Fort Vale High’s science symposium, featuring Stephen Hawking, has encountered an unexpected problem: the answer system is producing material that does not correspond to the students’ submitted questions.

Questions were collected on floppy disks. The discrepancy leaves an unresolved interval between a student submitting a file and an answer appearing through the school’s system.

Private investigator Wong Gai is pursuing a different connection. The name Hawking has drawn his attention to Tony Hawk, skateboarders and local promoters. Gai considers the overlap in names worth investigating.

The department’s records notice concerns the disks and their labels. It asks that original files be kept intact and that people distinguish the files they submitted from the replies they saw.

Gai has also noticed that a name on a label may not describe the contents. For now, he sees that as part of a larger theory involving wheels and sponsorship.

The Tribune has no finding on who altered the material. Our school-file follow-up explains the gap between submission and display, without identifying a suspect.