A team of high school students won a prestigious NASA contest by creating a device to help ward off radiation exposure in space.[___]

This sentence gives the main idea in a brief form: high school students won a NASA contest for a device designed to reduce radiation exposure in space. It does not reproduce someone’s exact words, so it is not a direct quote. It condenses the information rather than restating a fuller passage in similar detail, making it a summary.

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