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Often the best education comes from the combination of classroom learning and hands-on, real-life experience.

Recently, digital design students from Lecanto High School were invited to spend a morning at Citrus Sports and Apparel in Crystal River with owner Will Wilson.

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Kasandra Ross, 17, a Lecanto High School senior, is assisted by Will Wilson on Thursday morning, Jan. 18, at his Citrus Sports & Apparel business in Crystal River. Students from the school’s digital design class were given a tour of Wilson’s business and had an opportunity to print their own T-shirt. Above, the two print a shirt on Wilson’s manual silk-screen press.









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Lecanto High School Digital Design instructor Maryjean Reindi Krizanac looks over the design her students will print on a T-shirt Thursday, Jan. 18, at Citrus Sports & Apparel in Crystal River.









LHS digital design class

ABOVE: Lecanto High School Digital Design students listen to Citrus Sports & Apparel owner Will Wilson on Thursday, Jan. 18, as he offers instruction on how a manual silk-screen press operates. RIGHT: Tools used to print silk-screen designs overlook the printing presses at Citrus Sports & Apparel in Crystal River.


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LHS digital design class

ABOVE: Lecanto High School Digital Design students listen to Citrus Sports & Apparel owner Will Wilson on Thursday, Jan. 18, as he offers instruction on how a manual silk-screen press operates. RIGHT: Tools used to print silk-screen designs overlook the printing presses at Citrus Sports & Apparel in Crystal River.


Chronicle photo editor