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Photos: Students soak in lessons at second annual Yampa Youth Water Festival

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Leeli Bridgewater from the North Routt Community Charter School launches a water-propelled rocket into the sky as part of the "Under Pressure" station at the second-annual Yampa Youth Water Festival on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at the Routt County Fairgrounds and Dry Creek Park in Hayden. The Upper Yampa River Conservancy District hosted 385 fifth graders from across Routt and Moffat Counties, who were attending to learn about water with 22 different learning stations.
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Emily Lowell of the Upper Yampa River Conservancy District fills up a container at a learning station where students apply Newton’s Law of Motion by launching water-propelled rockets into the sky.
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Friends of the Yampa employee Katie Berning demonstrates how to use rescue throw bag by tossing it toward Jenny Frithsen.
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Hudson Clarke, a fifth-grader at Steamboat Springs Mountain School, works to avoid Grace Kelley as part of a learning station designed to teach students about how soil, plants and water are interrelated.
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Shealyn OConnor of Steamboat Mountain School balances balls that represent water molecules.
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