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The Great Puzzle Hunt has raised $ 3,420 from 8 donors!
The Great Puzzle Hunt

Please help us honor Millie and her years of services and work within the WWU Math Department with a gift to the Millie Johnson Great Puzzle Hunt Fund. While she has officially retired from the classroom, she’s not done running the Puzzle Hunt. Your gift will allow us to ensure The Great Puzzle Hunt continues!

Millie Johnson, a white woman with curly white hair and large cat-eye glasses, smiles at the cameraMillie Johnson

By day, Millie Johnson has been a beloved professor of Mathematics for 47 years. She has received awards for excellence in teaching, inspired a love of learning in hundreds of students, and empowered those who didn’t think they would ever be good at math to master the concepts with confidence.

In 2016, Millie Johnson started the Great Puzzle Hunt, a scavenger hunt adventure that involved puzzles. This event brings students, alumni, kids, community members, and people from around the world together for a fun day of bonding powered by both the left and right sides of our brains. The Great Puzzle Hunt brings hundreds of people to campus and has attracted teams from across the nation-shining the spotlight on WWU and our amazing faculty and programs. 

With the newly created hybrid platform, people from everywhere in the world are playing virtually and joining the in-person players. All the action is streamed live from Red Square!

 

Your gift will provide much needed funding for Millie’s labor of love to keep the Great Puzzle Hunt registration FREE so people from all walks of life can participate. Please help us honor Millie with your gift today!


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Lunchtime Crunchtime!
From 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm on WWU Give Day, the fund with the most unique donors will receive an additional cash reward towards their fund! First place will receive $1,000, second place will receive $500, and third place will receive $250. Gifts from fake donors to inflate donor count may disqualify a department or program.
Rank Prize Lunchtime Crunchtime Challenge! Donors
1 $1,000 Women's Rugby Sport Club 78
2 $500 Western Symphony Orchestra 70
3 $250 Ice Hockey 36
4 WWU Racing (Formula SAE) 33
5 Men's Ultimate 23
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Twilight Giving
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Rank Prize Fund Designation Donors
1 $1,000 AS Alpha Kappa Psi 86
2 $500 Ice Hockey 43
3 $250 Sailing Team 36
4 Men's Rowing 27
5 WWU Racing (Formula SAE) 16
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1500th Donor Challenge!
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Breakfast of Champions!
Thank you to all participants! Congrats to Water Skiing Sport Club for winning 1st place! 2nd place winner is Ice Hockey, and 3rd place is Men's Ultimate!
Rank Prize Breakfast of Champions! Donors
1 $1,000 Water Skiing Sport Club 35
2 $500 Ice Hockey 31
3 $250 Men's Ultimate 27
4 Men's Rowing 19
5 Western Hub of Living Essentials (WHOLE) Food Pantry 14
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