Wayland Town Crier 4/18/10: Unique challenges for Destination ImagiNation teams. “How do you win this board game life, when games like this are getting harder to play?” Melissa Smith, a seventh-grader from Wayland, is desperate to know as she delivers the opening lyric to a parody of the titular song from the musical "Rent". Clad in a silver costume made of duct tape, Smith runs around a life-sized Monopoly board, singing about the tension in the life of a Monopoly token fighting to win the game. While accompanying herself on the electric bass, seventh-grader Rachel Hawley frets about the possibility of landing on the "Go to Jail" space as well. This intriguing scene can be found only on the set of "Monopoly!: The Musical," a project created by participants of the Destination ImagiNation (DI) program. Rizbamm, the only middle school Destination ImagiNation program in Wayland this year, received first place at the Regional Tournament on March 20.

With close to 450 students participating in the visual and performing arts, these programs are thriving at Wayland High School. In the past week students have had the opportunity to shine in band, chorus and orchestra concerts, and this time around the music was accompanied by an art show.

Along with the outstanding student performances this past week, special mention belongs to those music students who auditioned and were selected for the upcoming Senior District Festival (The students with starred names also qualified to audition for the all-state groups next spring): Orchestra: *Nichole Bell, viola; June Kim, cello; *Andrew Laven, cello; Suhana Ng, violin; *Grace Quinn, flute. Band: *Ryan Budnick, clarinet; *Patrick Curtin, tenor saxophone; *Alex Orlov, bassoon. Chorus: *Daniel Hyde, tenor; *Seth Lifland, bass.

Boston Globe 12/5/09: Globe West College Sports Notebook. Dartmouth College senior quarterback Alex Jenny, a former Wayland High star, was awarded the Alan Hewitt ’34 and Robert Hewitt ’40 Award as the player who best epitomizes athletic performance with academic achievement. An economics major with a 3.20 grade-point average, Jenny finished 13th all-time at Dartmouth with 2,241 career passing yards despite being sidelined after the fourth game this season with a dislocated elbow.

Wayland Town Crier 7/14/09: Wayland student wins gold at SkillsUSA Conference.   Darren O’Neil, Class of 2010 at Minuteman Career and Technical High School, won a gold medal…

Wayland Town Crier 6/3/09: Students perform well on National French Exam with four national winners and six Eastern Massachusetts Chapter winners.

Wayland Town Crier 5/28/09: Another major award for Wayland Student Press Network. The Wayland Student Press Network (WSPN), a popular Wayland High School student-run online…

Wayland Town Crier 5/21/09: Freedom Prize winner announced. Wayland High School sophomore David Ryan has won the 2009 Veterans Freedom Prize for his essay titled…