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![Join WSPNs Selena Liu, Kally Proctor and Jenny Shine as they explore pickleball and the rise of the sports popularity in Wayland. “I think I just drove by [the high school] and saw people playing, so I started to join,” Wayland resident Bruce Greenberg said. “My friends were playing [pickleball] and I wanted to play.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pickleball-featured-image-900x600.jpeg)
![From left to right freshman Julianna McDonald, junior Sophia Verma, freshman Marissa Mendoza and sophomores Melody and Marissa Wong stand together, each grabbing a piece of dough to mold. After senior Eileen Kaewapresert made the pasta dough, the rest of the students got to create the shapes of their choice. “At first, this was only a small group to bond with two special needs students, Melody and Marissa [Wong], because they already had an interest in cooking,” Kaewprasert said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/18CCCDA2-968D-4E23-8DD9-E1C0F29F7BCE_1_201_a-900x600.jpeg)
![Junior Ciaran Murphy’s composition, “Rondo in C”, is displayed on his laptop. Murphy started composing music as a way of following in his dad’s, who is a musician and composer, footsteps. “I always heard [my dad] and saw him composing music in his office,” Murphy said. “My dad would let me mess around on his composition software when I was really young and it’d always just be like conglomerations of notes. Eventually, I learned enough theory to really start putting things together.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-07-at-12.59.06-PM-900x675.png)
![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)
![Seniors (left to right)Emily Roberge, Sophia Oppenheim and Charlotte Richter show off their astronaut costumes. The three of us were like, We should do a costume together for Halloween, Oppenheim said. Even though there was a lot of debating on what we should be, we finally decided [on astronauts].](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_3133-900x675.jpg)
![In the finishing scene of the play, the entire cast of Epic Proportions rallies on stage and strikes a pose. This scene, as well as several others, occurs as a voice-over by the narrator (played by senior Harrison Dietzius) talks to the audience. My favorite thing about being in this play was just getting to do one last show [before I graduate], Dietzius said. Just getting to be in one more show with all the people that Ive been [in the theater ensemble] with for the past four years before I leave was really nice.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSC_1623-1-900x600.jpg)
![As students enter the third quarter of the school year, many of Wayland High Schools seniors start experiencing senior slump. I’ve noticed [a decrease] in my motivation to do any tasks, senior Angela Liu said. I’ve noticed I’ve become a lot less organized, I’ve been keeping track of my tasks or my papers a lot less than I would have normally.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-09-at-9.19.31-AM-900x594.png)
![On Tuesday, Nov. 23, the Alliance Club hosted Anonymous Ask, an event in the auditorium where WHS students asked panelists about sex, gender, relationships and many other topics. The event was held entirely in the dark, except for lights on the panelists, to use anonymity as encouragement for students to ask questions that they otherwise may feel too awkward or uncomfortable to ask. I definitely feel that there’s a big need [for this event],” librarian assistant and co-advisor of Alliance Kassie Wright said. For one, this school teaches abstinence, which is great and I definitely think is good, but we also have to be realistic and know that there are kids who are going to be practicing sex and this is a way to teach them safe sex, safe gender, safe things about their relationships [and] any type of thing that they may not have known.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-06-at-9.09.28-AM-900x655.png)
![The Class of 2022 celebrates their semi-formal, held at the Weston Golf Club. The Class of 2022 semi-formal was the last school dance hosted for Wayland students since the pandemic hit. The current junior class was not able to have a semi-formal last year and is in the process of planning its dance for this year despite a series of setbacks. “If we do have it at the high school, it’s not your ‘typical’ semi-formal,” Junior Class Vice President Samantha Tyska said. “I hope that our grade reacts to that and doesn’t get angry, [but are] more so appreciative of the idea that we’re able to hold an event for our class.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-29-at-9.40.55-AM-900x603.png)