[Photo] Debate team qualifies to gold division of National Tournament Josh Schreiber and Andrew Boyer November 17, 2019
![Wayland Historical Society Executive Director Scarlett Hoey explains the history of the Cochituate Gatehouse.
"The exterior is still a nice monument to remember buildings [involved in] water history," Hoey said. "We all drink lots of water, and it's such an important resource that we kind of take for granted nowadays."](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_2024-1200x800.jpg)
![Senior Sam Goldstone has a designated workspace for the 2020-21 remote learning phase. "I definitely get really tired after lunch [because] my last two block classes are always the hardest," Goldstone said. "In school in person, I never really got tired since classes were more fun. Now that everything is online, it's a lot harder for teachers to engage students considering all the distractions they have easy access to at home."](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Uen66TK4p50gmJzoyKaaL266JSYVmSDImMZ1kQT1-900x564.jpeg)
![Juniors Randy Wang (left) and Atharva Weling (right) recently qualified to the gold division of the Tournament of Champions. Wang and Weling, along with the rest of the team, are preparing to compete in national tournaments in December. "We took many hours to prep, got everything done, and wrote up everything we needed to [write up]," Weling said. "We went in to the competition and just applied everything that we had been practicing, so it was just a culmination of our work."](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-15-at-9.08.13-AM.png)