Forensic
Camps Australia 
ABOUT
THE CAMP
DO YOU WANT
TO COME?
FOR 2008 CAMPERS
Who is the camp for?
The prime objective of the Talented Students Forensic Science Camp is to develop skills in solving very complex real-life problems. Problems that will take days, not hours or minutes, to solve. Problems that require the focused intelligence of a group of enthusiastic individuals working together as a focussed team.
The problem solving tasks would be a challenge for any secondary school age group but we restrict the campers to students who are in year 8 (NSW and other states) and year 9 (Qld), in order to achieve a relatively homogeneous social group.
The Camp is not targeted at students with great strength specifically in Science. It challenges a broad range of skills. If your main skills are in written expression, they will be of value to the group you work with and you will find the Camp no less exciting.
So, in a nutshell, who is the camp for?
Students in year 8 (year 9 Queensland) who are intellectually capable, intensely enthusiastic about learning and who get a buzz out of solving problems. If you are not all of these things you will not enjoy the camp. If you are all of these things it will be an incredibly stimulating and unforgettable experience!
But make no mistake, the crime-solving problem that will face you at the Camp will not be easy. Read the words of a past camper who had always found school problems to be a pushover.
"Originally, when I first decided to take part in the Forensic 2002 Science Camp I had not a clue of what even 'forensic" meant and I was unsure what I was heading into. I did not know what to expect but I considered myself capable of tackling any task I was assigned to - nobody had ever stimulated me with a problem that would take more than a few hours of hard work to solve. Upon arrival at The Armidale School I was told that it would take my team days to solve the problem given to us. I instinctively decided that this was my opportunity to beat all the other teams and solve the problem quickly with my team mates.
However, I was faced with a problem requiring such heavy thought that my team mates and I often found ourselves so perplexed by the very intricately woven web of the problem, all we could do was sit and think for hours in silence.
This challenged me like I had never before been challenged. The whole Camp was a new learning experience that I had never before even touched upon. The Camp opened me up to new ideas in the way of problem solving, forensic science, teamwork and what an Australian court was really like. . . . . . . . . . . . . I did not find my experience from this camp easy to forget . . . . . . . . this camp teaches you what you will probably never learn anywhere else - and you have fun while you are learning too."
Katherine may be exaggerating just a little when she claims to have sat for hours in silence, but she puts her finger on the point that 99% of campers would agree with; the Forensic Camp is very different from anything else you have experienced. It is a very powerful learning experience and its great fun.