PROGRAM REGISTRATION: After you have your room assignment, come over to the Road Scholar table to register with the program staff and pick up your arrival packet which we'll review during our orientation session before dinner.
ORIENTATION: Begins before dinner. We'll have an overview of the program ahead and review the up-to-date schedule, responsibilities, safety guidelines, emergency procedures, any other administrative issues, and answer your questions. Please be aware that local circumstances may require adjusting program elements. In the event of changes, we will notify you as quickly as possible. We appreciate your understanding. Dinner: Dinner at hotel
Menus are contracted for the program and are designed to offer balanced, healthy meals for the participants.Evening: CROSSING POINTS: Participants and grandchildren introduce themselves to the rest of the group.
Enjoy the remainder of the evening getting to know your fellow participants and discovering what you share beyond a love of lifelong learning.Lodging: Holiday Inn Buena Park HotelMeals Included: Dinner
Crime Scene Investigator Staggs will help YOU detect the truths and un-truths of CSI television shows.
CLASS: Bring on the Bugs!
Forensic entomologist Faulkner will show how insects can tell us when the crime was committed.
Lunch: Lunch outdoors at hotel on the Gazebo PatioAfternoon: CLASS AND HANDS ON EXPERIENCE: Lifting Evidence from the Scene of the Crime
Try your hand at lifting fingerprints. Dinner: Dinner at hotelEvening: CLASS: Documenting the Crime Scene
Sharpen that pencil and focus that lens---document the crime scene through notes, sketches and photography.Lodging: Holiday Inn Buena Park HotelMeals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Board the bus at the hotel for a field trip to the Orange County Crime Lab.Lunch: LunchAfternoon: CLASS: Wipe, Swipe or Castoff?
A forensic scientist will teach you how to read the bloody crime scene.
CLASS AND HANDS ON EXPERIENCE: "Making a Good Impression"
Learn how to read other clues left behind on the ground.Dinner: Dinner at hotelEvening: Optional mystery-related movieLodging: Holiday Inn Buena Park HotelMeals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
CLASS: Suspects on Screen
Students help Captain Staggs recreate a suspect from memory on the computer screen.
After class, board the bus for lunch and field trip to the Police Historical Museum.Lunch: Picnic lunch in historic Elysian Park
Elysian Park is the city's oldest public park and, at 575-acres, the second largest after Griffith Park. It is home to numerous historic sites, including the Los Angeles Police Academy and Barlow Hospital, that are linked by miles of walking trails.
After lunch, board the bus for the afternoon field trip.Afternoon: FIELD TRIP: POLICE HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Explore two floors of uniforms, guns, photographs, and other items that trace the history of the LAPD. Try out the jail cells, don't miss the awesome handcuff display, and climb into armored police vans in the back parking lot. Don't forget your camera to take a mug shot of your loved one.Dinner: Dinner at hotelLodging: Holiday Inn Buena Park HotelMeals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Use newly found CSI skills to extract evidence from the 'crime scene'.
Prior to the program, participants are randomly divided into small groups and assigned to a mock crime scene time slot. Each group will visit the mock crime scene in 2-1/2 hours blocks of time throughout the day, beginning at 8:30 am. Therefore, Free Time on Thursday will depend upon which mock crime scene time slot you are assigned.
Enjoy Free Time when not assigned to the Mock Crime Scene.Lunch: Lunch on your ownAfternoon: HANDS ON EXPERIENCE CONTINUED Mock Crime SceneDinner: Final dinner and mock crime scene evaluation!Lodging: Holiday Inn Buena Park HotelMeals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
HOTEL CHECK OUT: This concludes the program. We hope you have enjoyed our CSI Intergenerational program and will join us for other rewarding programs in the future. Best wishes for all your journeys!Meals Included: Breakfast
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Buena Park, CA 90622-5009
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