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GREENSBORO — The robotics club at the Early College at Guilford and Girls, Inc., of Greensboro are two recipients of $13,000 in 2009 grant awards by the Teen Grantmaking Council .

The council provides an opportunity for high school students across greater Greensboro to gain leadership experience, meet area youth, voice opinions and make a difference by making grants to youth-directed projects that address community issues.

The Teen Grantmaking Council is a partnership between The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, N.C. Gives and Leading to Change.

“These young people are an inspiration through their involvement with the Teen Grantmaking Council and making a tremendous difference for the people in our community,” H. Walker Sanders, president of The Community Foundation, said in a press release.

The 2009 grant recipients are:

•New Jerusalem Cathedral’s youth group, BLAZE. It received $1,280 for organizing a demonstration to raise awareness of the homeless population in Guilford County;

•Early College at Guilford Robotics Club. It got $1,840 to spread science and technology throughout the county via science presentations;

•Girls, Inc. of Guilford County. It won $1,320 for a program that involves people expressing how they feel and what they think about their lives;

•Greensboro Youth Council. It received $2,000, for the collection of new and used prom dresses and accessories to give to underprivileged girls for their proms;

•Grimsley High School Sierra Club. It got $2,000 to conduct a professional energy audit of Grimsley;

•Page High School Environmental Club. It won $1,745 to establish a self-perpetuating recycling program;

•Page Playmakers, which received $1,000 to explore and learn about how extraordinary people can rise above handicaps and triumph in life; and

•Joseph’s House. It got $2,000, to provide emergency housing for one teen-ager for a month.

For more information on the council, go to www.cfgg.org.

Contact Nancy McLaughlin at 373-7049 or nancy.mclaughlin@news-record.com