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2009 Film Festival Application |
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Post Office Box 3065 |
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The Sequim community working together to inspire Sequim public school students to succeed! |
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By Stuart McColl, Independent Writer
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Friday
evening, April 24th, the Sequim Education Foundation hosted its 4th annual Student
Film Festival at Sequim High School Auditorium.
The audience was treated to 8 high quality short films created by
students of the
There were 3 top scholarship prizes, with the film Recycling is Murder winning the top prize. Each of the 3 creators, Michael Cullinan, Ravi Carlson, and Michael Lee, received $1000 in scholarship funds. The movie was a humorous play on recycling that emphasized all of the “bad” effects of recycling. Needless to say, anyone who saw the movie will probably see the positive logic of recycling. The 2nd place scholarship was awarded to an outstanding movie called The Ripple Effect that demonstrated the positive and ripple effect that good deeds have on those around you. It had a local component showing people around Sequim helping each other, and how that effect multiplies one person after another. It then featured an international part of the movie
2009 FILM FESTIVAL Film Festival Entries Following are the entries in the 2009 Film Festival together with names of the students who produced them: "Believe and Achieve" by Ted McColl, Jack McColl and Frank Catelli. "How to be a Nerd in 9 Easy Steps" by Dylan Holcombe, Kyle Gordeuk and Collin Winans. "Do You Believe?" by Emily Reis, Gabrielle Burnett and Alex Bullock. "The Delivery" by Joey Giammalva, David Copeland and Alex Clifford. "Friends Should be Friends Not Foes" by Quinn O'Bryant and Logan O'Bryant. "Recycling is Murder" by Michael Cullinan, Ravi Carlson and Michael Lee. "Help the Cause, Save the Elf People" by Rebecca Case, Amy mcAndie and Nic Seabolt. "The Ripple Effect" by Audrey Lichten and Margaret Norlund. 2009 FUNDRAISER SEF Launches We are grateful for your ongoing support as it is your generosity which makes it possible for us to meet the needs of our Sequim school children. Sequim Education Foundation (SEF) provides opportunities to inspire, motivate, challenge and reward Sequim's public school children. Our students and teachers count on SEF to fund stimulating educational activities, and we count on you! over
10,500 Children We need to raise $36,000 to fulfill our important mission to Sequim's students in the coming school year. We are budgeting $3,500 each for the annual Engineering Challenge and Student Film Festival competition, and $29,000 for scholarship awards and grants. SEF grants are awarded to individual students with special needs, and to teachers for classroom projects and activities. Listen to what an elementary school teacher David Hasenpflug had to say when he introduced an SEF sponsored class activity, "...the excitement and energy in the room was staggering!". Jane LeBeaume and Marilyn Ludke commented about their joint classroom grant, " It was the opportunity of a lifetime for these 2nd graders". SEF
GRANTS
Our volunteers work closely with
school administrators to inspire, challenge and reward Sequim public school
students through the activities we sponsor:
Dozens
of our Sequim school children hold scholarship accounts for winning SEF events. Last
month, we paid high school GED testing fees for several Sequim public school
"drop outs" who were rehabilitated through the Sheriff's
Juvenile Division. Their probation
officer said, "I
have made a decision for all youth...".
"To reach one, is to teach one".
When these young people receive their high school certificates, the
direction of their lives will be totally changed!
This
month, an SEF grant will help a number of Sequim high school students to attend
the University of Washington's Math Day. SEF
grants are planned to spark children's interest in learning.
At the weekend event, student's imaginations will be challenged by
seminars like "Mathematical Genetics: an Art of Thinking Backward" and
"The Mathematics of Juggling".
"For many, this will be their first
visit to a major college campus", their teacher said.
SEF
Engineering
Challenge MOTIVATES science STUDENTS! This
year's Engineering Challenge was an Egg Drop contest open to all Sequim students
enrolled in public school classes. The
event attracted more than 200 students and nearly as many spectators!
Over $7,300 in scholarships and prizes were awarded to winning
elementary, middle and high school students.
A mother wrote about her daughter's experience: "Equal
to the award was the fun we had... prototypes were made... eggs were broken...
equations solved.... It is education at its best; so much learned and so much
fun getting there!"
SEF
FILM
FESTIVAL COMPETITION INSPIRES CREATIVE ARTS STUDENTS! The 4th Annual Film Festival coming up
in April will give students in
grades 6 - 12 opportunities to win scholarships for college or technical school.
These young people will learn to work in teams to produce entries for the
Festival and the winning teams will share their scholarship prizes:
A
2006 winner boasted, "I
am the first in my family to ever win a scholarship".
Another said, "I'm going to be the first in my family to go to college".
SEF
provides educational opportunities that inspire, motivate, challenge and reward
Sequim students. Will you please
help us with your donation today? Our
public school children count on the good will of our community and we need your
help to encourage them to excel. SEF
is a local, recognized public charity managed by unpaid volunteers.
Our overhead expenses are just insurance, printing and postage which amounts to
approximately $3,500 a year. So your
gift will make a significant difference for our Sequim's public school children.
We
are asking our SEF Business Partners to contribute $250 and individual
supporters to give according to their ability... $25, $50, $100 or $1,000.
Every gift is important and appreciated.
Will you please help our school children today? (CLICK HERE) |
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a similar effect of a mission effort in
The
final scholarship prize went to an entertaining movie (The Delivery)
about a pizza delivery competition where 2 delivery guys competed to see who
could deliver a pizza faster. One
determined delivery person braved a crossing of the
Believe
and Achieve won the “Peoples Choice Award” otherwise known as the Elkie
award that is given to the film the audience cheers for the loudest.
The trophy is kept in the cabinet at the front of the High School.
The movie featured the
2009 FILM FESTIVAL Trophies for Best Individual Achievement Best Actor - Alex Clifford for "The Delivery".
Best Actress - Rebecca Case for "Help the Cause, Save the Elf People".
Best Direction - Ravi Carlson for "Recycling is Murder".
Best Screenplay - "Recycling is Murder"
Best Visual - "Friends Should Be Friends, Not Foes"
Best Sound - "Believe and Achieve"
2009 FILM FESTIVAL Sage Brown wins 2009 Poster Contest! Sequim High School student Sage
Brown walked away with $100 cash in the 2009 Film Festival Poster Contest. Each year
students in 6th through 12th grade compete to design the winning poster
promoting the annual SEF Student Film Festival. Congratulations to all those students who competed in the contest. All of the entries were creative well done. SEF wants to thank every one of these young people for their outstanding school spirit! 2008-2009 Engineering Challenge Congratulations In October 2008, Sequim Education Foundation sponsored its first annual Engineering Challenge for Sequim public school students in Kindergarten through 12th grade. First Place winners Zachary McLaughlin, Angela Bentley and Alison Cobb were awarded a $1,000 scholarship, $50 cash spending money and a souvenir medal. Second Place winners Michael Cullinan, Ian Jones and Duke Schnepf won a $750 scholarship, $25 cash and a souvenir medal. Third Place winners Heath Gillium, Celia McLaughlin and Jilian Hutchison-Blouin, were awarded a $500 scholarship, $15 spending money and a souvenir medal. Angela Bentley
walked away
with an additional $100 cash and the Grand Champion Trophy in the ‘drop off’
held between first place winners.
The Future is in the Hands of Today's Students
Discover how you can establish a classroom grant or scholarship award in the name of your business or in memory of a loved one. CLICK HERE "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." Diogenes |
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