The students were at The Armidale School this week, refining the mock scenarios that will be put in place at this year’s TAS Forensic Science Camp to be held from July 15-19.

TAS student Kade Stanley and camp co-director Hudson McAllister will oversee the event including logistics such as catering and activities.

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“Most of them attended last year’s camp as Year 8 detectives and have returned to set the scenarios as Camp Controllers.

Then there were a few of us a year older again, who basically run the whole camp,” said 

“While the controllers have been working on their scenarios remotely since October, the opportunity to meet up again face to face generated energy and boosted morale,” he said.

Also on hand as senior managers were Emma McGrath from Newcastle and Carly Kundle from Ipswich who helped the controllers refine their crimes, each one to be investigated by four crime task forces.

For controller Frank Perrottet it was good to springboard ideas with others.

“It’s a great experience to solve a crime and do the scientific tests to find your culprit, and really wanted to have the opportunity to come back at his year and pass that on,” he said.

“We started by writing a crime brief, which is the basic idea and then breaking it down from that – each event within the scenario. Developing the characters, then coming up with motives and ‘evidence’ that the campers will need to test to find their criminal.”

Last year’s camp attracted 90 students from 28 schools in NSW, Queensland, ACT and the Northern Territory.