Madera Unified hosts 'You be the Crime Scene Investigator' summer camp for students

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A week-long summertime campy successful Madera Unified is getting students up adjacent and idiosyncratic with professionals successful instrumentality enforcement and nationalist safety.

The dependable of sirens meant the Madera Fire Department was connected campus.

The time kicked disconnected with a speedy Q&A with firefighters to assistance reply immoderate burning questions from students.

Once those questions were answered, it was clip for immoderate hands-on learning.

Third, 4th and fifth-grade students participated successful the "You Be the Crime Scene Investigator" summertime campy done the Madera Unified School District.

The week-long campy allows students similar fifth-grader Gwenyth Jones to prosecute successful activities and conscionable professionals from section instrumentality enforcement agencies and occurrence departments.

"It's been really, truly fun," Gwenyth said.

Students climbed into the cab to spot what it was similar successful the beforehand spot of a occurrence truck.

They tried connected turnouts, tested retired the hoses and checked retired the tools of the trade.

The campy is held astatine Matilda Torres High School.

Director of Expanded Learning Suzanne Dudney says this is simply a mode for students to get engaged successful schoolhouse successful a antithetic way.

"The kids are having a large time," Dudney said.

The campy is taught by precocious schoolhouse Career Technical Education teachers successful the Public Safety pathway.

The extremity is to spark a occurrence wrong students present truthful they cognize which way they'd similar to prosecute later.

"We're giving our simple students a accidental to look astatine immoderate of the antithetic vocation paths that they mightiness beryllium capable to analyse erstwhile they spell into precocious schoolhouse and mediate school," Dudney said.

The immersive acquisition convinced Gwenyth that this whitethorn beryllium a vocation she'll spell into 1 day.

"After each that, I truly deliberation being portion of that is going to beryllium astir apt fun, truthful I deliberation I benignant of privation to beryllium 1 of them erstwhile I turn up," Gwenyth said.

This was conscionable 1 of astir 40 antithetic camps that astir 3,000 students registered for successful the Madera Unified School District.

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