Recent Mira Loma High School graduate Casey Robbins has been awarded a scholarship for having collected used school textbooks to send to the African country of Liberia.

Robbins has been named one of five winners for the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award, which comes with $36,000, by the Helen Diller Family Foundation and The Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Each Diller honoree has initiated an innovative social action project exemplifying "tikkun olam," a central precept of Judaism meaning "repair of the world", scholarship officials said.

Robbins and the other recipients will be recognized at a celebratory luncheon in San Francisco on Aug. 29.

"I was really excited to hear I had been selected," said Robbins, who will attend Stanford University in the fall where she will major in civil engineering. "It kind of validated to me the importance of my project."

This is the fifth year for the Tikkun Olam Awards. The teens were selected by a panel composed of educators and community leaders from the counties of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Marin, Yolo, Fresno, Placer, Contra Costa, Alameda and Orange.

"We could not be more excited by what these remarkable teens have achieved,” Helen Diller, president of the sponsoring foundation, said in a released statement. “There is no doubt that this year’s honorees see how much our world needs help. With creative and committed solutions, they are tackling global issues of access to education, availability of natural resources and distribution of sorely needed humanitarian aid—with every step they truly do repair the world.”

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For more information on the Diller Teen Award scholarship, visit www.jewishfed.org/teenawards