{"id":254963,"date":"2026-04-07T01:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254963\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:53:11","slug":"south-bay-boy-a-finalist-in-americas-favorite-student-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254963\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bay Boy A Finalist In &#8216;America&#8217;s Favorite Student&#8217; Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Bay student has a chance to be named &#8220;America&#8217;s Favorite Student&#8221; by famed TV science show host Bill Nye.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Schultz of Park Western Place Elementary in San Pedro is in the running for Nye\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/americasfavstudent.org\/2026\/wyatt-33?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cAmerica\u2019s Favorite Student\u201d contest<\/a>, with voting in the current round scheduled to conclude Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will get an article in Reader\u2019s Digest, a tour of The Planetary Society with Nye himself, and a $20,000 prize. Wyatt said that if he wins, he wants to donate the money back to Park Western. <\/p>\n<p>Wyatt, according to his parents and teachers, is &#8220;curious, deeply observant and thinks outside the box.&#8221; He also loves math, nature, bugs and science.<\/p>\n<p>He also loves geology and has a &#8220;massive&#8221; collection of gemstones, many of which he has found or mined himself, according to his family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Bay student has a chance to be named &#8220;America&#8217;s Favorite Student&#8221; by famed TV science show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-254963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}