Village Students Shine at the Houston Area MUN Conference

On Thursday, January 23rd and Friday, January 24th, VHSMUN attended the Houston Area MUN with over 1100 delegates from Houston and across Texas.We had our largest delegation of recognized students with a total of 14 distinctions and a scholarship, the most of any attending school at the conference. Students were awarded in the following committees:

In the General Assembly Plenary-

Best Position Paper to Kahani Malhotra

Best Delegate to Akbarali Aziz

Honorable Mention to Bram Satter

Social, Cultural and Humanitarian Committee 1-

Honorable Mention to Maria Morkas

Social, Cultural and Humanitarian Committee 2-

Honorable Mention to Caroline Hsu

Outstanding Delegate to Alexander Ilacqua

Special Political and Decolonization Committee-

Honorable Mention to Yazan Binnasser 

UNHRC

Best Position Paper to Anna Zhu

Best Delegate to Pavithr Goli

UN Development Program

Best Delegate to Puneetha Goli

World Health Organization

Honorable Mention to Sourav Banerjee

Italian Crisis Committee

Best Delegate to Omar Imtiaz

Creative Crisis: DC Young Justice

Best Delegate to Dhruv Saligram

Latin American Crises and Revolutions:

Anirudh Srinivasan

The 1911 Andrea Flynn Scholarship was awarded to the amazing Puneetha Goli, who has been an essential part of the VHSMU leadership team. Puneetha organized the Sustainability Solutions Conference alongside the Houston World Affairs Council in September of 2019, and her voice is always a distinguished and relevant model for her peers. This will be her last year attending the Houston Area MUN, and I will truly miss hearing Puneetha speak at these conferences. Leyah Mathew, our VHSMUN secretary general, has been fearlessly leading one of Village's largest model UNs to date, and were it not for her model diplomacy and precise speaking skills, VHSMUN would not be where it is today. Congratulations to all participants, we are beaming with pride for all of your efforts and hard work.