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<p>Robert Beletsky, of Wilkes-Barre, an eighth-grade student at Wyoming Seminary Lower School and the son of Marina Belkina. of Wilkes-Barre and Stanislav Beletsky, of Mountain Top, recently survived seven rounds to win the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee contest for the second year in a row.He now has an opportunity to continue on to state competition.</p><p>Hamza Waseem of Dallas, eighth grade, son of Dr. Waseem and Dr. Shazdeh Butt, was runner-up.</p><p>Beletsky and Waseem were among about 50 students from grades 5-8 to compete in the contest.</p><p>The school-level Bee, which requires students to answer oral questions on U.S. states, world geography, world economies, continents, bodies of water and other categories, was the first round in the 31st annual National Geographic Bee.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Seen following the conclusion of the Sem Lower School National Geographic Bee are, from left, Hamza Waseem, Geography Bee runner-up; William Davis, Bee moderator and Sem social studies faculty; and Robert Beletsky, Bee winner. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web1_Beletsky.jpg</photo0><caption0>Seen following the conclusion of the Sem Lower School National Geographic Bee are, from left, Hamza Waseem, Geography Bee runner-up; William Davis, Bee moderator and Sem social studies faculty; and Robert Beletsky, Bee winner. </caption0><photoCredit0>Submitted photo </photoCredit0></div></div>

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