For Immediate Release: July 23, 2009

Contact: Annette Barnette
Public Relations & Marketing Director
Glenville State College
Glenville, WV
(304) 462-4115

Glenville, WV – Glenville State College’s Criminal Justice Camp was a tremendous success this year bringing thirty-four eager to learn high school students to GSC’s campus July 20th-24th. Criminal Justice Department Chair Dr. Jami Myers was proud to host students from more than half the state and one student from Georgia. “This camp is a great recruiting tool for GSC. Many of the campers were so thrilled with last year’s camp they returned this year. We even had former campers pursuing the now Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice degree this past year at Glenville State College,” said Myers.

The camp is sponsored by a Department of Justice grant making the whole week free to all participants. The students stayed on campus in the residence hall and ate their meals in Mollohan’s Restaurant. They spent their days in classrooms and labs receiving a crash course of the GSC Criminal Justice Department. Classes included: crime scene photography

and measurement, fingerprinting, blood drop and casting analysis, and also hair and fiber analysis.

Katrena Matzall, a tenth grader at Hampshire High School in Hampshire County, said, “I really enjoyed this camp. I learned so many things I didn’t know about Criminal Justice. I found the fingerprinting the most interesting because they are something that is different on everyone and is the easiest way for an investigator to find his suspect.”

Once the students mastered all the skills, they put the clues and evidence together in order to solve a crime scene investigation scenario set up in GSC’s Crime Scene House. “Working in the house with the dummy’s and staging made the crime scene much more realistic than what we could imagine in the classroom. Using all the tools we learned and putting everything together made this camp an unforgettable experience,” said Jordan Smith, an eleventh grader at Tyler Consolidated High School in Tyler County.

For more information on future GSC Criminal Justice Camps or the Glenville State College Criminal Justice Department, contact Myers at Jami.Myers@glenville.edu or at (304) 462-6281.