This year, Bishop England sent 8 students from the Model UN Club to represent the school at the 48th Annual Winthrop University Model United Nations Conference in Rock Hill, SC, from March 20 to 22.

Our students brought home three awards from the conference, where more than 20 teams from around the state and region competed over three days.

Bishop England students were tasked with representing two countries, Gabon in West Africa and Belarus in Eastern Europe, in the various committees simulating the actual United Nations forum. 

Catherine Grizzle and Matthew Young, seniors, won individual Distinguished Delegate awards for representing Gabon on the Legal Committee and the Security Council, respectively. 

BE’s entire Gabon delegation, including Catherine Grizzle, Matthew Young, Conner Sennott, Dylan Cedeño, and Elizabeth Storey, won the Geoffrey Bruce Award, an honor “given to the high school delegation which best displays the personality and motivations associated with their country, by being the delegation most in character. They must be knowledgeable both in the needs of their country and the means by which their country would achieve these goals, who they would associate with, and what factors would turn their country against a resolution.”