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Summer programs gives Tucson teens hands-on career knowledge with Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department.
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Jeanette Fitzpatrick, an operations and mechanical technician, guides Yamaika Romano,17, through routine system checks during the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department's Bio-Science Academy at the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility, 7101 N. Casa Grande Highway, on July 25, 2017, in Tucson, Ariz. The month-long program allows high school juniors, seniors and recent graduates hands-on learning about microbiology, chemistry and environmental issues through shadowing at the county's reclamation facilities.
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Jeanette Fitzpatrick, left, an operations and mechanical technician, checks a water sample drawn by Pueblo High School senior Noemi Sumalinog.
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Noemi Sumalinog, 17, checks the oil level on a water pump with Jeanette Fitzpatrick, right.
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Jeanette Fitzpatrick, left, an operations and mechanical technician, explains the valves on a pump to (from right) Victor Carrillo, Noemi Sumalinog and Yamaika Romano.
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Victor Carrillo, a, 17-year-old Pueblo High School graduate, records a sample temperature as Yamaika Romano, 17, looks on.
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Victor Carrillo, a, 17-year-old Pueblo High School graduate, scampers away as he deems the emergency wash station test a success.
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Jeanette Fitzpatrick, middle, an operations and mechanical technician, explains pump processes to Noemi Sumalinog, left, and Victor Carrillo.
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Jeanette Fitzpatrick, right, an operations and mechanical technician, shows Yamaika Romano, 17, where to read a valve indicator.
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Victor Carrillo, a 17-year-old Pueblo High School graduate, collects a sample of water in the reclamation process.
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Yamaika Romano, 17, collects a water sample.
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Destini Vasquez pulls out wastewater samples from an oven for weighing.
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Lizzy Esparza, 17, weighs a reduced reclaimed wastewater sample.
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Chemist Dianna Benson, right, explains the testing process Pueblo High School students (from left) Alondra Cordova, Destini Vasquez, Bri McElroy and Julian Andrade.
Bio-Science Academy
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Jeanette Fitzpatrick, an operations and mechanical technician, guides Yamaika Romano,17, through routine system checks during the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department's Bio-Science Academy at the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility, 7101 N. Casa Grande Highway, on July 25, 2017, in Tucson, Ariz. The month-long program allows high school juniors, seniors and recent graduates hands-on learning about microbiology, chemistry and environmental issues through shadowing at the county's reclamation facilities.
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