CSI Holmdel: Summer Camp Unit
St. John Vianney School in Holmdel offered kids ages 11-14 hands-on instruction into criminal investigation.
Ah, the idylls of summer camp: bullet casings, DNA swabs, and blood splatters. Welcome to CSI Lab & Investigation camp at St. John Vianney Institute of Learning, at St. John's High School in Holmdel, where teacher Kathleen Donohue spent a week teaching 14 campers the science and not-for-the-squeamish details of criminal detective work. Students got a good overview of the myriad disciplines that encompass criminal investigation, like human biology and the function of DNA in determining suspects, and the chemistry behind testing unknown substances. You need solid communication and meticulous observation skills to conduct proper crime scene protocol, she told them -- contaminated evidence or a shoddy police report will get your case thrown …
