Sequim teachers got some help for special projects Monday night, as the Sequim Education Foundation announced its fall 2014 grants totaling a little less than $9,000.

Recipients awarded funding were:

• Allison Hastings, Steve Koehler, David McInnes, Shannon Paselk, Paul Pinza, Debbie Quinnell, Tracelene Williams and Isabella Morrison, all Sequim Middle School teachers, for a sixth-grade field trip to Seattle’s Pacific Science Center to experience the Pompeii exhibit ($5,065.60)

• Abigail Carl, Olympic Peninsula Academy enrichment coach, to purchase camera and equipment needed for students to create short films ($992.90)

• Teacher/librarians Sheri Kruckeberg, Helen Haller Elementary; Elizabeth Lawson, Sequim Middle School; Linsay Rapelje, Sequim High School; and Dena Riccobene, Greywolf Elementary; for the purchase of books to be used for Sequim School District’s annual Family Reading Night event on Jan. 28 ($800)

• Bridget Shingleton, Sequim High School physical education teacher, to buy various PE equipment ($785.34)

• Betsy Smith, Helen Haller Elementary Title 1 reading specialist, to buy non-fiction texts that help students read and understand complex informational texts addressed in Common Core curriculum ($687.52)

• Casey Lewis, a sixth-grade, special education language arts and math teacher at Sequim Middle School, to buy academic tools for struggling math students ($368.98)

• Nellie Bridge, Sequim High School ninth-grade English teacher, for purchase of materials for use in literature to improve student close reading ($200).

“With your generosity, we’re going to be able to do some great things for our kids,” Sequim schools superintendent Kelly Shea said Monday.

“The district funds and supports many activities and programs,” assistant superintendent Gary Neal said. “However, there are learning opportunities that the district is unable to fund, and SEF has helped to fill that void with their teacher grant program.”

A grant review committee on Nov. 12 considered eight proposals written by 18 teachers.

The grant review committee included Deol, Leanne Nestor, community member and teacher grant committee co-chair, Gary Neal, Sequim School District assistant superintendent, Patsene Dashiell, Sequim School District communications director, and community members Cathy Hinz, Lynn Kauffman and Robert Falk. SEF student representatives Kelly Anders and Hannah Patterson from Sequim High School, and Aaron Jackson from Sequim Middle School also took part in the application review process.

Community members Jeff and Cathy Rawlins contributed significant funding to the grants, foundation representatives said.