{"id":18054,"date":"2016-03-31T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=18054"},"modified":"2016-03-31T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T20:06:57","slug":"baylor-model-un-team-wins-top-honor-at-international-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/03\/baylor-model-un-team-wins-top-honor-at-international-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor Model UN team wins top honor at international competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Model<\/p>\n

Baylor\u2019s Model United Nations<\/a> team proved itself to be the top superpower at the\u00a0National Model United Nations<\/a> competition held earlier this month in New York City.<\/p>\n

Fourteen Baylor students (led by Dr. Rebecca Flavin, faculty advisor) were among the 5,000+ student participants who traveled to NYC from around the world for this competition.\u00a0The Baylor contingent\u00a0was assigned to represent Vietnam for the conference, with students role-playing a United Nations-like set-up to talk through such wide-ranging issues as organized crime, renewable energy, cybersecurity, sustainable forests, and terrorism.<\/p>\n

When all was said and done, the Baylor team was named overall Outstanding Delegation — the conference\u2019s highest honor! Four of the 14 students —\u00a0Kate Farley, Megan Rollag, Connor Burns and Joe Yope — were also honored with the\u00a0competition’s\u00a0highest individual award.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Baylor Model UN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baylor\u2019s Model United Nations team proved itself to be the top superpower at the\u00a0National Model United Nations competition held earlier this month in New York City. Fourteen Baylor students (led by Dr. Rebecca Flavin, faculty advisor) were among the 5,000+ student participants who traveled to NYC from around the world for this competition.\u00a0The Baylor contingent\u00a0was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}