Coming home from a weekend in North Carolina, the Model United Nations (MUN) team won Best Large School, two gavels and other awards for individual delegates.
These achievements took place at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Conference from April 1 to 3.
Juniors Brian Potter and Karthik Kumarappan won a gavel, the highest award for a delegate, while representing Portugal in the General Assembly Committee.
Junior Bruce Ferguson also won a gavel for representing Yemen in the Interpol Committee.
Senior Mike Breger was awarded an Honorable Mention for his representation of Chinese Taipei in the World Trade Organization Committee. Breger added that the Best Large School award was a “huge honor.”
“We were counted as a large school which is rare for Marshall,” Kumarappan said.
“We usually get some kind of award,” Breger said. “But I don’t think we’ve gotten Best Large School in a while. We had a lot of really powerful individual awards who won awards of some denomination.”
According to senior Philip Grudier, this is the second Best Large School that the team has won this year. The other, he said, was at the Gar-Field Senior High School IB Mid-Atlantic MUN Conference in January.
Grudier, who also won an Honorable Mention at UNC, said that the team this year has “been very strong … Every individual person is a part of the team and the team as a whole does very well.”
The UNC Conference was the last MUN for Grudier and Breger as well as most of the other seniors on the team.
Grudier agreed with Kumarappan, saying that the conference made up for the “sad feelings” that were experienced after the last conference … [in a] four year career is a bit of a sad thing.”