2017 Finals Results

The Woburn Challenge 2016-17 on-site finals was a great success! This year, we witnessed 10 schools battle it out for the title of Woburn Challenge champion. In the end, Jason Yuen and William Wen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School came out on top of the senior and junior divisions respectively. We truly hope that you enjoyed tackling all the problems which we have so carefully prepared with love. Thank you to all the helping hands that made this event possible, as well as contestants and teachers alike, who stayed with us through to the end of the season.

The senior division prizewinners are:

  1. Jason Yuen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($250)
  2. Brian Chau of Woburn Collegiate Institute ($200)
  3. Joey Yu of Thornhill Secondary School ($150)

The junior division prizewinners are:

  1. William Wen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($150)
  2. William Fung and Sunny Lan of Richmond Hill High School ($100)
  3. Jeffrey Gao and Richard Yi of William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute ($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 are now posted here: woburnchallenge.com/past-contests

Round 4 Problems, Solutions, and Results are Available!

Thank you for joining us for the final online round of the year! We thought the problems for this round were tough but fair. There were several perfect scores in both divisions despite how challenging the problems have become. Superb! Congratulations to Brian Chau from Woburn, along with Justin Pu from William Lyon Mackenzie High for winning the senior and junior divisions respectively.

The senior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Brian Chau of Woburn Collegiate Institute ($200)
  2. Leo Feng of Vincent Massey Secondary School ($100)
  3. Arielle Shannon of University of Toronto Schools ($50)
  4. Zixiang Zhou of University Heights Public School ($50)
  5. William Wen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($50)

The junior division prizewinners for this round are:

  1. Justin Pu of William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute ($50)
  2. Allan Xu of Woburn Collegiate Institute ($25)
  3. Arsh Raza of William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute ($25)

Congratulations again! These prizes will be distributed as Visa gift cards, and we will be contacting your teachers shortly about sending them out! 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.

The date and location of the Woburn Challenge on-site finals will be released in the middle of next week, when the invitations will also be sent out. Be on the lookout!

See the full contest results.

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!

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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