PHYSICS ANATOMY PHOTONICS FORENSICS
Mr. Mark Kondracky
mailto:kondrackym@plainfieldschools.org
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Ken Zercie from the State Forensics Lab in Meriden made presentations to Plainfield’s Forensics classes, and to interested students. The visit was arranged by Pam Bessette, school to career counselor. In his talks, Mr. Zercie stressed that what you see on CSI, is Hollywood’s version of Forensics. In the real world of Forensics, crimes might take 26 years to solve not the hour you see on T.V. Also as a Forensic scientist you would have to work as a team member, and be prepared to go to school for the rest of your career because the field is always incorporating new science. Forensic science borrows techniques from Chemistry Physics and Biology, so a strong background in these fields is necessary. Students should understand that if they major in Forensics, that there would be job limitations, however if they majored in the basic sciences (Chemistry Physics and Biology), they could always go into Forensics afterwards. In his presentation, Mr. Zercie spoke about crime reconstruction. He presented photographic evidence from the Martha Moxley case, and explained that students need to be curious and ask questions to reconstruct what happened at various crime scenes.
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Three Rivers Offering
First Photonics Tech-Prep Agreement in CT
Students will earn college credit for optics, math, physics, and English communications, and will be able to start at Three Rivers Community College with up to one semester completed. Three Rivers has technical program articulation agreements with twenty area high schools, with photonics being the eleventh program added to the list. Physics teacher Mark Kondracky teaches the photonics courses at Plainfield High School. He uses equipment provided for this program, as well as equipment and teaching aids originally provided for PHOTON, a recent New England-wide science initiative that trained high school teachers in the teaching of optics. Kondracky also speaks to middle school students about physics, and serves as advisor for a student photonics club which has joined Three Rivers students on trips to worksites and conferences for laser-optic technology. The program coordinator for Three Rivers’ Photonics degree, Judy Donnelly, believes that with programs like this, “the sky’s the limit.” Her students have gone on to degrees in engineering and physics at various universities in Connecticut and around the country, including University of Arizona at Tucson, which Judy describes as “the Mecca for optics.” Photonics is the practical application of light technology. Photonics-related technologies play a critical role in manufacturing, medical, sensing, telecommunications, homeland security, and defense technologies. Three Rivers Community College offers Connecticut's only photonics engineering technology associate degree. For more
information on Photonics programs at Three Rivers Community College, please
contact Judy Donnelly, program coordinator at 885-2353 or by e-mail at:
jdonnelly@trcc.commnet.edu
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