National Champions at Harvard!

This weekend the West Point Model United Nations team won the National championship at the Harvard National Model UN conference in Boston.

11 of the 14 cadets competing earned personal awards at the end of the most rigorous competition the team has ever faced, which included over 3,000 other students from 205 universities and 35 different countries. Perhaps most amazing is that the cadets won the championship while representing Niger (that's right, Niger).

Please congratulate the following cadets for their great work and for carrying on the proud winning tradition of West Point Model UN:

Best Delegate Award Winners (1st Place)
James White ('10) and Dan Hall ('10), representing Niger in the Disarmament and International Security Committee.
Jake Haag ('10) and Chris Oblak ('11), representing Niger in the Special Political and Decolonization Committee.
Will Dickson ('13), representing Niger in the 1994 Historical General Assembly on Rwanda.

Outstanding Delegate Award Winners (2nd Place):
Arron Conley ('10) and Micah Ables ('12), representing Niger in the Legal Committee.
Emmanuel Gfoeller-Volkoff ('10) and Woo Do ('11), representing Niger in the Social, Cultural, Humanitarian Committee.
Mike Kerper ('11) and Alex Thew ('11), representing Niger in the Global Financial Crisis Committee.

Cadets Elizabeth Constantino ('12), Lauren Pasque ('12), and Miles Gabrielson ('13) also did a great job representing the Academy with distinction.

The team will head off to Taipei, Taiwan on 12 March to compete in the World Model UN conference.