Andrew Boyer, Guest Writer
Andrew Boyer, Class of 2022, is a guest contributor for WSPN and co-founder of Half Hour Hook. He plays basketball for WHS, competes on the debate and robotics teams, and is the president of the Wayland Computer Science club. In his free time, Andrew loves computer programming, spending time with his friends and family, listening to new music and playing spikeball.
![Last Wednesday, the Wayland School Committee gathered to discuss a number of topics regarding the health curriculum and Innovation Career Pathway course. Another large topic of conversation was the ways to potentially mitigate distracting cell phone usage. "These [phones] are going to distract your learning and social relationships," Superintendent David Fleishman said. "That's concrete right there."](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-04-at-9.49.31 PM-1200x886.png)
![Troy Hoyt finishes the Boston Marathon, running for the Hoyt Foundation. T. Hoyt is the son of Hoyt Foundation CEO Russ Hoyt.
“[Running a marathon] might seem like a big thing, when it’s presented to you at first, but if you break it up and just keep telling yourself, “Yes, you can,” you can start chipping away at it. And before you know it, you’ll be running the whole 26 miles, and you won’t even think twice about it.” T. Hoyt said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/C36E8761-1CBB-452E-9DF2-543EF7B1095E_1_105_c.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)
