Joanna Barrow, Features Editor
Joanna Barrow, Class of 2022, is a fourth year reporter and the features editor for WSPN. She’s a co-captain of the high school’s Mock Trial team and Model United Nations and runs the book club. She loves spending time outdoors with her dog, reading as much as possible, and baking old recipes.
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![The WHS debate team travels to New Haven, CT for the Yale Invitational tournament. I think all of us are pretty excited [for the tournament], senior debate president Prash Subbiah said. For most people on the team, this is their first overnight debate trip, so they dont really know what its like, but its a lot of fun and [also] not really that much pressure.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/lD8gItJarqnhR4WqCFL48q23ngrNjnQJDGASNCnD-900x600.jpeg)
![Sophomores Owen Williams and Luke Chisum run in the championship 5k race. Williams and Chisum ran together for the entirety of the race and pushed each other to finish with a personal best time. All of the hard work payed off, Chisum said. Im going to try to run faster [next race].](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/E01E321D-ABC0-4ADC-84DE-F476A54AA225_1_201_a-1-900x600.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)
![Pictured above is junior Sashwat Dass troop during the Scout summer camp at Camp Yawgoog, RI, in 2018. “I think [the scouts] definitely shaped me into the person I am today,” Das said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-26-at-2.36.45-PM.png)
![Participants of the video gaming event held during second block last Friday battle each other in a game called Super Mario Smash Brothers. “I hope [students] have fun playing Smash,” event organizer Erik Swanke said. “Maybe we’ll get more people for the club.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-02-at-7.58.53-PM.png)
![UNICEF advocates Feyi Adebayo and Pallavi Nair, Human Rights Watch fellow Nesha Abiraj and Tammy Monteiro (left to right) witnessed the Massachusetts Senate vote that banned child marriage on July 25. “[My husband] told me that I was God’s chosen people, that I was chosen,” Tammy Monteiro, a protester who was a victim of child marriage, said in an interview with Mass Live. “He said that God somehow sent me to him to be his bride.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-27-at-10.09.39-AM.png)
![Two gold-rated efficient homes have opened up in Wayland. “Many homeowners have realized that if they invest in the energy-efficiency of the home, it makes their home more comfortable, it makes their utility bills lower, it does a good thing for the planet, and the fourth one is that it should make [their homes] more valuable,” previous gold-homeowner and current Pearl employee Kaat Vander Straeten said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/13RiceSpringLane-L.jpg)
![A new art gallery sponsored by Arts Wayland, pictured above, opens in the Wayland town center. [Arts Wayland] encourages kids to engage with art, and the fun part about the creative arts is that by putting something out into the world, youve actually created change in the world, said Peter Curran, Wayland Middle School art teacher and a director of Arts Wayland.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DSC_0109-L.jpg)
![A Sage speaks with Seeker Jake Sachs. Connects Sages and Seekers program aims to bring together students and local seniors through stories and interaction. “[The students] are starting to think of themselves as part of something bigger,” Connect tri-leader Ed DeHoratius said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_0096-L.jpg)