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Rome International Model UN , 2024

Over the weekend of March 15-19, 5 senior members of the Riverview Model United Nations Team attended the 17th annual Rome International Model United Nations Conference. While the trip enabled the students to visit the Renaissance city of Florence, the ancient city of Pompeii, and the Eternal City of Rome on the Ides of March, the real reason for the trip was to attend the conference. This year's RIMUN was the 17th iteration and hosted students from 14 different nations from 4 different continents. Our team debated with students from Singapore, India, Venezuela, Mexico, Kuwait, Denmark, Poland, France, United Kingdom, Romania, Germany, Turkey, and, of course Italy. Over the 5 day conference, our Riverview team completed an almost impossible feat by winning SIX total awards for the conference. Congratulations! 🎉👏

🏆 Cohen Hoolahan won first place as best Delegate as Iraq in General Assembly 6 - Legal Committee

🏆 Brandon Williams won a second-place Honorable Delegate award as Ecuador in the Committee of Science and Technology

🏆 Lola Abraham won a third-place commendation as Ecuador in the Commission for Social Development

🏆 Callie Harden won a third-place commendation as Ecuador in the UN Security Council

🏆 Georgia Tsambis won a third-place commendation as Iraq in the General Assembly 1 - Disarmament and International Security Committee.

🏆 Georgia Tsambis also won a First Place Best Delegate award as Iraq in the entire General Assembly.

The weekend of April 11-14, 2024 saw the Riverview Model UN Team travel to Evanston, Illinois to compete in at the 21st Northwestern Model UN Conference for its final travel conference of the year.  The team of 8 students was comprised of all underclassmen who utilized this conference as a way to learn different skills and techniques to better prepare themselves for the 2024-2025 season.   The conference brought together over 700 students from 40 schools from across the country and asked students to learn the history of the Aztec civilization, Philippine government, and Nigeria - Biafra War as well as solve the current problems of the refugee crisis and the global economy.   The young team was very successful this weekend, being highlighted in the topic discussions and award consideration.  The members of the team who competed at Northwestern were juniors Renton Biondich, Chiara Brun, Carter Loughren, and Drew Ogrodowski and sophomores Rocco Brown, Murphy Hawk, Aicha Jaafar, and Siddaly Sykes.   Four of the students were recognized with individual awards for the weekend:

Drew Ogrodowski - First Place Best Delegate in the 1971 Pakistan Committee

Chiara Brun - Second Place Outstanding Delegate in the Tenochtitlan Committee

Carter Loughren - Fourth Place Verbal Commendation in the Nigerian Committee

Rocco Brown - Position Paper Awrad as the Portuguese Republic in the League of Nations

Congratulations to the team on a great weekend at Northwestern.  The awards at NUMUN XXI bring the final team total to for the 2023-24 season to 52, a great year.