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The other process called “simulated annealing” starts with a random solution and works at making it better. At first there is a rather good chance that it will be worse, rather than better. But the better the solution, the more likely another effort will improve it, Jim explained.
He said his computer efforts were better than the reports in the research he reviewed.
Caleb Proper won Best Project in the Junior Division. His project involved measuring dew and frost.
He set out a group of trays during the day and overnight. Some were covered with black plastic; others were not. The trays covered with black plastic gathered nearly twice as much dew or frost overnight as the ones without the black plastic — 6.2 grams on average, compared with 3.6.
Miss Wingate’s fourth grade class won the award for Best Classroom Exploratory Division. Students in the class did individual projects, but the work of the class as a whole was judged, rather than
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