{"id":95121,"date":"2026-01-24T00:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95121\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:12:42","slug":"congratulations-to-our-top-spelling-bee-finishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95121\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our top Spelling Bee finishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SPELLING-BEE-WINNERS-3.png\" alt=\"three students pose for photo\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67608 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen students in grades 6-8 participated in the annual Bethlehem Central Middle School Spelling Bee on Friday, January 16.<\/p>\n<p>During the intense competition, students spelled over 200 words ranging from \u2018faraway\u2019 to \u2018duplicitous,\u2019 all while dressed in their best Pajama Day outfits.<\/p>\n<p>Arnav Jakkamsetti, Ellie Lundin, and Emma Zhang finished as the Bee\u2019s top three spellers, with Arnav eventually pulling off a victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Lundin was runner-up, in second place and Emma Zhang finished third.<\/p>\n<p>Arnav will now be registered to participate in the Regional Qualifier Bee that will be held virtually in early February. Good luck, Arnav! BC is rooting for you!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to English Language Arts K-12 supervisor Dan Hash for organizing the annual event and the middle school ELA teachers who host classroom bees, preparing the schoolwide Bee contestants.<\/p>\n<p>A special thank you to Library Media Specialist Ms. Sylvia Lilly, who served as the Bee judge and recordkeeper!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4899-1024x687.jpeg\" alt=\"five people pose for photo\" width=\"525\" height=\"352\" class=\"wp-image-67609 size-large\"  \/>From l to r: Ms. Lilly, Ellie Lunden, Arnav Jakkamsetti, Emma Zhang, and Mr. Hash.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than two dozen students in grades 6-8 participated in the annual Bethlehem Central Middle School Spelling Bee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[44236,44237,153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-95121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bcms-archive","9":"tag-bcms-news","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}