Vision Net of Great Falls, brings ‘CSI Montana’ lessons to all Montana students.
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"CSI" went to Rudyard and Helena on Tuesday.
Virtually, that is.
"There's no reason we can't take these sorts of classes to schools all over the state."
Through a cooperative effort between Montana public schools, the state Department of Justice and a company called Vision Net, a toxicologist from the State Crime Lab in Missoula presented an interactive video class to the far-flung high school students.
"The crime lab is set up to do video conferencing so they don't have to travel so much, and some of our schools are set up for exactly this sort of thing," said Bruce Wallace, ITV manager for Vision Net http://www.matr.net/click.php?id=&ur ... sion.net%2F , which is based in Great Falls. "It's pretty easy to put these technologies to work so we can essentially put the crime lab in the classroom."
By MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian
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Crime lab comes to school
By ALANA LISTOE Independent Record
High school students considered three cases Tuesday: a female found dead with injection marks in her arm; a 25-year-old male found dead and naked in a hotel room; and a male found dead face down in his bedroom.
The scenarios were presented by state toxicologist Jim Hutchinson through an interactive videoconferencing call with Helena High School, North Star High School in Rudyard and the Montana Crime Lab in Missoula.
The students in Jim Schulz’s CSI class at Helena High spent the class period Tuesday going over toxicology reports on the cases in an attempt to determine the cause, manner and mechanism by which the people died.
Selina Northey enjoyed taking a break from a typical day of labs using microscopes, slides and beakers to learn about toxicology.
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