![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: Wayland senior named U.S. Presidential Scholar
Credit: Taylor McGuire
Out of over 5,300 applicants, Wayland High School senior Amelia Ao was named a U.S Presidential Scholar.
June 15, 2020
Wayland High School senior Amelia Ao was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar along with 161 other seniors in the U.S. for her accomplishments that she has demonstrated as a student. Scholars are chosen based on academic achievements, artistic or technical excellence, impressive transcripts, school evaluation and more.
The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars has chosen scholars annually for the past 56 years, and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the selected scholars on May 21, 2020.
One male and one female are chosen from each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and American students living abroad to be a scholar. Moreover, 15 more seniors are chosen at-large, 20 are chosen for artistic excellence and 20 are chosen for career and technical education. Among over 5,300 qualified applicants, only 161 students were selected to be named U.S. Presidential Scholars.
Generally, the scholars would be honored at the White House; however, COVID-19 will most likely alter the usual routine.
