The Brookside Mansion has become the scene of a crime, and we need your help finding the culprit! Everyone is a suspect. You will be asked to put your detective skills to work before the criminal strikes again. Two $500 scholarships will be offered to high school seniors intending to enroll at USF in the fall of 2025.

Schedule

8:15-8:45 a.m. Check-in

8:45 a.m. Welcome and Instructions

9:15 a.m. The game will commence

10:30 a.m. End of game and group photo in front of the mansion

10:45 a.m. Breakout sessions with various major programs

11:45 a.m. Lunch, mystery reveal with prizes, scholarship presentations

Breakout sessions

· Develop Your Own Mystery: Creating Suspects, Motives, and Means by Chelsie McCorkle, Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director

· How to Interview a Witness by Dr. Mario Baldassari, Assistant Professor of Psychology

· Medical Mayhem: See how the medical system aids both the process of Law & Order as well as the survivors of a crime in the Immersive Suite and Simulation Labs presented by Nursing, Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Social Work, Physical Therapy Assistant, Radiologic Technology, and Surgical Technology

· FULL SESSION - Can you Dig it? Help a forensic anthropologist excavate human remains and gather information from bones by Whitney Hadley-Salay, Administrative Assistant, Division of Sciences and Registered Archaeologist, and Jenny Maldonado, Assistant Professor of Biology and Clinical Lab Sciences Program Director (Limited to 12 students - Limit reached) 

· FULL SESSION - Crime Scene Analysis: Let the Evidence Tell a Story by Heather Jeffries, Assistant Professor and Director of Criminal Justice and Criminology

Student registration for this event is required. Deadline Monday, October 21st. Don’t wait to sign up! Limited space is available for this FREE event. 

For more information, contact Director of Criminal Justice and Criminology Heather Jeffries at 260-399-7700, ext. 8107 or hjeffries@sf.edu.