Young diplomats: Highland Park High School has won the highest honor twice in one year at different Model United Nations conferences.
The 30 Highland Park students who participated last fall in the simulated UN conferences in Boston met again this spring in New York with students from 200 to 300 schools worldwide and debated issues on everything from war crimes to world health, said Myra Loris, a social studies teacher.
The participating schools were assigned different countries (in Highland Park’s case Poland, Germany and Egypt) and developed positions on those countries’ views about particular issues. Their object was to persuade their peers to accept certain rationales they had developed on the issues, Loris said. (For example, they developed evidence, tried and convicted people of Bosnian war crimes.) The Highland Park team won Best Delegation at both conferences.
