{"id":74570,"date":"2016-10-27T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74570"},"modified":"2016-10-26T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T01:16:35","slug":"holy-cross-academy-students-explore-forensic-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74570","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cross Academy Students Explore Forensic Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Becca Ferek explains how to sketch a crime scene during her forensics class at Holy Cross Academy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seniors at Holy Cross Academy are getting a look at real crime solving this year with former Virginia Sheriff’s Deputy Becca Ferek.<\/p>\n

“I’m a hands-on person,” Ferek said of her teaching style. So her students are actively sketching mock crime scenes and gathering evidence with the same skills and tools used by professional investigators.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was cool because we got to see how it happens in real life,\u201d said student Maria Twal.<\/p>\n

They have also learned how to sharpen their observation skills by \u201ctailing\u201d other students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was interesting because you can get a lot of information just by talking to someone,\u201d said student Ivy Domes.<\/p>\n

Ferek, who earned her Master\u2019s degree in Forensics from George Mason University in Virginia, hopes to show students that what they see on TV crime shows is not quite reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing gets solved in 45 minutes,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is what\u2019s called the CSI effect where jurors are swayed by their misconceptions of crime scene investigations picked up from watching TV.\u201d Ferek said she hopes to show her students how the process really works.<\/p>\n

She also wants the class to show students all the career possibilities in forensics and how a multitude of professions can lead into the field. For instance, dental forensics can be used for identifying bodies, forensic photography for documenting crime scenes, and forensic psychology for behavioral profiling.<\/p>\n

Holy Cross Academy is a Catholic jr\/sr high school located in Oneida. Learn more about it at www.holycrossacademy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seniors at Holy Cross Academy are getting a look at real crime solving this year with former Virginia Sheriff’s Deputy Becca Ferek. “I’m a hands-on person,” Ferek said of her teaching style. So her students are actively sketching mock crime scenes and gathering evidence with the same skills and tools used by professional investigators. \u201cIt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-joK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Forensics2.jpg?fit=3147%2C4767&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}