Madeline Maurer, Staff Reporter
Madeline Maurer, class of 2021, is a first-year reporter at WSPN. After school, Madeline performs in WHSTE’s plays and musicals and serves on the board. She spends her summers with Weston Drama Workshop. When she’s not acting, Madeline enjoys writing.
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![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)
![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)
![Recently, the WHS softball field has been under construction as a start to the overall rebuilding of the athletic facilities. For the last couple weeks of the season, the varsity softball team had been moving their practices and games to Cochituate Field due to the construction. “[We’ve been] all hands on deck, jumping into people’s cars and trying to get there,” sophomore Charlotte Salitsky said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_20190604_170953875_HDR-M.jpg)
![A graphing calculator and scantron sheets. Many teachers find cheating at WHS to be a prevalent and important but not an extremely widespread issue. “I think that [in] high schools in general, teenagers cheat,” WHS science Department Head Kenneth Rideout said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cheating.jpg)
![A portrait created by sophomore Bec Patsenker. Patsenker recently took a weekend trip to Snow Farm to explore the world of art. “We learned basic [techniques] you would need to know if you were to make felt sculptures later. [The projects turned] out really cool,” Patsenker said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Becs-drawing-L.jpg)
![Following the departure of a number of key members last year, the WHS all-female a capella group, the Muses, are prepared for a fresh start. “[To prepare new members includes] a lot of going back to the basics and not just working on ensembles. [A lot of] just working on harmonizing and blending and that sort of thing," Kiernan said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2499-900x600.jpg)