W.J. Blundon Contest

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Contents:

  1. General Information

  2. Registration

  3. Past Winners

  4. Past Contests


General Information

Professor W.J. Blundon was the first head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at MUN, and an avid problem solver.

(For a short biography of Professor Blundon and information on Experiences in Problem Solving, a compilation of his published solutions to a wide variety of mathematical problems, click here.)

The Blundon Contest is written each year on the same date as the CEMC Pascal, Cayley, and Fermat contests.We encourage those who was placed on the provincial honour roll in Fermat Contest last year, as well as the mathematically capable Level II students, to write the Blundon contest. This is our most important provincial senior high contest, and we would like more students to write it.

Students who recieve top scores at the Bluncdon Contest are invited to attend the Annual Blundon Seminar Camp at Memorial held in May. For more information regarding this event please click here.

2024 Contest Information
Date: February 28, 2024
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Note: Calculators, tablets, etc. are not permitted.


Registration

The deadline for applying to write the Blundon Contest is February 15, 2024. The Blundon Registration Form 2024 is now available and the event will take place onFebruary 28, 2024.

The first place winner is presented with the Blundon Shield at our annual Seminar held in May each year. The shield is kept by the school for one year. This shield has been donated by the Mathematics Council of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association in recognition of the outstanding contribution to mathematics education made by the late Professor W.J. Blundon, and in appreciation of the work done by the MUN Competitions Committee in holding the annual seminar.

Two Blundon shields have been presented to the winners of the Blundon Contest:

  • (1984 to 2001)
  • (2002 to 2018)
  • the current Blundon Sheild (2020)


Past Winners

2023 Lakshmi Prajwala Chedella Venkata - Holy Heart of Mary High
2022 Eric Goulding - Mount Pearl Senior High
 2020 Daniel Gosse, Gonzaga High School
 2019 Benjamin Chislett, Holy Heart of Mary High 
 2018  Xingbo Huang, Gonzaga High School
 2017  Andrew Dawson, Gonzaga High School
 2016  Andrew Dawson, Gonzaga High School
 2015  Jared Loder, Ascension Collegiate
 2014   Mason Nolan, Gander Collegiate
 2013   Jordan Naterer, Holy Heart of Mary
 2012   Alexander Mackay, Holy Heart of Mary
 2011   Nathan WIlson, Holy Heart of Mary
 2010   Brian Peach, O'Donel High School
 2009   Adam Gardner, Gonzaga High
 2008   Louis Kim, O'Donel High School
 2007   Mark Yang, Prince of Wales Collegiate
 2006  Roger He, Prince of Wales Collegiate
 Ian Payne, Pasadena Academy
 2005   Shuang Han, Holy Heart of Mary
 2004   Andrew Critch, Clarenville High 
 2003   Andrew Critch, Clarenville High
 2002   Nithum Thain, Prince of Wales Collegiate
 2001   Michael Watson, Bishops College
 2000   Joshua Hollett, Musgravetown High
 1999   Leslie Rose, St. Francis High
 1998   Dale Whitmore, Prince of Wales Collegiate
 1997   Dale Whitmore, Prince of Wales Collegiate
 1996   Ed Kent, Gonzaga High School
 1995   Ian Barrett, Ascension Collegiate
 1994   Robert Bridson, Bishops College
 Reza Shahidi, Bishops College
 1993   Robert Bridson, Bishops College
 1992   Hao Ming Wu, Booth Memorial
 1991   Hari Mallidi, Prince of Wales Collegiate
 1990   Keir Colbo, Bishops College
 1989   Jamie Stuckless, Botwood Collegiate
 1988   Brett Oakley, Prince of Wales Collegiate
 1987   Allen Chen, Prince of Wales Collegiate
 1986   Jeff Pelley, Gander Collegiate
 1985   Neil Power, St. Stephens High
 1984  Timothy Churchill, Eugene Vaters Collegiate
 Samuel Sharpe, Queen Elizabeth High

 

Past Contests

The following are the Blundon Contest and solutions for the past several years:

2023 Contest 2023 Solutions
2022 Contest 2022 Solutions 
2020 Contest 2020 Solutions
2019 Contest 2019 Solutions 
2018 Contest 2018 Solutions
2017 Contest 2017 Solutions
2016 Contest 2016 Solutions
2015 Contest 2015 Solutions
2012 Contest 2012 Solutions
2011 Contest 2011 Solutions
2010 Contest 2010 Solutions
2009 Contest 2009 Solutions
2008 Contest 2008 Solutions
2007 Contest 2007 Solutions
2006 Contest 2006 Solutions
2005 Contest 2005 Solutions
2004 Contest 2004 Solutions
2003 Contest 2003 Solutions
2002 Contest 2002 Solutions
2001 Contest 2001 Solutions
2000 Contest 2000 Solutions
1999 Contest 1999 Solutions
1998 Contest 1998 Solutions