Just then the judges arrived at their booth. Bella thought they looked impressed as they took notes.

As soon as the judges had moved on, all eyes turned to Bella.

“How did you get it to work?” asked Naomi.

Bella smiled and showed her teammates the string of commands. “I realized that we had added several unnecessary steps to the equation. It occurred to me that we might be more successful if we cut them out and streamlined it. Sometimes less is more,” she added.

“Nice work,” said Naomi with a genuine smile.

Now hopefully less would be more to the judges, who were already totaling everyone’s scores.