Model UN takes Award of Excellence at national Model UN conference

Emily Padget and Tre'vell Anderson confer during the National High School Model UN conference, where the RNE Model UN team took the Award of Excellence.

Columbia, SC:  Richland Northeast High School’s Model UN team won the Award of Excellence as well as an award for research and preparation at the National High School Model UN Conference at the United Nations in New York in March. The 19-member team, which represented Indonesia, competed against 172 delegations comprising more than 2,500 students from throughout the world.

Team members were:

DISEC: Kate Nielsen and Erin-Lynn Harvey
ECOFIN: Francie Berger and John Parvin
SOCHUM: Leacy Burke and Elyse Kriegshaber
SPECPOL: Tre’vell Anderson and Emily Padget
Legal: Caroline Corley and Rachel Lourie
UNEP: David Wile
UNPC: Jessie Johnson
CSW: Kelsey Stegall and Maggie Lawrence
Commission for Social Development: Connie Ding
UNESCO: Paul White and Darby Shuler
World Bank: Stephen Wilson
IAEA: Mohammed Alshareef

In addition, Lauren Wright attended the conference as a member of the press corps, serving as the humanitarian reporter for Hamza, a Syrian newspaper.

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