The Woburn Challenge is a programming competition organized by high-school students of Woburn Collegiate Institute

Woburn Collegiate Institute

Woburn Collegiate Institute is a non-semestered secondary school on Ellesmere Road in the Scarborough district of Toronto. Its motto is Let the Zeal for Learning Flourish.- History :...

, in Scarborough, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. The contest is similar in structure to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is an annual multi-tiered computer programming competition among the universities of the world. The contest is sponsored by IBM. Headquartered at Baylor University, with autonomous regions on six continents, the ICPC is directed by Baylor Professor...

. In the past years, the contest has consisted of three divisions:

• Suicidal Division
• Senior Division
• Intermediate Division

Each division features 5 or 6 problems, solved by teams of 3 students in 3 hours. The level of difficulty rises from the Intermediate Division through to the Suicidal Division.

Past problems and solutions have been made available online by members of Woburn's Programming Enrichment Group (PEG).