We’re excited to announce Beaver has won the highly-coveted Best Delegation Award at the Annual Boston Invitational Model United Nations Conference – for the second year in a row! In addition, nine of the 12 Beaver students who attended also won individual awards.
Braving the snowstorm this past Friday, our students – advised by Sumaya Ibourk – attend the three-day conference, which features more than 70 schools and 1,500 students. They problem-solved, collaborated, and wrote resolutions and directives on a variety of topics, including:
- The Situation in Refugee Camps
- Misappropriation of Humanitarian Aid
- US-Iran Nuclear Negotiations-US delegation
- Action Plan for Greece and the European Migrant Crisis
- Censorship of the Media and Social Media
- The Evolution of Journalism (Beaver represented Fox News)
In addition, students also participated in historical and crisis committees, from FBI 1970s to the Thailand Coup D’Etat to the Russo-Japanese War.
The 12 student delegates were: Seamus Buckley ’19, Ronan O’Callaghan ’19, Cam Ventura ’19, Aidan Geary ’18, Ben Lehv ’18, Ryan McClennen ’18, Drew Siegal ’18, Zack Taylor ’18, Jerome Edwards ’17, Jessica Ainooson ’16, Evan Feldberg-Bannatyne ’16, and Pablo Fiori ’16.
THE DETAILS: students with their committee and country, or person they represented
Specialized committees:
- Zack Taylor, NGO Forum, Wikimedia Foundation (watch video)
- Ronan O’Callaghan, Press Corps, Fox News (watch video)
- Jessica Ainooson, Convention Nationale, Jean-Paul Marat (Girondist)
- Ryan McClennen, UN Security Council, United States of America
- Cam Ventura, US-Iran, Chairman Howard McKeon (R)
- Seamus Buckley, European Investment Bank, Muriel Lacoue-Labarthe, France
Crisis committees:
- Evan Feldberg-Bannatyne, Thailand Coup d’Etat: Prime Minister of Thailand and Head of National Council for Peace and Order, General Prayut Chan o-chah
- Drew Siegal, FBI 1970s, Clarence M. Kelley: National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, FBI National Academy Review Committee
- Ben Lehv, Simon Bolivar, José Antonio Páez: Powerful Caudillo leader
- Aidan Geary, Spanish Royal Court, Antonio D Estrada: Marshall
- Jerome Edwards, JCC Russia, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev: Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, Viceroy of the Russian Far East, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Russian Forces at Port Arthur and in Manchuria
- Pablo Fiori, JCC Japan, Oyama Iwao: Field Marshal and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forces in Manchuria
Student awards:
- Seamus Buckley ’19: Best Delegate
- Zack Taylor ’18: Best Delegate
- Evan Feldberg-Bannatyne ’16: Outstanding Delegate
- Jessica Ainooson ’16: Outstanding Delegate
- Pablo Fiori ’16: Honorable Mention
- Ryan McClennen ’18: Outstanding Delegate
- Jerome Edwards ’17: Honorable Mention
- Aidan Geary ’18: Honorable Mention
- Drew Siegal ’18: Honorable Mention
Congratulations to all the students who worked tirelessly the past few weeks to prepare for this conference! See more photos from the conference on the BVR Facebook page and read about last year’s conference here.