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SEF
has Benefited We need to raise $36,000 annually to fulfill our important mission for Sequim's public school students. Will you please help? SEF Film Festival
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Third World Band
The August Reggae in the Rainshadow benefit show at Jamestown Casino yielded $1,000 for the SEF 2010-2011 Teacher Grant Program. Teacher grants fund classroom projects and extra-curricular activities designed to inspire students to learn. Teachers will be submitting grant requests for the upcoming school year in September. Our Future is in the Hands of Today's Students
Contact us to discover how you can set up an annual classroom grant or scholarship award in the name of your business or loved one. CLICK HERE $5,400+
Awarded Teachers for SEF awarded 10 grants totaling over $5,400 and to help 1,620 students in the Sequim classrooms this year and nearly 2,200 in subsequent years. Several of the science grants were funded by the Don H. Anderson Memorial Grant Fund.
"Teachers who take time to seek out and apply for programs like this add so much value to the classrooms and our children, and we thank all of them for the extra effort they put into such a very important job", Grant Committee Chair Kathy Schock said. Teacher Grants Funded for Classrooms
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5th
Annual Film Festival
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"Quiet on the Set... ROLL 'EM!" The Sequim Education Foundation's 5th Annual Student Film Festival got underway last Friday at the Sequim High School Performing Arts Center. The event played to a full house and the balcony was opened to handle the overflow crowd.
The
festive evening started off at 5:00 pm with a wonderful Spaghetti dinner
fundraiser in the High School Cafeteria put together by SEF's Patsene Dashiell
and served by A Catered Affair.
The Irrigation Festival Royalty and a dozen or so high school students
helped wait on tables. The
High School Percussion Band gave a rousing performance.
High School singers Stephanie Dunbar, Rachel Hughes and Haleigh
Harrison, and guitarists Adrian Clifford and Isaac Gautschi
performed. After
dinner, SEF Film Festival chairperson Elna Kawal started the show
promptly at 7:00 pm.
Then she turned over the microphone to emcees Dalton Ackley, Thomas
Gallagher and Roman Turner who introduced the videos.
The films in order of their showing were a snowboard action production Lib
or Die by Ted and Jack McColl and Ryan Tucker, a spoof called Fairytales
Gone Wrong by Rebecca Case and Amy McAndie and a music video Next
Generation by Fariss Ryan, Peter Harker and Christian Merrikin.
These entries were followed by Survivor
Banana Belt by Holly and Brendon Hudson; The
Great Race by Jeb, Jenny and Luke Mooney; Misty
Pond by Frank Catelli, Mackenzie Grinnell and Evan Watkins;
and The Summer Wind Came Killing In by Ravi Carlson and
Michael Cullinan. Next,
a signed copy of Sequim High School senior Taylor Roads' stunning 2010
Film Festival poster framed by Karon's Frame Center was auctioned off for $200
by the emcees. Then,
while everyone waited for the exciting awards ceremony, teacher Stu Marcy
ran up on stage with his trusty applause meter to measure the audience's
cheers and whistles for their favorite video.
The noisiest response was given up for The
Summer Wind Came Killing In, so the traditional "Elkie " trophy
will go back on display at the high school.
Finally,
the BIG moment arrived!
Sequim School Superintendant Bill Bentley and SEF's Elna Kawal walked
on stage to award participants and winners their scholarships, certificates,
golden statues and big "checks" made by In Graphic Detail.
The envelopes were opened and the decisions of the nine independent
judges were read!
"First Place" for
best video went to The Summer Wind Came Killing In, "Second Place" to Survivor
Banana Belt and "Third Place" to The
Great Race. Holly
Hudson was named "Best Actress" and Michael Cullinan
"Best Actor".
Contestant Christian Merrikin won a brand new 15.6" laptop
computer in the SEF drawing held exclusively for video production team members. Kawal
said, "The films were really great this year".
Superintendent Bentley replied, "I truly appreciate everything SEF
does for our students".
Sequim Education Foundation is particularly grateful to the Sequim Community Foundation, the Sequim Alumni Association, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and A Catered Affair for their generous support of the Film Festival. SEF deeply appreciates the faithful support of our community members and the help of our schools, parents and students who gave so much to stage this year's event.
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Christian Merrikin Wins Drawing
for Laptop Computer at Film Festival
Surprise! As a spoof, emcee Roman Turner presented raffle winner Christian Merrikin an old computer terminal. Merrikin actually won a brand new MCI Intel Dual Core 16" Notebook PC with 3GB RAM, 320GB HD, DVD-RW, Integrated Webcam and WIndows 7 OS. The raffle was exclusively for Video Team Production members who submitted entries for the 2010 Film Festival. Merrikin was a member of the team that made the music video Next Generation. 2010 Engineering Challenge
Winners - High School Division First Place: Emily Madsen, Nicole Masangkay and Caitlin Pallai Second Place: Holly Hudson Third Place: Michael Cullinan Fourth Place: Dylan Foxlee Winners - Middle School Division First Place: Melissa Copeland Second Place: Peter Ohnstad Third Place: David Torgersen Fourth Place: Tararin Nikomborirak Winners - Elementary School Division First Place: John Edson and Skyler Hallinan Second Place: Violet Odell and Flora Walchenbach Third Place: Ethan Mair Fourth Place: Darby Thompson
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