High-School Innovators Design, Test New Pumper Tool

After a tough latrine pumping job, three high schoolers take it upon themselves to design and manufacture a screening hose attachment.
High-School Innovators Design, Test New Pumper Tool
Student Tommy Stuckart pulls a thick wad of paper off the pumper hose attachment he helped design and manufacture. It's likely that this amount of heavy-duty paper would have caused a hose clog without the attachment. — Photos By Anthony Drew

They’d been pumping the latrine for hours — detaching the hose, unclogging it and restarting the truck’s vacuum over and over again. It was an aggravating task, and it left the trio of high schoolers dispirited and fatigued. Later, as they stood together talking after work, they...

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