The West Point Model United Nations Team recently named me its '09-'10 public affairs officer. For starters, let me recap the team's recent successes. The team represented the academy tremendously in a number of conferences during the '08-'09 school year, taking first place at conferences at Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, and McGill University in Canada.
During the second semester the team won first place at Harvard Nationals in Boston, and won a number of individual awards at the World Model United Nations conference in The Hague, Netherlands. My friend George LeMeur and I won a diplomacy award in the World Trade Organization commmittee at the Worlds conference, representing South Africa. The team who travelled to the Netherlands is pictured above.
For those unfamiliar with the program, Model United Nations competitions allow students (and cadets...) from colleges across the world to debate international issues while representing foreign countries in simulated UN committee sessions.
