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Waterford students let their knowledge flow to others

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Ian Navarro, 11, puts his hand in ice water to learn what the water would feel like in the local canals Tuesday during the Waterford after-school program’s Tuolumne River education fair, called Water Works, at River Park.
Ian Navarro, 11, puts his hand in ice water to learn what the water would feel like in the local canals Tuesday during the Waterford after-school program’s Tuolumne River education fair, called Water Works, at River Park. Andy Alfaro aalfaro@modbee.com

Waterford Elementary fourth- and fifth-graders who’ve been in the Tuolumne River Trust’s Trekking the Tuolumne educational program this school year shared with classmates on Tuesday some of what they’ve learned.

Students who participate in Waterford Elementary’s after-school program attended a fair, called Water Works, put on by the Trekking the Tuolumne kids, who manned education stations. The fair was held in River Park.

One of the stations focused on the drought and the need for water conservation. The rest were games and activities the students who participated in Trekking selected from their experience in the program, said Meg Gonzalez of the Tuolumne River Trust.

“They’ve spent a year studying the Tuolumne and the services it provides and the drought,” Gonzalez said. “They do a service learning project as part of Trekking, and they chose to do this Water Works fair.”

For more on the Trekking the Tuolumne program, go to http://tinyurl.com/trektuolumne.

This story was originally published April 21, 2015 at 6:25 PM with the headline "Waterford students let their knowledge flow to others."

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