Emily Roberge, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Emily Roberge, Class of 2023, is a third year reporter and co-editor-in-chief of WSPN. She plays for the high school's field hockey team and is a co-captain for the high school's alpine skiing team. Outside of school and sports, Emily enjoys spending time with her friends and family, watching sports and scuba diving.
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![Posters hang in the mediation training room, the wrestling room, with the plans MetroWest Mediation Services used to conduct their lessons. Im looking forward to becoming a better mediator, junior peer mediator Zackary Goldstein said. [Im excited to] hopefully see a reduction in conflict throughout school or just see the impact mediation makes on people when theyre able to resolve their conflicts.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_4254-900x675.jpg)
![History teacher Laine Winokur is in her second year of teaching at Wayland High School. This year, Winokur has become further involved in the school community as a new advisor for WHS alliance club, a club which focuses on educating people on LGBTQ+ issues and providing a safe space for queer students. “Especially the safe space part [is important to me],” Winokur said. “We’re very lucky in the part of the country we live in and the community that we live in that, in general, it is a fairly safe place to live. But I do think it’s important for our students to have an even safer safe space.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AFEA5AD6-4D1A-43A0-A9AE-C9A733160511_1_201_a.jpeg)
![Sophomore Luke Chisum finishes first in the freshman three kilometer race at the DCL Championship Meet in 2021. This year, I want to get around 16:30 for a five [kilometer race], Chisum said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jkmAbCUUjw5yjE8RwUZibyojsoKHmWEwan85kJDW-900x600.jpg)
![Junior Xande Santos sprints with the ball, attempting to keep it in control. Santos scored the game winning goal during overtime. It felt amazing to score the first [goal] and the overtime winning goal, Santos said. The energy from the fans and the team was electric. I think we played very well and dominated the first half for sure. I’m excited to play our next game against Marlborough because we have a lot of potential.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/05E1ED9E-E7F8-4B59-BD0B-12061FE0606E_1_201_a-X3-900x600.jpg)
![Junior Ava Tang dresses in New Balance, Levis and thrifted clothing. Tangs favorite piece of clothing to dress in are sweaters. I think there [are] a lot of different patterns you can find or different bright colors with different fabrics and stuff,” Tang said](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_5803-L.jpg)
![Recently, students have completed course selection for the 2022 to 2023 school year. This marked a stressful time for students to fill their schedules with classes. “I think students [are pressured to make sacrifices], and I don’t even necessarily think it’s the school that does it to them,” freshman biology teacher Mary York said. “It’s hard because a little stress is good, we want to use our time in life well and contribute by learning and knowing and growing. You want to work to live, not live to work.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-04-at-9.59.52-PM-900x596.png)
![Family Promise Club leaders Maeve Myles and Elena Liu hand out flyers to promote their club during the Wayland High School Club Fair. They also utilize other ways to spread the word about Family Promise. “We have social media and an Instagram to get the word out about Family Promise,” Liu said. “[Our social media platforms are] a space where we post a lot about the issue of homelessness and where we also repost the Family Promise Organization’s Instagram.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/wvNLnzk24d0o5VUM8XyZdng2nP2kBneqPEonBVqu-e1642600688132-900x601.png)
![Wayland Middle School science teacher Richard Battaglia is excited to run the 2021, Oct. 11, Boston Marathon since it has not been held in-person since 2019. Everybody [in the Boston Athletic Association Running Club] is psyched to run the marathon, Battaglia said. A lot of us really enjoy Boston and to miss it for 2020 and the spring was really hard.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-9.25.55-AM.png)
