![Last Wednesday, the Wayland School Committee gathered to discuss a number of topics regarding the health curriculum and Innovation Career Pathway course. Another large topic of conversation was the ways to potentially mitigate distracting cell phone usage. "These [phones] are going to distract your learning and social relationships," Superintendent David Fleishman said. "That's concrete right there."](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-04-at-9.49.31 PM-1200x886.png)
![Troy Hoyt finishes the Boston Marathon, running for the Hoyt Foundation. T. Hoyt is the son of Hoyt Foundation CEO Russ Hoyt.
“[Running a marathon] might seem like a big thing, when it’s presented to you at first, but if you break it up and just keep telling yourself, “Yes, you can,” you can start chipping away at it. And before you know it, you’ll be running the whole 26 miles, and you won’t even think twice about it.” T. Hoyt said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/C36E8761-1CBB-452E-9DF2-543EF7B1095E_1_105_c.jpeg)
Students react to color blast
December 4, 2016
![Junior Yaniv Goren “I did go [to color blast], and I thought it was a lot of fun. I thought that it brought the class together really well. It was really nice to see all of the people in our grade gathered in the halls decorating together. I feel like I made new friends. It was just a good bonding time.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unnamed.jpg)
Junior Yaniv Goren
“I did go [to color blast], and I thought it was a lot of fun. I thought that it brought the class together really well. It was really nice to see all of the people in our grade gathered in the halls decorating together. I feel like I made new friends. It was just a good bonding time.”![Freshman Jesse Wang “It was pretty good. [There was] decorating, fun, music, and pizza. I like pizza; pizza tastes very good. Everybody thought it was going to be boring, but it was actually fun. We made paintings, we made flowers, we made a Shrek decoration [and] we made a Mike Wazowski.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unnamed-5.jpg)
Freshman Jesse Wang
“It was pretty good. [There was] decorating, fun, music, and pizza. I like pizza; pizza tastes very good. Everybody thought it was going to be boring, but it was actually fun. We made paintings, we made flowers, we made a Shrek decoration [and] we made a Mike Wazowski.”![Senior Bella Rocha “[I didn’t go to color blast]. I had to study for a standardized test, so I had to be home to study. If the dodgeball tournament was still here, I would’ve went to it. I really like dodgeball.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unnamed-4.jpg)
Senior Bella Rocha
“[I didn’t go to color blast]. I had to study for a standardized test, so I had to be home to study. If the dodgeball tournament was still here, I would’ve went to it. I really like dodgeball.”![Senior Zac Ward “I didn’t go [to color blast] because I decided to take a nap instead. I would’ve gone [to the dodgeball tournament]. I would’ve signed up because it’s a lot of fun to play dodgeball.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unnamed-3.jpg)
Senior Zac Ward
“I didn’t go [to color blast] because I decided to take a nap instead. I would’ve gone [to the dodgeball tournament]. I would’ve signed up because it’s a lot of fun to play dodgeball.”
Senior Chetan Patel
“I didn’t go to color blast because it sounded pretty stupid. I would’ve gone to dodgeball because I like dodgeball.”
![Junior Ethan Kelly “I thought it brought people together except for the fact that a lot of people seemed to not care and didn’t go. I was, in fact, forced to go. We sort of put minimal effort into it. It was unimportant to a lot of people, but there [were] a few people [who] really carried the whole project. I have a lot of respect for those people.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unnamed-1.jpg)
Junior Ethan Kelly
“I thought it brought people together except for the fact that a lot of people seemed to not care and didn’t go. I was, in fact, forced to go. We sort of put minimal effort into it. It was unimportant to a lot of people, but there [were] a few people [who] really carried the whole project. I have a lot of respect for those people.”
