CADETS WIN HARVARD NATIONAL MODEL UN CHAMPIONSHIPS – Feb. 17, 2009
The win marks the third National Championships for West Point in the past five years.
Competing against more then 3000 students from around the world, representing over 150 universities, West Point cadets won Best Small Delegation. Of the 13 cadets competing, eight brought home personal awards; the cadets took awards in five of the eight committees that West Point was represented in.
True to the mission of the United Nations as declared in its 1945 charter, Harvard National Model United Nation serves as a forum in which students from colleges and universities around the world can meet to discuss the greatest challenges facing the world today, in fields ranging from international peace and security to economic and social progress and human rights. In this spirit, the goal of HNMUN is to begin a process whereby constructive debate today can lead to solutions tomorrow.
About West Point
West Point, The U.S. Military Academy, is a four-year co-educational federal undergraduate liberal arts college located 50 miles north of New York City. The world's preeminent leader development institution, it was founded in 1802 as America's first college of engineering. Its mission remains constant-to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army. For more information, go to www.westpoint.edu