Tuesday, March 7th marked the first visit of polygraph expert Pam Rushton to Lambert High forensic classes. The guest speaker was able to showcase how she can distinguish between a truth and a lie.

Pam Rushton was able to provide an engaging experience for the forensic students. By interviewing volunteers that were hooked up to a breath analysis tool, she was able to establish what the body was like when asked base-line questions; The progression of the interview process gave insight to the physiological changes the body undergoes when a person is telling a lie.

Forensics student Jordan Smith recalls the guest speaker as “engaging” and “entertaining” Considering that this guest speaker was not only able to show how her interviewing techniques worked, pulling students into the demonstration made it even more “realistic”. Brittany Tigue, forensics teacher, expressed how she thought that students were “very interested in how the process worked”. She further details how students get a more detailed explanation that goes beyond the concepts talked about in class as students were able to “connect” the cases illustrated by the speaker to observations and experiences that occur outside of the classroom.