![Join WSPN’s Marissa Mendoza, Edge Wheeler, Ainsley Jay, Bowen Morrison and Sofia Ciciarelli as they cover seniors’ involvement in the election and the viewpoint from a WHS educator. “[The election is] a really toxic environment,” WHS history teacher Katherine Bassen said. “It would be disingenuous for me to say, ‘oh, everything's going great.’ Obviously it's not, right?”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_0282-1-1200x800.jpg)
![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: WSPN wins Online Pacemaker
Credit: 2021 NSPA Awards Ceremony
On April 10, 2021, WSPN was presented with the NSPA 2021 Online Pacemaker Award. Only 13 winners were selected out of approximately 160 online news sites.
April 12, 2021
The Wayland Student Press Network won the prestigious NSPA Online Pacemaker Award during the virtual JEA/NSPA 2021 Spring Convention on April 10, 2021. The Pacemaker is scholastic journalism’s preeminent award and is given to school newspapers that demonstrate excellence in journalism. This is the second year in a row that WSPN has won this award.
The NSPA announced 43 scholastic news sites as finalists on March 25. To select the Pacemaker finalists, judges carefully studied approximately 160 sites submitted from 30 states and three countries. Out of the 43 finalists, only 13 winners were selected – and only two are from the East coast.
