
Eau Claire, WI
2016 Owatonna Chamber & Tourism
(budget less than $350,000)
Owatonna, MN
2016 Rapid City CVB
(budget greater than $350,000)
Rapid City, SD
2017 Go Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids, IA
2018 Visit Omaha Omaha, NE
2019 Visit Winona Winona, MN
2021 Visit Rapid City Rapid City, SD
2022 DeKalb County CVB
(budget less than $350,000)
DeKalb, IL
2022 Travel Dubuque
(budget greater than $350,000)
Dubuque, IA
2023 Visit Winona Winona, MN

 

Bruce McDaniel Individual Professionalist & Lifetime Achievement Award Recipents

Year Award Recipient Organization
2009 Kim Burger Cedar Falls Tourism and Visitors Bureau
2010 Julie Weeks Ames CVB
2011 (1) Jim Garrett Chicago Southland
2011 (2) Vicki Comegys Greater Des Moines  CVB
2014 Paulette Lester Greater Des Moines CVB
2015 Joe Taylor Quad Cities CVB
2016 Keith Rahe Travel Dubuque
2017 Lisa Burke North Platte/Lincoln County Visitors Bureau
2018 Brent Cory Eagan CVB
2019 Christine Rebout Janesville CVB
2021 Julie Lunning Visit Great St. Cloud
2022 Jayne DeLuce Visit Champaign County

Bill Geist Up & Coming Leader Award Recipients

Year Recipient Organization
2018 Tyler Daugherty Travel Dubuque
2019 Celestino Ruffini Visit Beloit
2021 Chelsea Lerud Iowa Travel Industry Partners
2022 Krisilee Murphy Elgin Area CVB
2023 Tyson Steiger Visit Rapid City

Cole Carley Scholarship Recipients

Year Recipient Organization 
2013 Katie Mertens Devils Lake CVB
2014 Jo Caskey Kimbal County CVB
2015 Terry Baker Fairfield CVB
2016 Searle Swedlund Discover Jamestown
2017 Cheryl Osborne Henry County IL Tourism Bureau
2018 Michelle Kim Galesburg Area CVB
2019 Laura Schoen Carbonneau Brookings CVB
2021 Katy McNeil Columbus Area CVB
2022 Tiffany Batdorf

Mitchell Area Chamber of Commerce

2023 Dylan Does

Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce