Middle and High Schoolers Shine at Model UN Competitions

Outstanding Delegates: 

• Sid Braddy
• Daniel Kim

Outstanding Resolution:

• Iran: Sid Braddy, Dylan Guardo, Eli Logan and Ryan Kilgore

Chosen to present their resolution to the General Assembly:

• Uzbekistan: Daniel Kim and Jack Matthews

Outstanding Resolution Awards:

• Australia: Jacob Myers and Joshua Whitehead
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Sikama N’Kouka, Dmitri Stone, Zach Stuck and Andrew Marsh

Outstanding Delegates:

• Michael Brown
• Kailey Melichar
• Emerson Pope
• Ellen Sanders
• Molly Volker
• Trevor Zou

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Heritage Middle School came home with 6 plaques.

• Teams representing the U.K., Italy and New Zealand’s resolutions passed through committee to the plenary session. New Zealand’s resolution passed plenary.

Outstanding Delegates:

• Collin Coil
• Samantha Druessi

Outstanding Resolution:

• Team U.K.: Collin Coil, Ingle Makemson and Isaac Clark

Participants: 

• Skylar Bixby
• Courtney Chaney
• Isaac Clark
• Colin Coil
• Sydney Coil
• Sadie Cook
• Kayla Dakin
• Samantha Dreussi
• Brianna Ferrara
• Ingle Makemson
• Rebekah May
• Hannah Mazzucchi
• Amani Robinson
• Ehtan Smoot
• Andrea Villavicencio
• Gracie Zentz

Congratulations to all of Hillsboro’s Model UN participants for their great showing at the Model UN conference in Murfreesboro! There were more than 120 groups from multiple schools participating, and of the 20 groups which made it to the General Assembly, 13 were from Hillsboro.

Outstanding Resolutions:

• Bangladesh: Chase Robertson, Christian Darr and Ethan Ungerbuehler
• Malayasia: Taylor Qualls, Emma Lane and Annie Cornay

Outstanding Delegates:

• Vivienne Ayers
• Jared Beazley
• Christian Darr
• Sofia Fisher-Cassiol
• Lily Fox
• Valentina Hooghkirk
• Olivia Jacobs
• Trevor Johnson
• Taylor Qualls
• Jessica Rizzardi
• Chase Robertson
• Sara Solan
• Tom Stachurski
• Lauren Stuart
• Etain Williams
• Hannah Williams

Outstanding Resolutions:

• Papua New Guinea: Drew Petrie, Jack Deason, Patrick Meyerhoff and Gavin Marsh
• Spain: Julia Klier and Charlotte Menko

Outstanding Delegates:

• Samuel Landau
• Carsten Rovey
• Trevor Smith
• Finn Webster

Outstanding Delegate:

• Cole Gershkovich

Outstanding Resolutions:

• Mikayla Fantine
• Joshua Remillard
• Serena Smith

Outstanding Resolutions:

• Min Kalasikam
• David Taylor
• Trystan Wepking
• Parker Woods

Outstanding Delegates:

• Sarah Phillipi
• Owen Sanford

Participants:

• Femi Adegoke
• Ana Antic
• Emily Compstock
• Ellie Degus
• Maddie Degus
• Chris Dudas
• Rex Gainer
• Reid Grizzle
• Mark Hancock
• Abby Hershkowitz
• Lily Hershkowitz
• Carter Heustis
• Macie Howell
• Ashwin Jain
• Rohan Jaisinghani
• Reva Jethwani
• Shree Kypa
• Greta Li
• Lauren Link
• Connor Looney
• Aubrey Lowe
• Hemani Mehta
• Rithwik Narayandas
• Snighda Narayandas
• Brooke Ohrt
• Sarah Phillipi
• Keerthana Pradeep
• Grace Ridlen
• Moira Reimschisel
• Andrew Rigsby
• Lexi Rogers
• Owen Sanford
• Levi Seegmiller
• Smarth Sharma
• Karina Sheth
• Aayushi Soni
• Varshinee Subramanian
• Harper Thompson
• Rohan Tygai
• Sheeline Yu
• Ian Von Weisenstien
• Grace Woodside

The Fairview High School Model UN team attended the Model UN Convention in Murfreesboro, TN November 13-15.

Participants:

• Alison Abernathy
• Teasha Dogra
• Isabella Hendrickson
• Amber Hess
• Taylor Johnson
• Madi Pritchard

Taylor Johnson served as President of the International Court of Justice. Isabella Hendrickson and Madi Pritchard were members of the Department of Public Information. Isabella Hendrickson had four of her articles published in the Model UN newsletter. Alison Abernathy served as Vice President of General Assembly. Teasha Dogra and Amber Hess were lawyers in the International Court of Justice, and they placed second in their division.

Teasha Dogra was elected to serve as a Supreme Court Justice at the 2016 Model UN.

The following groups were ranked in the top 5 for their presentation: 

• Oman: Abby Ayers, Emma Johnson, and Taylor Ayers
• Burundi: Andrew Kochomba, Nial Redha, and Sam Perez

Outstanding Delegate Award (Awarded to the top 20 students in each of the 2 General Assemblies): 

• Egypt: Abdul Aleryani
• Solomon Islands: Sam Grove
• Romania: Sophia Badalian
• Zambia: Maris Goodwin
• Guatemala: Amanda Wong
• Peru: Preston Gates
• Peru: Liam Robertson

Outstanding Resolution Award (Awarded to the 20 countries (groups)):  

• Costa Rica: Reid Solomon and Jack Ray
• Niger: Sidonia Cannon, Megan Carneal and Sally Johnson
• Estonia: Carter Imbrecht, Jacob Evans and Ethan Houston
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Bhalika Rajan, Sarah Li and Anna Nguyen
• Guatemala: Amanda Wong, Aditi Srivastava and Sammi Zhang

Outstanding Security Council Member (Awarded to 1 student on the Security Council): 

• ​ Luxembourg: Musa Subramanian

Elected to Serve in Next Year’s Conference: 

• Taylor Ayers as a General Assembly Vice President (1 of 6)
• Hayley Welch as a General Assembly Vice President (1 of 6)
• Preston Gates as the General Assembly Liason (1 of 1)

Outstanding Delegates:

• Jessica Barker
• Delaney Fisher-Cassiol
• Henry Jensen
• Steele Schoeberl

Outstanding Resolutions:

• Colby Jennings
• Patrick Meadows
• Madison Oliver
• Drew St. Charles
• Haley Tobin
• Cole Walraven
• Sarah Zakaria

Outstanding Delegate:

• Steven Kevorkian

Participants:

• Collin Ainslie
• Nike Anifowoshe
• Emily Berry
• Henry Catalano
• Yasmine Chauhan
• Maggie Collins
• Megan Crawford
• Nikki Denton
• Dhruvaj Devdhara
• Meredith Dunn
• Nathan Fulk
• Abbey Gobble
• Christina Hancock
• Haley Haney
• Sean Harris
• Gracie Hawkins
• Tanvi Jivtode
• Jack Johnson
• Megan Juba
• Sydnie Kanne
• Abby Kelly
• Steven Kevorkian
• Rob Melton
• Mattison Moon
• Kacie Morris
• Sarah Parker
• Dillon Purdue
• Olivia Romanko
• Valerie Romanko
• Sid Salazar
• Emma Sanders
• Sara Sanders
• Sierra Sherman
• Katie Tracy
• Alexandra Wilkerson
• Lance Wilkerson
• Annabelle Wilson
• Elaine Wright

Outstanding Delegates:

• Sara Ali
• Brendan Goodbred
• Emily Gwydir
• Alan Liu

Outstanding Resolutions:

• Micronesia: Stefan Antic, Patrick Fallon and Garett Forran
• Albania: Hanna Cho, Sathara Samudrala and Pratheeksha Sujay
• Madagascar: Eva Bangerter and Noelle Link
• Chad: Trisha Ghosh, Caroline Harrison and Alira Thomas

Outstanding Written Arguments:

• Matthew Goodbred
• Ishan Sathe

Outstanding Written Arguments Senior Division:

• Rhea Jaisinghani
• Emily Berexa

Outstanding Lawyer Team and Final Case Winner:

• Matthew Goodbred and Ishan Sathe

Outstanding Lawyer Team and Final Case Winner Senior Division:

• Jerry Lu and Abhinav Raju

General Assembly Liaison:

• Griffin Klein

Vice Presidents:

• Nikhil Arun
• Kevin McGinnity

General Assembly President:

• Kurt Erickson

President of the Court:

• Preston Johnston

Associate Justices:

• Rhea Jaisinghani
• Cailyn Goodbred
• Jerry Lu

Secretary Liaison:

• Sudeep Ghantasala

Outstanding Resolutions:

• Clay Napier
• Tom Snow

Participants:

• Rielly Bethmann
• Anupam Gopinadhan
• Sam Lyons
• Abrahim Marquez
• Caitlyn Mulcahey
• Clay Napier
• Tom Snow
• Kellie Veltri
• Nick Vlahakos

Rielly Bethmann and Caitlyn Mulcahey served as Justices in the International Court of Justice.