Investigators Wednesday were trying to figure out an incident in Mountain Home which allegedly left Pinkston Middle School Principal Allison Dewey unconscious. That was the plot for approximately 200 Pinkston sixth-graders to figure out in the annual CSI or Challenging Students to make an Impact project at the Baxter County Fairgrounds. The event has Mountain Home High School students working with the sixth graders to determine what happened to Principal Dewey, in a fictional crime scene, asking students to figure out if she was struck from behind and who could have done it, or if it was accident.
During the full day activity a series of interactive labs, stationed with high school students, are set up for the the sixth graders to investigate a particular topic. Each station has some sort of hands on demonstration ranging from blood typing to carbon fingerprinting.
Another station, was ran by a team from the Criminal Justice Department of Arkansas State University Mountain Home.
Instructor Kurt Monroe says the over theme of their booth was to maintain the integrity of physical evidence by identifying, collecting and preserving it.
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During the full day activity a series of interactive labs, stationed with high school students, are set up for the the sixth graders to investigate a particular topic. Each station has some sort of hands on demonstration ranging from blood typing to carbon fingerprinting.
Another station, was ran by a team from the Criminal Justice Department of Arkansas State University Mountain Home.
Instructor Kurt Monroe says the over theme of their booth was to maintain the integrity of physical evidence by identifying, collecting and preserving it.
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11th Grade Mountain Home High School Student Alissa Caldarera says she enjoys teaching the young investigators.
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Sixth grader Zach Barr says he enjoyed the mystery and was learning a lot.
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In the end students learned a delivery man had applied for a teaching position at the school and had been rejected by the principal. He left a box in her way where she would trip on it however, he was caught from blood left at the scene when he tried to make his getaway.
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