 Today we are hosting our very first Denver Forensic Science Day. We are so so excited that you guys could be our first students here. It is a hands-on immersive experience for DPS middle school students to come and explore the field of forensic science. The real work in police work, a lot of it falls back on science. The work that's done in this building really helps us. The crime lab staff partnered with the Denver Police Museum. So much of what young people understand to be the function of police comes from television. And today they're finding out that those answers don't necessarily come in a one-hour special. While I am a detective, I'm not the detective today. You guys are. They're getting an opportunity to investigate some mock crime scenes. There was a robbery of bank robbery. The bank robber was a tall white male with a dark beard and a mustache. And we have to try and solve, like, who did it. So let's get some gloves on, get your notes ready. We're just going to observe and document what we see. You guys come on in. What we first did was take pictures of evidence and look around to find evidence. Look at that cigarette. There's a fingerprint right there. Oh, there's bullets! Then we started, like, finding fingerprints and gathering evidence. So we'll just start from one end and work our way to the back end, alright? The next stage will be what are the analyses are they going to do? Fingerprints, DNA, footwear analysis, all the different types of sciences that we do here in the crime lab. I'm sure you get that written down. We want to ignite their excitement of science and to be able to see that it's fun, it's engaging. It was tiring, but it was fun. It was a challenge, honestly. We really just want the kids to be able to see in real life what forensic scientists look like. I am a person of color. I am an immigrant. We understand that in science, representation is really important. And we want the kids to see that the forensic scientists look like them, maybe their neighbor or their mom, or maybe look exactly like them. We've now taken really good notes about everything that we've seen inside. I feel like if I weren't to be a doctor, I'd probably be this job. There's definitely lots of fingerprints. I think it's pretty cool and it's honestly very fun.