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2008
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DSU Hosts Forensics Workshop Dakota State University will host a workshop for high school students interested in forensic science Friday and Saturday, July 15 and 16. The workshop will begin each morning at 9am and conclude by 4pm. About 20 participants are expected Friday and 40 are registered for Saturday. Faculty members Richard Bleil, Kurt Amundson and Brad Hesser are putting together elements of biology, graphics and physics in the two-day workshop. Crime scenes will be staged on the DSU campus, with participants working to collect and analyze evidence. The scenes will be roped off and will be treated as actual crime scenes by the students, who will dust of fingerprints, collect samples, document evidence, and then run tests of the samples collected. Several different crime scene scenarios will be used, including a sexual assault, a kidnapping, and a collapsed balcony. The goal of the workshop, according to Bleil, is to “teach students about evidence collection, teach them what to do with the evidence, and then teach them to put the evidence together into a chain of events that lead to the situation presented to them.” The workshop is free and was offered to students at high schools across the state of South Dakota. |
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