![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)
News Brief: Robotics team competing in the New England Regional Tournament
Credit: Courtesy of Jay Moody
Pictured above is the venue of the WHS Robotics Team’s recent North Shore competition two weeks ago. The team is competing this weekend at the New England Regional Competition.
April 8, 2017
Wayland High School’s robotics team will be competing today, Saturday, April 8, in the FIRST Robotics League’s New England regional tournament at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittlemore Center in Durham, NH. The competition will be on a live stream from Thursday through Saturday. The results and schedule will be posted here throughout the day.
Each match will be around two and a half minutes. There are 128 qualification matches, with Wayland competing in 12 of them. The team competed on Thursday, around 4pm and 6pm, and on Friday, around 9:45am, 11:30am, 1:45pm, 3:15pm, and 4:30pm. They will have two games today, one around 10am and one at 10:45am. If they progress through the qualifications, they will compete in the playoffs, which will also be held Saturday, later on in the day.
When on the live stream, Wayland’s team number will be 5735. The number will show up in matches where they compete.
