Next Contest on Sunday, April 9!

Hello Challengers!

Our 4th and final online round of the season will be held on Sunday, April 9, 2017 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET.  If you participated in the previous online rounds, please use the same WCI PEG Judge username and there's no need to register again.  

If you are new to the Woburn Challenge, please read more about the contest details and register to participate!  You can visit http://wcipeg.com/contests to check out some of the past contests and familiarize yourself with submitting solutions to our online grading environment (the PEG Judge). It is also a good idea to try and solve some of the problems on the WCIPEG website in order to sharpen your problem-solving prowess!

Stay tuned!

Round 3 Problems, Solutions, and Results are Available!

Hello Challengers!

Thank you for joining us in round 3! This contest proved to be one of our toughest yet, with the third problem of the senior division proven to be especially perplexing due to its ad-hoc nature. You may also have noticed that we decided to provide a kick to the junior division’s difficulty. The reason of course, is to keep all of you (even juniors!) on your toes and habitually challenged! This time, we witnessed only one perfect scorer in the senior division and none in the junior. Congratulations to Jason Yuen from Pierre Elliott Trudeau High, along with Arsh Raza from William Lyon Mackenzie High for winning the senior and junior divisions respectively.

The senior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Jason Yuen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($200)
  2. Joey Yu of Thornhill Secondary School ($100)
  3. William Wen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($50)
  4. Leo Feng of Vincent Massey Secondary School ($50)
  5. Brian Chau of Woburn Collegiate Institute ($50)

The junior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Arsh Raza of William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute ($50)
  2. Justin Pu of William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute ($25)
  3. Henning Jiang of Vincent Massey Secondary School ($25)

Congratulations! These prizes will be distributed as Visa gift cards, and we will be contacting your teachers shortly about sending them out. Remember to keep on practicing, since we still have many prizes in the remaining online round, as well as the invitational finals! Problems and solutions for this round are now posted at: woburnchallenge.com/past-contests. Once again, we thank all of you who participated, as well as teachers for sharing this with your students.

Good luck for next round, and be on the lookout for the on-site finals in May!

Click here to see the full contest results.

February Contest

Hello Challengers!

Our 3rd online round of the season will be held on Sunday, February 19, 2017 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET.  If you participated in the previous online rounds, please use the same WCI PEG Judge username and there's no need to register again.  

If you are new to the Woburn Challenge, please read more about the contest details and register to participate!  You can visit http://wcipeg.com/contests to check out some of the past contests and familiarize yourself with submitting solutions to our online grading environment (the PEG Judge). It is also a good idea to try and solve some of the problems on the WCIPEG website in order to sharpen your problem-solving prowess!

Stay tuned!

Round 2 Problems, Solutions, and Results are Available!

Hello Challengers!

Thank you for joining us for round 2 of this year’s Woburn Challenge! As you could probably tell, we are cranking up the difficulty as the 2016-17 contest season progresses. While we expect you to be constantly practicing, we are also working to improve the contest experience from our end. In particular, we are aware that the judge was slow to provide live feedback due to the quantity of submissions being queued. In future rounds, improvements to the site and server will be made to help prevent this issue. This time, we witnessed three perfect scores in both divisions. Congratulations to Woburn students Allan Xu and Brian Chau for winning the junior and senior divisions respectively

The senior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Brian Chau of Woburn Collegiate Institute ($200)
  2. William Wen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($100)
  3. Jason Yuen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($50)
  4. Zixiang Zhou of University Heights Public School ($50)
  5. Andrew Lin of University Hill Secondary School ($50)

The junior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Allan Xu of Woburn Collegiate Institute ($50)
  2. Justin Pu of William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute ($25)
  3. William Fung of Richmond Hill High School ($25)

Congratulations! These prizes will be distributed as Visa gift cards, and we will be contacting your teachers shortly about sending them out. Remember that we will have many prizes in the remaining rounds of the year, so keep on practicing! Problems and solutions for this round are now posted at: woburnchallenge.com/past-contests. Once again, we thank all of you who participated, as well as teachers for sharing this with your students.

Click here to see the full contest results.

December Contest

Hello Challengers!

Our 2nd online round of the season will be held on Sunday, December 11, 2016 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET.  If you participated in our 1st online round in October, please use the same WCI PEG Judge username and there's no need to register again.  

If you are new to the Woburn Challenge, please read more about the contest details and register to participate!  You can visit http://wcipeg.com/contests to check out some of the past contests and familiarize yourself with submitting solutions to our online grading environment (the PEG Judge). It is also a good idea to try and solve some of the problems on the WCIPEG website in order to sharpen your problem-solving prowess!

Stay tuned!

Round 1 Problems, Solutions and Results are Available!

Hello Challengers!

Thank you for joining us in this year’s Woburn Challenge, new and returning participants alike! We look forward to challenging you again in our second year back from our long-due revival. Hopefully, the spooky problems of this round were able to jitter your programming prowess back into shape for the upcoming contest season. We witnessed several perfect scores in the junior division and a single perfect score in the senior division by Jason Yuen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High. It looks like many of you have been practicing over the summer – fantastic!

The senior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Jason Yuen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($200)
  2. Victor Rong of Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute ($100)
  3. William Wen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($50)
  4. Andrew Lin of University Hill Secondary School ($50)
  5. Arielle Shannon of University of Toronto Schools ($50)

The junior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Allan Xu of Woburn Collegiate Institute ($50)
  2. Anish Mahto of Turner Fenton Secondary School ($25)
  3. Joey Zhong of University of Toronto Schools ($25)

Congratulations! These prizes will be distributed as Visa gift cards, and we will be contacting your teachers shortly about sending them out. Remember that we will have many prizes in the remaining rounds of the year, so keep on practicing! Problems and solutions for this round are now posted at: woburnchallenge.com/past-contests. Once again, we thank all of you who participated, as well as teachers for sharing this with your students.

Click here to see the full contest results.

October Contest

Hello Challengers!

Our 1st online round of the 2016-17 season will be held on Sunday, October 16, 2016 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET.  

Please read more about the contest details and register to participate!  (If you participated last year, you must complete this year's registration form using the link on the registration page but you can continue using the same PEG Judge username.)

If you are new to the Woburn Challenge, you can visit http://wcipeg.com/contests to check out some of the past contests and familiarize yourself with submitting solutions to our online grading environment (the PEG Judge). It is also a good idea to try and solve some of the problems on the WCIPEG website in order to sharpen your problem-solving prowess!

Don't miss it!

2016 Finals Results

Thank you all who joined us for the Woburn Challenge 2015-16 on-site finals this afternoon! After an unbelievably tight race, Richmond Green Secondary School managed to edge out the valiant competition from Don Mills Collegiate Institute (by a mere 1 point within the last 6 minutes of the contest!) to ultimately secure 1st place in the senior division. Meanwhile, Thornhill Secondary School clinched their own champion spot in the junior division. Though this was arguably our toughest contest of the year, we still believe that there was something there for everyone.

The senior division prizewinners are:

  1. Bill Zheng, Josh Jung, and Henry Gao of Richmond Green Secondary School ($250)
  2. Timothy Li, Patrick Au, and Kevin Wang of Don Mills Collegiate Institute ($200)
  3. Jason Yuen and William Wen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($150)
  4. Jason Kuo and Robert Cummings of A. Y. Jackson Secondary School ($75)

The junior division prizewinners are:

  1. Max Li and Alexander Kursell of Thornhill Secondary School ($150)
  2. Kevin Wang and Saswata Gupta of Glenforest Secondary School ($100)
  3. Alexander Shah and Callum Moseley of Richmond Hill High School ($75)

Congratulations! We would love to hear your feedback about how to improve for next year, so please send them to woburnchallenge@gmail.com. That said, we hope you enjoyed the last round of the season and look forward to bringing you many more exciting challenges in the years to come!

Full results, problems, and solutions will be posted shortly to this page: woburnchallenge.com/past-contests

Round 4 Problems, Solutions and Results are Available!

What a great first year of the Woburn Challenge relaunch! Thank you to everyone for participating in the online contests and helping us revive this meaningful computer science tradition. We hope you found our problems to be both fun and challenging. For the future, we hope to incorporate all the feedback you have sent us to make these challenges an even more engaging experience. Finally, we ask you to please help spread the word about the contest during the next season. 

The senior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Timothy Li of Don Mills Collegiate Institute ($200)
  2. Jason Yuen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($100) 
  3. Ahmed Sabie of Glenforest Secondary School ($50)
  4. Jeffrey Xiao of University of Toronto Schools ($50)
  5. Bill Zheng of Richmond Green Secondary School ($50)

The junior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Max Li of Thornhill Secondary School ($50)
  2. John Phillips of Lisgar Collegiate Institute ($25)
  3. Alexander Kursell of Thornhill Secondary School ($25)

Congratulations! These prizes will be distributed as Visa gift cards, and we will be contacting your teachers shortly about sending them out. Remember that we will have many prizes in the finals as well as for next year, so keep on practicing!

Click here to see the full contest results.

April Contest

Hello Challengers!

Our 4th and final online round of the season will be held on Friday, April 8th, 2016 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm EST.  If you participated in any of the previous online rounds, please use the same WCI PEG Judge username for the 4th online round.  There's no need to register again.  

If you are new to the Woburn Challenge, please read more about the contest details and register to participate!  You can visit http://wcipeg.com/contests to check out some of the past contests and familiarize yourself with submitting solutions to our online grading environment (the PEG Judge). It is also a good idea to try and solve some of the problems on the WCIPEG website in order to sharpen your problem-solving prowess!

Stay tuned!