Hands-on, non-stop activities in this program including fingerprint casting, footprint molding and analysis, blood spatter examination using projectile physics, and much more. Forensics is an active and high energy program. Students have the unique opportunity to investigate mock crime scenes, conduct mock autopsies, and even analyze insect activity on specimens that have been left outside. Rich Fox has been featured on NPR’s The Poisoner’s Handbook, identified remains at the World Trade Center, and teaches classes that have waitlisted up to a hundred students. Last year, students visited the bomb squad at Logan International Airport, where they learned about the process of identifying suspicious packages, the training of bomb sniffing dogs, and cases in which explosives have had to be diffused.

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Residential students at this site must be rising tenth graders or above. Rising ninth graders may be considered for our residential or day program on a case by case basis.

This is a competitive admissions summer research program designed for teens.