CSI: Cinnaminson High School

students will get a little taste of crime scene investigating, as forensic science students at will host a CSI night tonight.

This is the first year teacher Jennifer Alvarado, who started the class in 2005, will host this hands-on event.

“We wanted to bring the younger kids over to get an idea of what we do,” said Alvarado. “They see so much of it on TV, it’s an explanation for them at their level.”

Thirty-two Rush students will head over to the high school this evening and move from station to station to learn about crime scene investigation. Donning detective badges, the younger students will work with the high schoolers on fingerprinting, facial reconstruction, dental impressions and more.

They will also have time to ask questions to Alvarado.

Alvarado worked with Rush School’s Project Challenge teacher, Kimberly Kelly-Young, who teaches a forensics lesson to the PC kids.

“I love teaching this course,” Alvarado said. “The kids are really into it. One of the first things I tell them is everything you see on TV is not how it really is.”

Over the course of the year, the juniors and seniors, who can take the course as a science elective, learn how to process a crime scene, how to package evidence, how to run lab tests and how to deal with case studies.

They are building mini crime scenes and in the spring, they will do case studies and give presentations.

Alvarado hopes to hold an event with a mock crime scene in the middle of the high school courtyard next.

The Rush students will go to CSI night tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. On Nov. 30, another CSI night for students is in the works.

Stay with Patch for photos of tonight’s event.