{"id":9905,"date":"2024-04-08T09:46:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:46:31","slug":"model-tigers-at-the-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2024\/04\/08\/model-tigers-at-the-united-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Tigers at the United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Mizzou_Model_UN-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mizzou_Model_UN-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"(Front row, left to right) Carly Gordon, Trey Trapani, Antonio Contreras, Makayla Mayhew, Aidan Pittman, Diyora Rakhmonova, Jaden Reed \n(Back row, left to right) John \u201cTommy\u201d Jackson, Maggie Funston, Matt Jackson, Lucas Warren, Jalen Frazier, Gwen Blevins, Amelie Vogt \" class=\"wp-image-9906\" style=\"width:263px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(<em>Front row, left to right) Carly Gordon, Trey Trapani, Antonio Contreras, Makayla Mayhew, Aidan Pittman, Diyora Rakhmonova, Jaden Reed<\/em>&nbsp;<br>(<em>Back row, left to right) John \u201cTommy\u201d Jackson, Maggie Funston, Matt Jackson, Lucas Warren, Jalen Frazier, Gwen Blevins, Amelie Vogt<\/em>&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou Model UN made quite an impact at the 2024 National Model UN Conference in New York City. Our students were recognized as an Outstanding Delegation \u2013 the conference\u2019s highest honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 14 Mizzou team members prepared for about three months to effectively represent their assigned country, Namibia. The weeklong conference included schools from around the world and ended at the General Assembly building of the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all our participants, including Mizzou Model UN President Maggie Funston and Head Delegates Gwen Blevins and Trey Trapani. I also want to recognize Curators\u2019 Distinguished Teaching Professor Bill Horner for his support of the delegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou prepares students to lead our state, country \u2013 and even the United Nations. We\u2019re so proud of the team\u2019s accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mizzou Model UN made quite an impact at the 2024 National Model UN Conference in New York City. Our students were recognized as an Outstanding Delegation \u2013 the conference\u2019s highest honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}