Investigating crime scenarios

Students from local primary schools around the Peninsula district attended an enrichment day hosted at Brisbane Water Secondary College Umina campus on Tuesday, May 17.

With a theme of criminal investigation, a team comprising of primary school students and mentors spent the day at the Umina campus laboratories investigating four crime scenarios.

"I enjoyed using the ink-pads and finding out who the criminal was", said Kristy Rodgers of Empire Bay Public School.

"I enjoyed all the detective work with the mentors," said Lobelia Laycock from Ettalong Public School.

"I liked experimenting with different substances in test tubes," said Blake Stevens-Hofer from Empire Bay Public School

Students honed their problem-solving skills and participated in hands-on experiments including chromatography, finger printing analysis and "suspicious liquid" testing.

Newsletter, 24 May 2011 Colin Wallis, Ettalong Public School