The Franklin High School Model UN Club started its 2005-2006 campaign off with a bang.  The school was named Distinguished Large School at the Rutgers University Model UN Conference.  This marks the school’s first group recognition in the twelve years FHS has been attending the conference.  The awards are given out to schools based on the percentage of “points” scored in relation to the number of students attending.  So a school that wins 2 awards but has only six students attending does proportionally better than a school that brings home 3 awards out of 35 students. 

Franklin has always taken a large number of students, and by shear nature of the club never was able to generate enough points to qualify for delegation recognition…UNTIL this week.  Our school sent sixty-three students to the conference (9 freshmen, 18 sophomores, 16 juniors and 20 seniors) and we received eight total awards. (More points are assigned to the higher level of awards).

The award winners were:

Kane Nerys (11th):  Best Delegate African Union

Sajid Mehmood (12th):  Best Delegate World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body

Martin Rafla and Valentyn Boginskey (12th): Best Delegate Disarmament and Security Council

Jazear Brooks (11th):  Outstanding Delegate United Nations Capital Development Fund

Maxwell Pollock and Wills Kinsley (12th):  Distinguished Delegate United Nations Environmental Programme

Sonali Patel (12th):  Position Paper Award Security Council

Michael Hampton and Kevin Song (11th):  Position Paper Award Economic and Financial Committee

Georgia Kinsely and Nadia Shaikh (9th):  Position Paper Award United Nations High Commission on Human Rights.

Our next trip is scheduled for late-January to Univ of Pennsylvania, here is hoping we can bring home another trophy.

Proudly,

Lou Guglielmo

Model UN Advisor