Catanese receives some help paying for college.
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These 14-year-old twin brothers have dominated their respective track and field events.
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Eighth grader Katie Veal hopes to send 50 Spanish-language books to Peru this summer.
Katie Veal is a Wayland Middle School eighth grader on a mission to help kids she’s never met. Veal is collecting new and gently used books in Spanish, all reading levels, to send to Peru with Daniel Fernandez-Davila, a Wayland Middle School social studies teacher and Peruvian archaeologist who serves on the board of Hatun Runa. Hatun Runa is a nonprofit organization working to provide “support for education, health care and everyday domestic life” in the isolated towns and villages of the northwest Andes Mountains. Veal’s book collection project is a complement to the “Loose Change Campaign,” which collected more than $14,000 to rebuild a dilapidated school in Atuen, Peru. This book collection, Veal’s Girl Scout Silver Award project, aims…
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These kids are fighting skin cancer one signature at a time.
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Meet a winning video game designer from Wayland.
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Four students helped gather valuable info in the battle to fight the weeds growing in Dudley Pond.
The text below is an adapted from an announcement submitted by Toni Moores. Students in Deanna Riseman’s Wayland High School honors biology class were tasked with “a project that has a positive impact on our ecosystem.” Freshman Bennett Keyes took the initiative to contact the Wayland Surface Water Quality Committee (WSWQC) and asked if there were any projects that he and three classmates could participate in to satisfy their honors biology class assignment. As chance would have it, the WSWQC was initiating the second phase of a project to study the nutrient (phosphorus) impact of septic tanks on Dudley Pond, and WSWQC needed data to be gathered as a part of the project. The Town of Wayland’s WSWQC and the Dudley Pond Association (DPA), …
Meet the WHS members of the small Dual County League All-Star team.
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Meet the BASE TV Production and "News Crew" class.
Patch Whiz Club of the Week: Look for an article later today about Patch's visit to the class. The students even helped take notes and photos for the story.
12:43 pm on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
My son took part in this program at BASE and I have to say that I was really impressed. Connie Burgess was so passionate about it and her enthusiasm was contagious. My third-grader put a lot of thought and effort into his segment, reading, researching, piecing it together, and editing it over time. It was great hands-on approach to learning and gave them some real-world experience as well. What a… more ›
Debra Goldman
1:53 pm on Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Angelo is a wonderful young man and I wish him success at Boston University. He is a great example for others. more ›