EagleMUN Takes Flight at GatorMUN

By Ms. Marca Hoyle, EagleMUN Advisor

From January 23-25, the EagleMUN team attended GatorMUN, a highly competitive Model United Nations conference at the University of Florida. Twenty-seven MVA delegates competed against 48 other schools (over 900 students!) in committees in the General Assembly, specialized, and crisis categories.  

Model United Nations is a competitive academic program where students simulate international diplomacy. General Assembly is the traditional category where students represent different countries in United Nations committees. Delegates debate international issues, form blocs to write resolutions, and present their resolutions to convince other countries to vote for them. Specialized and crisis categories provide additional challenges as students must apply diplomacy to political organizations beyond the United Nations, historical events, and even fictional scenarios. 

EagleMUN delegates Jacob Novis and Julianna Barbieri both won awards for their performance in Press Corps. 

• Jacob Novis won Best Delegate (1st place) for his representation of Little Saigon. 

• Julianna Barbieri won Honorable Mention for her representation of the Buenos Aires Herald.  

Press Corps is a unique specialized committee where delegates represent international news outlets. After dealing with a crisis scenario relating to international journalism, the delegates were then assigned other committees to report on while authentically representing their news outlet.  

Below is a full list of MVA delegates who participated in GatorMUN. 

Crisis Delegates  

1. Andrew Borne (East Asia Crisis – Park Ji Won)  

2. Isabella Salgado (East Asia Crisis – Yamamoto Ren)  

3. Charles Dumay (East Asia Crisis – Gao Xinyi)  

4. Elissa Ghanem (Ad Hoc Crisis – Position 29) 

5. Camelia Berrada (Ad Hoc Crisis – Position 30) 

Specialized Delegates  

6. Jacob Novis (Press Corps – Little Saigon)  

7. Julianna Barbieri (Press Corps – Buenos Aires Herald)  

8. Kinsley Sayer (African Union – Angola)  

9. Carington Helms (African Union – Botswana)  

General Assembly Delegates  

10. Noor Cheema (UN Office of Drugs & Crime – Jordan)  

11. Emily Nguyen (UN Office of Drugs & Crime – Kenya)  

12. Eisha Cheema (UN Office of Drugs & Crime – El Salvador)  

13. Je’siah Howard (UN Environmental Committee– Iceland)  

14. Jeevan Mahal (UN Environmental Committee – South Korea)  

15. Kayla Tran (UN Environmental Committee – Honduras)  

16. Humza Bajwa (UN Legal Committee – Sri Lanka)  

17. Munsif Minhas (UN Legal Committee – Latvia)  

18. Josh Joseph (UN Economic & Financial Committee – Singapore) 

19. Samara Clark (UN Economic & Financial Committee – South Africa)  

20. Elena Wang (UN Economic & Financial Committee – Türkiye) 

21. Katie Zhang (UN Economic & Financial Committee – Sweden) 

22. Juliette Carillo (UN Social, Humanitarian, & Cultural Committee – Fiji)  

23. Raquel Teixeira e Silva (UN Social, Humanitarian, & Cultural Committee - Sweden)  

24. Mimi Brito (UN World Health Organization Committee – Taiwan)  

25. Jayden Calagos (Ad Hoc GA - Kenya)  

26. Laura Menossi (Ad Hoc GA – Ireland)  

27. Sami Baishya (Ad Hoc GA- Iceland)  

If you are interested in more information about the Model United Nations program at MVA please contact one of the advisors: Robert Burke (robert.burke@montverde.org) or Marca Hoyle (marca.hoyle@montverde.org).