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They learned how to manage projects, work on a team, and \u2014 importantly \u2014 embrace the many utilitarian wonders of PVC pipes and power tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the aquaculture facilities across the state, undergraduate interns worked with Kyle Freimuth, a graduate student at 51ÁÔÆæ School of Freshwater Sciences, at Northey Farms in Deerfield, Wisconsin, a fish farm that uses both outdoor ponds and a recirculating aquaculture system to raise yellow perch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freimuth got a crash course in farm management. 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