Of the six awards brought home by KSU, five were committee awards. Photo credit: Model NATO Team<\/p>\n
KSUs Model NATO team won six awards at the 2017 International Model NATO Conference, held in Washington D.C. from Feb. 14-19. <\/p>\n
Of the six awards brought home by KSU, five were committee awards. The other was the Overall Outstanding Delegation Award, which was won by only four teams at the conference. <\/p>\n
Twenty colleges and universities competed from across the United States, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Canada. Although some schools attended with more than one team, each team represented a different member nation of NATO. Students acted as delegates, defending their nations policies. <\/p>\n
The Model NATO conference simulates a real meeting of NATO officials, said Brook Doss, a senior journalism major and the team leader for KSU. It focuses on diplomacy and small group negotiation to solve real world problems, as well as a crisis simulation that is built by the faculty. <\/p>\n
Doss explained that, this year, the topic forced students to focus on counter-terrorism and cyber security. <\/p>\n
[The teams] draft language that eventually becomes a resolution and goes into a final communique that is sent to the real NATO in Brussels, Doss explained. <\/p>\n
KSUs nine-student team represented the Czech Republic, and faculty adviser and professor Stephen McKelvey was proud of the teams performance. <\/p>\n
This was the best team we have had in decades, McKelvey said. I could not have asked for a better team. <\/p>\n
As a part of the conference, the students went to the Embassy of the Czech Republic. The team was briefed by the First Secretary of the Embassy and the Minister-Counselor of the Embassy about Czech policy within NATO. This allowed the students to further solidify their stance in regards to the Czech Republics positions. <\/p>\n
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