Fake Body Found

A PBS project leaves other students questioning

You may have seen a girl laying on the floor upstairs at school, but don’t worry, it’s not what it looks like at first glance. Many people took a fright on the first day of school when walking upstairs and seeing a dead girl on the floor, but now realizing she wasn’t real.

The stuffed clothing laying on the floor has a name and a background. Her name is Anna Garcia, and she’s a part of the year long investigation in the Principles of Biomedical Science class.

In the PBS class, each student is required to figure out the death of Anna. They will use evidence, biopsies, and reports made about her death, students will have to determine how she died.

“They’re going to get more and more evidence throughout the year,” Mrs. Strathman said, one of the two PBS teachers. “Then in the spring they will receive a full autopsy report that they will use to come up with a theory on how she died.”

Every year the class does the same type of project. The story of Anna stays the same but how she dies changes each year.

This is the first year having a realistic body around the school. In the past three years, there had just been a taped body on the floor.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Tim Leach said, senior at Liberty.

The PBS course is a weighted class, and if you’re looking to challenge yourself in school, this is the class for you. Think you can solve the case?