US Naval Sea Cadets forensics course.
US Naval Sea Cadet Homeland Security detail. The youth of our country learning our core values of courage, honor, and commitment.
In June of 2009, D&N Scientific, assisted by Chicago State University's Dr. Rob Richter and Westminster College's Dr. Helen Boylan and Mallory Lichwa (a recent graduate and student of Dr. Boylan), held a week long forensics course for the Homeland Security module at the US Naval Sea Cadet summer camp. A big thank you to Rob and Mallory for helping to teach spectroscopy and scientific methods to cadets. Also to Helen for judging the cadet's presentations; and to Mettler Toledo, Columbus, Ohio for supplying top-of-the-line XP205 analytical balances for use by the students. Spectrometers were supplied by D&N Scientific and Chicago State University. Dan Willoughby of D&N Scientific also provided his expertise in training the cadets in spectroscopy.
High School age Cadets from OH, MI, PA, and TX were given two simulated scenarios - to identify suspects from an "unexploded pipe bomb" by analyzing materials "found" vs materials comprising the pipe bomb. The second project was simulated identification of a white powder mailed to a government facility.
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