Forensics 101

Exploring Science Through Mysteries

PO Box 681691 Charlotte, NC 28216 Phone: 980.355.9313 Fax: 704-719-4011

Our Mission

Our mission is to not only educate, but to stimulate a sense of excitement, and encourage continuous learning and achievement in science by providing high quality, hands-on forensic science opportunities through our science centers, mobile crime scene science units, and our mobile museums.

Mission: The mission of Forensics 101, Inc is to not only educate, but to stimulate a sense of excitement, and encourage continuous learning and achievement in science by providing high quality, hands-on forensic science opportunities through our science centers, mobile crime scene science units, and our mobile museums.

Forensics 101 uses forensic science as the foundation for science enrichment in order to build confidence, competence, and interest in science for youth, teens, and adults. To provide assistance to teachers, schools, and other nonprofit organizations (such as libraries and museums) with interests in pursuing and/or developing forensic science programs. This assistance will contain but will not be limited to:

Science learning centers
Offer seminars/ workshops/ trainings to educators and facilitators to incorporate forensic science lessons into curriculum
Provide educators and organizations with science materials, supplies, and curriculum.
Provide information and guidance to students that plan to or are currently pursuing an academic career in science, with a focus in forensics.

Our goal is to inspire lifelong learning and achievement in science by involving students, teachers, schools, and families with standardized, high quality science and technology learning experiences.

History: Forensics 101, Inc was established in Charlotte in 2007 as a way of introducing forensic science to the nonscientist for the advancement of science education. The company grew over the course of that year and expanded to several cities, including Washington, DC, Atlanta, and Raleigh/ Durham. While this expansion was a huge success, Executive Director Christina Brooks felt that it was more important to reach more of the local community and engage them in hands-on science through forensics. The corporation was never concerned with making a profit. Our number one concern has always been the advancement of science education for youth, teens, and adults. The corporation was converted to a nonprofit organization (what it should have always been) in January 2009 and underwent a temporary hiatus. The 'new' Forensics 101, Inc emerged in Mach 2010 better than ever.

Meet the Founder and Executive Director:
Christina Brooks is a bioarchaeologist/ forensic anthropologist in Charlotte, North Carolina (serving both North and South Carolina). She is a professor at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC (click here to view her faculty website) and an adjunct lecturer at UNC Charlotte.

She received her undergraduate degree from Howard University in biological anthropology with a minor in Chemistry and her graduate degree from the University of Tennessee (home of the legendary "Body Farm" and Dr Bill Bass). At the University of Tennessee, Christina focused her studies on Trauma Pattern Analysis in skeletal remains. Her current research interests are Cemetery archaeology, Forensic anthropology, Skeletal trauma, African American bio-history, African American archaeology.

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