Moorestown Friends School Students Honored At Delaware's Model UN Conference

MOORESTOWN, NJ — Eight Moorestown Friends School students enjoyed great success at the HenMUN Conference at the University of Delaware on Feb. 24-26, the school announced this week.

HenMUN is a high school Model United Nations Conference that began in 2011 with over 350 delegates from across the country. This year, there were about 500 total student delegates in attendance, according to Moorestown Friends School History Department Chair and Advisor Clark Thomson.

The conference offers a competitive environment while providing training and a learning experience. The goal is to present situations with unparalleled realism.

“There are many tales and great work done by all from addressing Zika to working on plans for refugees to fixing economic crises in Italy and Greece,” Thomson said. “Students played roles on both the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions during the period of transition before the Bolsheviks took power. Sadly, all of our Mensheviks were assassinated. On the 1960s CIA, our chemist formulated a plan to destroy the Cuban sugar crop with genetically engineered bugs. Wonderful fun and diplomacy was had.”

Moorestown Friends School students who were honored included:

• Matthew Knowlton earned Honorable Mention as Cuba working for the World Health Organization;
• Camille Aguilar earned Outstanding Delegate as Uruguay on the Social, Cultural and Humanitarian Committee;
• Ian Millstein earned Outstanding Delegate as Uruguay on the Social, Political, and Decolonization Committee;
• Calum Boone earned Outstanding Delegate as Paraguay on the International Monetary Fund;
• Andrew Lin earned Outstanding Delegate as Georgi Plenkhanov working on the Menshevik Crisis Committee;
• Alex Horn and Tyler Radack earned Outstanding Delegates as Uruguay on the United Nations Security Council; and
• Anna Goula earned Best Delegate (and a gavel) as Italy in the European Union.

There were also social events where students were able to meet like-minded students, and a “Delegate Dance.”

For more on the conference, visit henmun.org.

The attached image was provided by Moorestown Friends School:

Front – Camille Aguilar, Anna Goula, and Ian Millstein.
Back – Calum Boone, Andrew Lin, Alex Horn, Tyler Radack, and Matthew Knowlton.