By Jocelyn Cote

Staff writer

Handwriting analysis, deciphering forgeries, and spending time watching NCIS are just a few of the activities enjoyed by the super sleuths of the Westford Academy Forensics Club.

Timothy Knittel, a chemistry teacher at WA, is the club’s current advisor.  He stepped up to the position last year.

“I’m looking for ways to involve myself,” said Knittel. “They needed an advisor, and they came to see me last year, and they said, ‘Can you do this?’ and I said sure.”

The club itself has been around for about five years, started by a senior who graduated from WA two years ago. Her work and resources are still in use by the club today. The club is still gaining interest this year, with only about five regular members and a few more who attend meetings now and then.

Members use much of the technology explored within the forensics class, and work together to help solve fictitious crimes and mysteries.

“You see CSI and stuff on TV and hear all about it and it’s really interesting,” said senior John Rockwood, who has been a member of Forensics club for four years. “I like how we can look at techniques for removing evidence from a scene. They’re very far out there. It’s the kind of stuff that you think couldn’t possibly exist.”

The club meets every other Wednesday in room 229 and all students are welcome, regardless of their involvement in an actual forensics class. Although it is no longer officially recognized by administration as an official club, it continues to run as long as there is interest from the student body.