{"id":45836,"date":"2026-06-05T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=45836"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:31:19","slug":"model-un-students-embrace-new-challenges-2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/model-un-students-embrace-new-challenges-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Model UN Students Embrace New Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, there has been a greater focus on developing students&#8217; Model UN skills, and it&#8217;s been rewarding to see so many willing to tackle new challenges. In May, numerous MLC School teams of two participated in the heats of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/unyouth.org.au\/program\/evatt-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSW Evatt Model United Nations Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Evatt Competition is Australia&#8217;s largest Model United Nations program. Run by UN Youth Australia, it is a negotiation and diplomacy tournament for high school students in Year 9 to Year 12. Teams represent one of the 15 member states of the UN Security Council. Named after Dr. H.V. Evatt, an Australian jurist and former President of the UN General Assembly, the competition aims to inspire young people to become active global citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, several teams from Year 9 to Year 12 attended the Heats held at the UTS campus. Our Model UN coach, <strong>Sarinna Cai<\/strong> (2025), served as one of the judges and managed to capture some photos of our students in action. Congratulations to our Year 12 team, <strong>Jordan Vo<\/strong> and <strong>Yoyo Wu,<\/strong> who advanced to the Semi Finals among more than 900 students from across Australia competing in the heats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:arowe@mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au\"><em><strong>\u2013 Dr Andrea Rowe<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\nOratory Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, there has been a greater focus on developing students&#8217; Model UN skills, and it&#8217;s been rewarding to see so many willing to tackle new challenges. In May, numerous MLC School teams of two participated in the heats of the 2026 NSW Evatt Model United Nations Competition. The Evatt Competition is Australia&#8217;s largest Model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[15],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-45836","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-co-curricular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/45836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=45836"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=45836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}