Wayland Town Crier 6/20/11: Claypit Hill student earns honors in Science Poetry Contest. Isabel Deveney, a student at Claypit Hill School in Wayland, won second place in the Second Grade Expressive Category and earned a second place grand prize in the Expressive Category for grades K to 2 in the 2011 Massachusetts Science Poetry Contest. The contest has drawn thousands of entries from Massachusetts schoolchildren over the past 23 years. Professor George Ladd got the idea for the contest from a small-town schoolteacher in western Massachusetts he observed reading science poetry to her pupils one Friday afternoon. Contest entries display the curiosity and creative flair of children as young as 7 mulling the wonders of photosynthesis, rainbows and the life cycle of the butterfly.