Another strong showing at Georgetown

Model UN Team Wins Again at Georgetown

For the ninth year in a row, the West Point Model United Nations team won the first place team award at the National Collegiate Security Conference at Georgetown University.

The team competed against over 20 other colleges and universities, including tough competitors like the College of William & Mary, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and McGill University.

Of the 11 cadets that participated in the conference, 9 brought home individual awards in the 10 committees of which the team was assigned. This was an impressive victory for the team, and kicks off what will surely be a successful 2009-2010 season.

Please recognize all our participants for their individual success:

Best Delegate (1st Place):
James White (’10): representing the United States of America in the United Nations Security Council
Emmanuel Constantine Gfoeller-Volkoff (’10): representing Deputy Prime Minister Gamal Salem in the 1956 Egyptian Cabinet
Arron Conley (’10): representing Cameroon in the 2011 Peace and Security Council of the African Union

Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place):
Woo Do (’11): representing France on the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission
Honorable Mention (3rd Place):
Jake Haag (’10): representing Carlos Alberto Bolona Behr, Minister of Economics and Finance, in the Peruvian Cabinet
George Lemeur (’11): as chief military advisor to the Ad-Hoc Committee of the Secretary-General
Andrew Swick (’11): representing Khalid al-Falih, President and CEO of Saudi Aramco on the 2011 Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Connor Kilpatrick (’12): representing Daman Diu of the Bharatuya Janata Party of the Lok Sabha

Verbal Commendation (4th Place):
Micah Ables (’12): representing Portugal on the NATO Assembly on Cyber Warfare
Christopher Oblak (’11) and William Dickson (’13) were strong committee members and helped contribute greatly to our team’s success.

Up next, the team will travel across the pond from 30 October to 1 November to the Oxford Model United Nations Conference.