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Michael Bendok and his friend Samuel Steiner —12-year-old seventh graders at Phoenix Country Day School — were looking for something to do that would contribute to the community.
Steiner, whose brother has a rare disease, figured they could raise money for rare disease research. They added a couple of other friends to the team — Matthew Linhart and Xander Black.
They chose to raise money for the Translational Genomics Research Institute, a nonprofit research group based in Phoenix that includes…