For Oakland high school students entering their senior year who may be interested in law enforcement and investigations, Merritt College has a great opportunity for you to experience it first-hand by offering CSI: OAKLAND: the First Annual Crime Scene Investigation Summer Camp for Oakland Unified School District high school students, an interactive camp where you will learn about law enforcement, crime scene investigations, and forensics. The camp will be held for two weeks from July 20 to July 1, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Students must register for the camp and will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis by emailing the application to acerda@peralta.edu or dropping it off at Building S, Room 438. Click The program is being taught by faculty from the college’s Administration of Justice and Biosciences programs, the California Highway Patrol (MAIT), the Oakland Fire Department, and local law enforcement agencies. You will gain a broad in-depth introduction to the field of criminal investigation by experiencing the many steps of crime scene investigation from the first responders, the documentation of the crime scene, the photographing and measurement, and through testifying in court. This program will also introduce the students to death investigation and the many steps that are necessary in determining whether a death is accidental or homicide. At the conclusion of this course, the student will be able to identify many of the processes that a law enforcement officer must complete in order to successfully investigate crimes, and the methodologies behind them.