Three students from Milwaukee Area Technical College recently made waves at the Wisconsin Wastewater Operators Association’s annual conference in Green Bay as the only student team that competed in the 2019 Operator Competition event.
The team — named the Freshwater Bandits — was comprised of students Alyssa Widowski, Dragan Pavlovic and Noel Crowder, all part of MATC’s Environmental Health and Water Quality Technology program. Pavlovic and Crowder served tours of duty in the U.S. Marine Corps and Widowski has in the past worked in the plumbing field assisting her father with sump pump installations. Widowski is now a Wisconsin Department of
