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🏅Learn Science Olympiad Forensics from a National Competitor!!

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11 sessions

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This series ended on October 28, 2025. All 1:1 and group chats related to this series are disabled 7 days after the last session.

About

Welcome! Do you want to participate in a virtual forensics lab? What about learning about why acids like HCl (Hydrochloric Acid) will react with bases specifically? Well then, you're in the right place!

My name is Daniel Chen. I have participated in science olympiad since middle school, and first competed at the national competition as a high school freshman after making it onto my school's varsity team. I made it off of three events, fossils, EV, and forensics! Although I have done well in fossils, I am more passionate and excited about forensics, which is why I am teaching this course!

This workshop will consist of at least 18 total sessions, going into most school years. Each session we will cover a specific topic of forensics, from powders to fibers to fingerprints.

Sessions will be held each week on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 5:30 PM EST. Sessions will typically be held to be about 1 hour long although I will usually be perfectly fine with going over if we need to cover some more material, or if there are questions.

Attendance is all up to you! I understand that school can be very stressful, and the mandatory attendance is not ideal. While it is 100% your choice for how you would like to attend sessions, keep in mind that lacking knowledge in some specific parts can be difficult to keep learning down the course, so I would recommend attending the sessions as much as possible.

Here is a full outline of the list of topics we will cover:
Powders
Plastics
Fibers
Hairs
Chromatography
Mass Spectrometry
Fingerprints
DNA
Glass
Entomology
Blood
Seeds and Pollen
Tracks and Soil
Bullet Striations
Analysis
Cheat sheet making
Test Strategies and Planning

Note that some of the topics may require more than one day to fully teach and understand, and that more sessions will be added as the series commences to accommodate for the following topics.

Of course, this course will be very comprehensive, which is why, as science olympiad also allows, we will be making our very own cheat sheet! A cheat sheet, for those who don't know, is a standard letter size paper filled to the brim with information that science olympiad allows competitors to bring and use on tests! When we make our very own cheat sheet, we will pack it with vasts amount of information; for reference, my cheat sheet is currently about size 3.5-4.

Video recordings of lab demonstrations may also be shown later on in the course.

I hope you enjoy your stay at this Science Olympiad Forensics course, and I wish you the best of luck, detective!



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Hi! I'm Daniel, an upcoming sophomore who has taken part in math competitions such as AMC8/10 before but have found my main passion and interest in chemistry. If you have any questions or things you would like to discuss about chemistry, feel free to DM me!

Sessions

✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY

There is no proper attendance policy, although it is highly recommended that students attend as many sessions as possible for the best learning experience and effect!

SESSION 1

12

Aug

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Tue 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM UTCAug 12, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM UTC

Powders
SESSION 2

19

Aug

SESSION 2

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Tue 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM UTCAug 19, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM UTC

Class 2 - Powders: Solubility Test, pH Tests, Lugol's Iodine, and Hydrochloric Acid
SESSION 3

2

Sep

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCSep 2, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 3 - Powders: Sodium Hydroxide Reagent, Conductivity, Physical Characteristics, Benedicts
SESSION 4

9

Sep

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCSep 9, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 4-Powders: Physical Characteristics, Practice, Practice, Practice!
SESSION 5

16

Sep

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCSep 16, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 4-Powders: Physical Characteristics, Practice, Practice, Practice!
SESSION 6

23

Sep

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCSep 23, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 6-Powders: Physical Characteristics, Practice, Practice, Practice!

SESSION 7

30

Sep

SESSION 7

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCSep 30, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 7-Plastics: Introduction, Flame Test, Density Test, Condensation and Addition Polymers
SESSION 8

7

Oct

SESSION 8

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCOct 7, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 7-Plastics: Introduction, Flame Test, Density Test, Condensation and Addition Polymers

SESSION 9

14

Oct

SESSION 9

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCOct 14, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 8-Plastics: Implications, Other plastics, Introduction to fibers
SESSION 10

21

Oct

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCOct 21, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 10-Plastics: Implications, Other plastics, Introduction to fibers

SESSION 11

28

Oct

SESSION 11

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Tue 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCOct 28, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Class 11-Fibers: Identification practice, flame test, key characteristics, types of fibers

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Aug 12 - Oct 28

12 weeks

60 mins

/ session

SCHEDULE

Tuesdays

10:00PM