{"id":110019,"date":"2026-07-30T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/110019\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:53:09","slug":"new-bern-11th-grader-wins-national-beta-club-championship-clubmates-rank-in-top-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/110019\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern 11th grader wins national Beta Club championship, clubmates rank in top 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Three New Bern high schoolers placed highly in a national championship, and one of them took the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Craven County Schools has announced that New Bern Beta Club highschoolers finished in the top eight of the 2026 National Beta Convention. Those three are:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 11th\u00a0Grade Agriscience\u00a0 &#8211; National Champion \u2013 Maggie Harris\u00a0 10th\u00a0Grade Biomedical \u2013 3rd\u00a0Place &#8211; Samantha Saenez\u00a0 10th\u00a0Grade Math \u2013 8th\u00a0Place \u2013 Magdalene Deng<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The convention was held in the Gaylord resort in Nashville, Tennessee. Students competed against thousands of others to celebrate academic achievement, leadership, and competition on the national stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWatching our Beta students compete at the National Convention is one of the greatest rewards of being a sponsor,\u201d said Kristal Harris, a sponsor of the New Bern club. \u201cTheir hard work, dedication, and courage to represent our school on a national stage make me proud every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. GREENVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[53564,104,53566,53565,107,53563,105],"class_list":["post-110019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-2026-beta-championship","tag-bern","tag-beta-club","tag-craven-county-schools-beta","tag-new-bern","tag-new-bern-finalists","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117009501787288748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}