{"id":332,"date":"2012-11-19T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T19:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2012-11-22T07:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T12:54:51","slug":"model-united-nation-club-competes-and-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Model United Nation Club Competes and Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MUN-Winners-at-Fairfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MUN-Winners-at-Fairfield-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MUN Winners at Fairfield\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-335\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo contributed by Katie Boland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>By Katie Boland<br \/>\nTHS Teacher<\/p>\n<p>During the weekend of November 10-11, 2012, the Model UN team competed at the University of Connecticut Model United Nations Competition. There were more than 300 students from around the northeast and Canada at the competition. Trumbull\u2019s own graduate Emily Block \u201910 was the chair of one of the committees.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Trumbull High School came away with four awards after the weekend competition.<br \/>\nJeff Netting: Best Delegate for his work as Russia in the International Criminal Court<br \/>\nGulrukh Haroon: Best Delegate for her work as Nigeria in the Counter Terrorism Committee<br \/>\nNick Lozinak: Best Delegate for his work as Nigeria in UNCTAD<br \/>\nChitra Nidadavolu: Most Improved Delegate for her work as Russia in UNICEF <\/p>\n<p>The Model UN Club also had a very successful Model UN competition at Fairfield University on Friday, November 16, 2012. There were five committees and twelve other schools at the conference. In addition, Trumbull High School had several new members participating for the first time at Fairfield. <\/p>\n<p>Trumbull\u2019s team won six out of the ten awards presented in two categories: Best Delegate and Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Netting: Best Delegate for Germany in Humanitarian Action of WWII and Present Day: A Discussion on Genocide<br \/>\nBrandon Capece: Best Delegate as Spain in the Libyan Uprising Committee<br \/>\nKevin Bielicki: Honorable Mention as Libya in the Libyan Uprising Committee<br \/>\nNicole Wittstein: Best Delegate as World Bank Chairman Jim Yong Kim in the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster<br \/>\nRyan McEniry: Honorable Mention as the IEA Executive Director<br \/>\nLily Bauer: Best Delegate as Albania in the Special Session Crisis Committee: Human Trafficking in the Balkans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katie Boland THS Teacher During the weekend of November 10-11, 2012, the Model UN team competed at the University of Connecticut Model United Nations Competition. There were more than 300 students&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}