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![A banner hung in the entrance to the WHS commons welcomes students and parents in to Waylands annual STEM Fair. The fair featured set-ups from WHS clubs and organizations, as well as engaging activities related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Mainly my goal was to inspire a lifelong learning among STEM for the younger kids, senior and robotics team President Charmaine Guo said. [We wanted] to encourage the middle and elementary schoolers and to entice them to join these clubs.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/pHQuunh68Ycsg5JpmCYuiVL9Zx5bcbAXQw37qyvx-1200x800.jpg)
![Earlier this month, WHS students auditioned for the highly selective Eastern Senior Districts ensembles. These ensembles allow high school students to improve their own musical ability and to play with other accomplished musicians as well. I really like watching the district rehearsals, WHS band director Joe Oneschuk said. You get to see the whole creative process happen. The [auditions include] strangers coming together who have never played with each other before, [and it] goes from a kind of rough first take to a really beautiful finished product.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/H6MHFZCky83Q3K4Rn46b08j223aRJK7VgA8CxMm9-1200x800.jpg)
![Senior residents of Carriage House observe as the Wayland High School robotics team presents its robot to the group. This past month, WHS nationally recognized robotics team brought their robot to the assisted living facility to display for the seniors. “We went to Carriage House to show off our robots to the senior citizens because they are always looking for more activities to brighten up their days,” WHS senior captain Charmaine Guo said. “[The seniors] love talking to me about my robotics and so we did [a demonstration] last year where we brought the robot in and we did it again this year.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/LSgbW4bomevMbxFWVcIuRPu2js7L5KELP7BYoHRe-1200x800.jpg)
![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)
![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)
