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Tue 5 Feb, 2008 07:38 pm
Quote:In his senior year, he took top prize in an international science and engineering fair for designing a program to analyze and sort DNA patterns.
Was it a science fair organized especially for designing a program to analyze and sort DNA patterns?
Or was it a science fair for any inventions, and the boy happened to win first prize for the program he designed?
I would guess the latter, since student science fairs are generally open-ended and welcome a variety of projects. It depends on the context, of course, but I think most readers of this sentence would would interpret it this way as well. Still, you are correct to perceive that it is not entirely clear.
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