Model United Nation’s team keeps winning tradition
Belen's Model United Nation's team began the year with a solid victory in Gainesville at the Gator Model United Nations Conference.
Facing teams from as far away as Chicago, Belen's team bested delegations much larger than its own and established itself as on of the top programs in the state.
The group completed its competitive year, 2016-2017, in typical winning fashion. During the weekend of March 25 the team gathered numerous individual awards and the overall highest award of "Best Delegation" at the prestigious Florida International University conference- the third straight year Belen has taken that top award. FIU is currently ranked 2nd nationally as a Model UN institution. The typical student delegate puts in several days of practice prior to the conference, including writing multi-page position papers. This year has been tremendously rewarding because the long hours of research and rhetoric have paid off.
Not to rest on its laurels, the team will be hosting its own conference March 31- April 1 for the first time in school history. This means that Belen students will oversee various types of political and/or diplomatic crisis and their respective resolutions. Belen will host nearly 70 invitees from seven different local schools. Competing students will be judged on their ability to interact as part of a committee of diplomats representing rival nations. We would not be able to attempt such an undertaking if we were not recognized as one of the best Model UN programs in the state. Congratulations to the team for having earned a well-deserved distinction.
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
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500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.