![The Wayland Police Department have issued a warning on the rise of scammers during the holiday season. “Hang up [the phone]. if you get a text and you do not know who it's from, just delete it. Don't click on any links, nothing,” Wayland police chief Edward Burman said. “Every single one of them is a scam.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/img_0954_720-e1734676255647.jpg)
![WHS’s Connect Program ran its annual holiday gift drive to fulfill the wishlist of children enrolled in the Dorchester based non-profit daycare organization, the Yawkey Center. This drive brought the town together and impacted both the students in Connect, as well as the greater Wayland community. “You could see how helpful the town was and how our community came together and wanted to help out a community that wasn't our own [and] kids who were less fortunate than we were,” senior and Connect Program member Jordynn Lee said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/screenshot_2024-12-20_at_12.21.24___pm_720-e1734734228474.png)
![The Boy Scouts will be selling trees on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays noon to 6 p.m. until they sell out.
“This event is one of the things that [the Boy Scouts] get to have a direct impact on the community,” freshman Alex Macleod said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-8.38.38 AM.png)
Speakers share experiences in TEDxYouth Wayland
May 11, 2015
Wayland High School hosted a TEDxYouth event this past weekend, on Saturday, May 9. Thirteen TED talks and three performances took place under the theme of “daring greatly.”
The event was well-attended, with the front section of the theater filled out, and the audience positively received the speakers.
“It was really cool how Jameson [Hunt] could make up music on the fly,” sophomore Graham Macklin said. “He showed me that you don’t always have to prepare for things and can just go with your gut.”
Before presenting, the speakers were nervous but excited about spreading their messages.
“I want them to at least think about what I’m saying,” junior Lila Masand said. “I know that I won’t reach everyone in the audience, but I hope at least a few take what I have to say to heart.”
The speakers thought their talks responded well with the audience, and the messages of their talks were well-received and thought about.
“I think my talk went well because I felt very engaged with the audience,” speaker Rachel Hawley said. “There were a lot of students in the audience, and a lot of them told me afterward that my experience was consistent with their experience, and it made them think about stuff, which is all you want.”
List of events; Click on Title of Talk To See Video of Presentation
Declan Nolan: Transgender Representation in the Media
Hugh Jones: Getting to the Point
Nour Sayeh: Finding the Positive Light in Hardships
Tachianna Griffiths: Provoke a Response, Start a Conversation
Jameson Hunt: Don’t Read Music, Make Your Own
Sylvia Lagor: Introverts in an Extrovert School
Rachel Hawley: In Defense of the High School Underachiever
Intermission – background piano music by Casey Troost
Will Danforth: Redefining Impossible with Sound
Anne Flaherty: Animal Rights: A Series of Realizations
Lila Masand: Dare to Say the “F” Word
Jack McCahan: Searching for Life Among the Stars
Gabi Ragazzi: Guitar performance
Naiya Davis: Ouch… Did You Really Mean That?
Daly Place: Helping Yourself Through Helping Others
T-tones: Vocal performance
Anonymous • May 13, 2015 at 11:35 AM
Sounds like it was a great event! Was is recorded so those who missed it can watch?
marybarber (Admin Account) • Sep 30, 2015 at 10:30 AM
It was and the links are now active. Click on title of talk and it will bring you to the presentation.