Arriving at 6:02pm Monday, June 16th, the CSI Team finds two bodies lying at center field of the football stadium. It’s a double homicide……And so begins the fourth annual CSI Summer Camp for high school students at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro! High school students from around the country come to ASU for this 5 day camp, live in the dorms, and immerse themselves in learning the tools needed to solve the mock crime. This intensive, realistic, hands-on science-based camp challenges campers to learn and use the technology and database tools of forensics and criminal investigation and the reality and importance of proper evidence collection and custody procedures. Exercises include collecting evidence, securing a crime scene, conducting interviews and using computer forensics.
This CSI Summer Camp was originally designed in part as a recruitment tool to build the new Forensic Science undergraduate interdisciplinary program at ASU. Not only has this camp succeeded in attracting young investigators to forensic science but it has also served as an effective recruitment tool for the university, drawing students from as far away as Arizona, Texas, Michigan and Rhode Island.