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The Genome Project

1998
We hoped to teach other kids about what the Genome Project is, so when they see it mentioned in the future it will have some meaning for them. We live in a town where we see it mentioned often in the paper (because there is an arm of it at the University of Iowa here, yet we didn't have a clear picture at all about what activities the Genome Project might be doing. We thought that if we were curious about it, then other kids might be too. And besides, we were sure that Genetics is a very important field, and something that we should know more about to have lots of options open to us in deciding about our future careers (and so thought other kids might feel the same way).