DIXFIELD — For the second time, Dirigo High School English teacher Karolyn Buotte has been successful in getting a $500 grant for the school’s Outing Club.

Buotte said the club, now in its third year, has a membership of 30 youths from freshmen to seniors.

The grant enables the club’s members to take part in more outdoor activities, such as a sledding event at Mount Blue State Park earlier this month.

She said some of the money will be used for mountain biking at the park as well as at the Sugarloaf Outdoor Center, and snowshoeing or hiking up Whitecap Mountain in Rumford.

In addition to the outdoor fun events, the club also takes part in other activities, such as whitewater rafting in The Forks on the Kennebec River, and an overnight camping trip on the Appalachian Trail later in the spring. Service learning is part of those trips. Participants keep nature journals, read from books by John Muir and Henry David Thoreau, and help clear trails or build bog bridges.

Eleven high schools in the state received the most recent round of grants through the Teens to Trails program, which aims to establish an outing club in every high school in the state.

Dirigo High School is the only one in the western part of the state to receive the grant.