Stehlik Intermediate Students Excel at Model UN Conference

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Thirty students from Stehlik Intermediate School competed in the annual Model United Nations Competition held at Lanier Middle School during the spring semester. Model UN is a simulated version of the real United Nations. Students prepared for over two months learning the rules and procedures used at The Model United Nations Conference. Students were required to become experts on a specific current event topic, choose a country, and debate and defend their country’s views and positions. The ultimate goal was to create resolutions to the problems faced. Stehlik earned five awards, placing first in three of the six debate committees and placing second in two of the six debate committees.

Created by the United Nations Association, Global Classrooms seeks to engage these middle school and high school students in an exploration of current world issues through interactive simulations and curricular materials that cultivate literacy, life skills and the attitudes necessary for their own active citizenship. The culmination of Global Classrooms program year is a Model United Nations Conference held in each spring. At this conference students step into shoes of UN Ambassadors and debate a range of issues on the UN agenda with their peers from other area schools.

The Model UN sponsors at Stehlik Intermediate School are Adam Harrer and Gabriela Arevalo. Below are the committees Stehlik Intermediate sixth grade students represented at the Model UN Conference:

Best Delegation (1st place)
UN Environmental Program: Freshwater Resources
— Shunn Brown & José González
Human Rights Council: Women and Child Refugees
— Elizabeth Trujillo & Monserrat Solano
World Health Organization: Infectious Diseases
— Chelsea Monroy & Ivy Ross

Honorable Mention (2nd place)
UN Developmental Program: Climate Change
— Tommy Tran & Harrison Sao
World Health Organization: Infectious Diseases
— Zara Moreno & Cecilia Pedraza