Middle and High Schoolers Participate in Model UN

Published December 5, 2014

Middle and high schoolers from across WCS recently participated in the Model United Nations conference, hosted by the YMCA Center for Civic Engagement. Middle schoolers competed November 17, and the high schoolers competed November 21-23. Both competitions took place at the Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro. Information below was provided by each school.

Brentwood Middle

Brentwood Middle School made a strong showing at the conference with 55 students.

• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • Ecuador: Katy Rose Bennett, Alysia Kang, Malac Elmissiry and Stephanie Chang.
• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Sri Abdala
  • Casey Crowe
  • Sean Moore
  • Caleb Stowers

Fairview Middle

Two of the seven teams participating in Model UN won awards.

• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • India: Sally Johnson and Anna Moore
• Approved Resolution:
  • Izabella Odom, Madison Leming and Brandon Scott presented their resolution to the General Assembly and it was approved.

Grassland Middle

• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • Qatar: Anne Gilliam, Sara Xu and Ailee Palmer
  • France: Emerson Pope and Avery Plemons
• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Eddie Ford
  • Izzy Bohn
  • Joseph Clinton
  • Madelyn Chaney
  • Mary Rooker
  • Michael Brown

Heritage Middle

Heritage Middle had four teams competing in this year’s Model UN Conference.

• Israel: Steele Schloberl, Tanner Hardy, Donal Eckhart and Sam Cooley.
• Switzerland: Sierra O’Neal
• Kiribati: Garrett Schneider, Katelyn Huckaby, Emma-Claire West and Henry Jensen
• Fiji: Liam Berner, Brantley Freeman and Matt Chalfant
• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • Israel
  • Switzerland
  • Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Steele Schloberl

Hillsboro School

• Haiti: Emma Deeds, Camryn Felt, Lauren McReynolds and Presley Smith – Resolution was passed.
• Rwanda: Andy Haworth, Will Henke, Jake Huner and Hayden McDonald – Resolution was passed.
• Indonesia: Alex Waring – Resolution was passed.
• Ecuador: Jessica Barker, Maddie VanHorn, Allie Williams and Natalie Wilson – Resolution was passed.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Nina Regala, Sara Solan, Shali Rader and Patton Mebel
• Japan: Graham Jess, Preston Garner and Cullen Wood – Resolution was passed.
• Central African Republic: Garrett Walker, Theo Minetos and Colby Jennings – Resolution was passed.
• Myanmar: Hunter Jones, Sean Spoletini and Gavin Haworth – Resolution was passed.
• United Arab Emirates: Josie McReynolds, Chloe Cole, Emma Regala and Chloe Copps – Resolution was passed.
• Somalia: Josh Davis and Jacob Solan
• Swaziland: Jack Ezell, Alex Beachum, Logan White and Noah Haworth
• Mali: Kyndra Fowler, Eliza McLaughlin, Noa Pope and Abby Lockridge
• Tunisia: Aliya Afrakhteh, Ella Whatley, Faith Murray and Hailey Neff
• Australia: Trevor Johnson, Jackson Melton, Oscar Crawford and Gabe Hall
• Malaysia: Adah Hall, Grace Craig, Anna Strohm and Sophie Hensiek
• Guinea: Emme Sperry, Emily Jones, Emily Kollenborn and Rita Stachurski
• Twelve of these teams moved on to the General Assembly.
• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  
  • Japan
  • Central African Republic
  • Nicaragua
• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Jessica Barker
  • Alex Waring
  • Anna Strohm
  • Dalton Williams
  • Josie McReynolds
  • Morgan Russell

Page Middle

• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • South Sudan: Ryan Jandreski, Michael Keffer, Liam Rauter and Wyatt Greenwalt
  • El Salvador: Eamon Smith, Karina Rovey, Connor May and Carly Williamson
• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Carly Williamson
  • Jacob Reed
  • Jillian Amsler
  • Karina Rovey
  • Samuel Landau
  • Meera Unni
  • Meredith Dunn
  • Cade Motley

Spring Station Middle

Spring Station Middle School students who participated in Model UN:

• Cole Broomfield
• Nolan Conklin
• Gabrielle Doty
• Allison Jones
• Caleb Keller
• Joshua Ludwig
• Zane Reed
• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • Joshua Ludwig
  • Nolan Conklin
  • Caleb Keller

Sunset Middle

• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Matthew Goodbred

Woodland Middle

Woodland was well represented at the YMCA’s 26th Annual Model UN Conference.

• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • Funding Iraqui Oil Companies: Hyungtaek shin, Ishan Sathe, Lany Sharara and Alak Johnson.
• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Emily Gwydir
  • Ishan Sathe
  • Grace Crossley
  • Lauren Link
  • Julia Thieme

Brentwood High

Brentwood High had the largest delegation ever to attend Model United Nations at 161 students.

The BHS Quiz Bowl won first place. Quiz Bowl members include Dalton Seniff, Ben Rando, Avery Arons and Austin Houston.

• Best Delegate Award:
  • Adrian Spencer-Smith
  • Tomas Starr
  • Omeed Noorbakhsh
  • Phillip Ooi
  • Madison Wade
• Best Resolution Award:
  • India: Lisa Qu, Aishwarya Pillai, Anna Cowan and Angela Caprio

Centennial High

Centennial High School had about 30 students participating in the Model UN conference.

• Leta Yi represented Nigeria on the Security Council.
• Nicole Zeller and Leilani DeRuvo were a lawyer team representing either Romania or Ukraine in a border dispute for the International Court of Justice.
• The remaining participants were part of the General Assembly.
• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Garrett Foster
  • Ian Seal

Fairview High

Taylor Johnson was selected to be President of the International Court of Justice at next year’s conference.

• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Heidi Job
  • Joe Reed
  • Keegan Stinson

Franklin High

• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • Zambia: Morgan Beam, Marcie Bulla, Casey Littleton and Sydney McFall.
• Outstanding Delegate Awards:
  • Musa Subramaniam
  • Nathan Perez
  • Mitch Pousson
  • Tripp Quarles
  • Stefan Kostas
  • Kamran Tate
• Passed Resolutions:
  • Lithuania: Nial Redha, Henry Morgan and Musa Subramaniam
  • Zambia: Morgan Beam, Marcie Bulla, Casey Littleton and Sydney McFall
  • Kiribati: Tripp Quarles, Josh Schujahn and Cooper Schaefer
  • Brunei: Park Gates, Brianna Stolt and Greggory Blackie
  • Tonga: Paul Hayslip, Hannah Deits and Tate Huesman
  • Slovakia: Reid Solomon, Reed Roland and Trent Marable
  • UAE: Stefan Kostas, Yeon John Kim and Kamaran Tate

Independence High

• Vanuatu: Matthew Pisani, Austin Saunders and Grace Pickett
• Nepal: Zac Mandis, Alexandra Ryan and Patrick Meadows
• Malta: Drew St. Charles and Cole Walraven
• Nauru: Delaney Fisher-Cassiol, Grace Walraven and Madison Haddix
• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Delaney Fisher-Cassiol

Page High

• Most Outstanding Delegate:
  • Qatar: Sam Handshy
  • Qatar: Nicholas Ainslie
  • United Kingdom: Nathan Weinberg
  • United Kingdom: Michael lee
  • Panama: Kenzie Mizell
  • Italy: Faith Griffin
• Most Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • Cuba: Raquel Miralles and Kourtney Ray
  • United Kingdom: Nathan Weinberg and Michael Lee

Ravenwood High

• Ravenwood Officers elected to serve in 2015:
  • Nick Mucci: Secretary-General
  • Drake Lyle: General Assembly President
  • Elias Kastritis: Secretary Council President
  • Drew Taylor- International Court of Justice President
  • Kurt Erickson- General Assembly Vice President
  • Kyle Neach- General Assembly Vice President
  • Emily Cosgrove- General Assembly Liaison
  • Avi Gargye- ICJ Associate Justice
  • Caitlyn Goodbred- ICJ Associate Justice
  • Preston Johnson- ICJ Associate Justice
  • Vichu Nathan- ICJ Liaison
  • Sarah Yang- Department of Public Information Officer
  • Kristin Callahan- Department of Public Information Officer
• Outstanding Resolution Award:
  • Kurt Erickson, Patrick Fallon, and Garret Foran -Outstanding Written Arguments in the International Court Novice Division
  • Rhea Jaisinghani & Emily Berexa -Outstanding Written Arguments in the International Court Advanced Division
  • Preston Johnson & Jerry Lu -Outstanding Lawyer Team and Winner of the Final Case in the Novice Division
  • Sudeep Ghantasala & Davis Deaton -Outstanding Lawyer Team
  • Preston Johnson and Jerry Lu – Winner of the final case in the Advanced Division
• Outstanding Delegate Award:
  • Alan Liu
  • Griffin Klein
  • Charlie Tate
  • Kurt Erickson

Summit High

Summit High School sent 13 students to the Model UN conference.

• Iran: Billy Baumgart, Morgan Cronan and Jaron Hengstenberg
• Iraq: Ahmed Jackson, Jonathan Napier
• Comoros: Allison Reddish and Patrick Sonnenberg
• Secretariat: Jessica Newman
• Lawyer team 1: Rielly Bethmann and Caitlyn Mulcahey
• Lawyer team 2: Eliott Geary and Anthony Kupecz

Rielly Bethmann and Caitlyn Mulcahey presented the case, Indonesia v. Malaysia, to the International Court of Justice. The team advanced through multiple preliminary rounds and scored the highest of of the seven lawyer teams and advanced to the final case. They finished second overall.