Forensic Science Technicians
By: Makayla Thompson 9th Hour
Basic Information About Forensic Science Technicians
- Examine physcial evidence from a crime scence
- Must have a bachelors degree
- They typically work 40 hours a week
- Run many kinds of test including DNA
- They are also revered to as criminalist
- They work in the city or sometimes in a crime laboratories
- Reconstruct the crime scence based on the results
- Earn around 43,000 dollars a year
- Sometime wear protective clothes or gear
- Use natural science to solve crimes
What you need to succeed
- Physical Science
- General Science
- Biology
- Physics
- Public Speaking
- Technical Writing
The first four classes are Scince classes that wiscareers recommend that you take if you want to be successful in this carrer. The other two classes that are outside of Scince class which are speech and technical writing. You would need to take speech because for this occupation you need to learn how to speak in front of a audience and not be nervous. You need technical writing is when you're writing a report and need to hand it to the police or whoever you have to work with so they can read what you're writing.
Marian University
- They offer women volleyball for athletes
- Another program they offer besides forencis that I would like to take is criminal justice
- They offer dorm rooms so I can live on campus
- The tuitions is pretty high it's around 26,000 per year
- Kinda far from where i live would like to stay close to home and family
- Dream collage this isn't one of my dream collages that j have my heart set on
Address: 45 S National Avenue, Fond du Lac, WI
Website: https://www.marianuniversity.edu
Carroll University
- They not only offer women volleyball but they also offer women swimming which are two of my favorite sports
- They have a good percentage of students who earned thier bachelor degree
- I could also enroll in the military program they have here which I would like to do
- The tuition is a little pricy for my taste it is around 28,000 dollars
- This school is a private school I would rather go to a public school it's just a personal preference
- It's kinda far from where l live from home and I would like to live semi close to my family and friends
Address: 100 N East Avenue, Waukesha, WI
Website: http://www.carrollu.edu
University of North Dakota
- It offers scholarships from sports such as women volleyball and swimming
- It would be out of Wisconsin so it would somewhere new to explore
- The tuition is really cheap if you live in the state
- Even though it's somewhere new to explore I would get home sick and miss my family back in Wisconsin
- The tuition is pretty high for people out to state it's around 17,000
- It doesn't offer any military training that the other two schools offered
Website: http://und.edu
The Forensics Science Foundation
Address: 410 N. 21st Street, Colorado Springs
Phone Number: ( 719 ) 636-1100
Website: http://fsf.aafs.org
American Board of Crimialist
Palmetto, FL 34220
Phone Number: 941-729-9050
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Have you ever watch the shows NCIS or Law and Order and loved it? Have you ever been interested in working in crime labs! If you said yes to any of those two questions I have the job for you a Forensic Science Technicians ( Criminalist ). They go on the crime scene and collect evidence after they go back to the crime laboratory where they reconstruct the crime scene based on the evidence to piece together what happened. Some of the evidence they have to collect is DNA, body fluids, finger prints, impressions and drugs. When they are done looking at the evidence they hand it over to the police so they can find out who committed the crime. Forensic Science Technicians typically work 40 hours each week even though that's a lot of hours it's wort it because they make a lot of money between 35 or 75 thousand dollars per year and 16 or more dollars an hour. Job seekers in state and national will find good job opportunities it is expected to grow over 9% over the next 10 years for job demand. If you are interested in becoming a Forensic Science Technicians you will need to get a bachelors degree and major in Forensics Science. Some helpful highs school courses include biology, chemistry, and human anatomical. This career is meant to help people and help make the world and better and safer place.
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- Sherlock Homes
Citations
2. "New! M.S. in Organizational Leadership." Marian University. Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2016. <https://www.marianuniversity.edu/>.
3. "The University of North Dakota." UND: University of North Dakota. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2016. <http://und.edu/>.