High school students dig into forensics

More than two dozen grade 10 to 12 students will learn about official evidence collection and processing techniques as they investigate a “crime” using realistic hands-on activities related to forensic anthropology at the Annual Forensic Anthropology Day at the University of Victoria.

Media are invited to photograph students collecting “evidence” and interpreting their findings as they uncover what happened during the crime. Students will map a mock grave and identify important characteristics about a person from their remains. Anthropology professors and participating students will also be available for interviews at the event, organized by Let’s Talk Science and the UVic anthropology department.

What: Annual Forensic Anthropology Day
When: Saturday, June 1 from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m.
Where: University of Victoria campus, walking paths between Ring Road and Cedar Hill Crossroad; across Ring Road from the Engineering and Computer Science Building (ECS).

Let’s Talk Science is an award-winning, national, charitable science outreach organization. It engages more than 3,000 enthusiastic post-secondary student and faculty volunteers at 34 universities and colleges across Canada to turn more than 140,000 kids on to science, engineering and technology each year. More info: www.letstalkscience.ca/uvic

Media advisory: This event is not open to the public.

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