~:[CH3 - Day 145]:~ Passing the Torch

~:[CH3 - Day 145]:~ Passing the Torch

One of the coolest things about this year's UCIMUN group from Cerritos was the sibling pairs that we had. We had four freshman-senior combos and two sophomore-senior combos with one of the seniors NEVER being in MUN before. Out of the six, four got awards and two of those four were best delegates as we gaveled in four of the eight committees! It's great to see students pass the torch to their younger siblings and classmates. The development and growth of these students is the best thing about this program and while the awards are a great incentive for the students, what they learn and how they grow is the greatest prize. Since there were only eight committees, the competition was very tough and we had loaded our own committees with a number of previous gavel winners going head-to-head. We normally don't bring as many students as we did and normally not a pretty solid core group as we had this weekend. We had 38 students collect awards across only eight committee, six of which were normal sized. This delegation award was cool since it's our only conference where we had all four grade levels attending! Our delegation from Nationals was from our juniors, from Davis our sophomores and from Berkeley our seniors/sophomores. This group definitely raised the bar and made me proud. Way to go team! I'm glad you represented our school well, especially at my alma mater! Zot Zot Zot!