Our internationally recognized Model United Nations team continued its winning streak this past weekend in Southern California at the 2015 UC Irvine Model UN Conference.  

Representing China, Germany, and Benin, our Grizzlies won multiple awards in research and debate at their final conference of the year.

Research and writing awards went to president Meriem Messaoudi, Jae Lee, Una Karanovic, Cindy Melendez, Jacob Gieger, Erika Lee, Anthony Lee, Jasmine Perez, Sadie Sanchez, and Cindy Pham.

Meriem Messaoudi, Jae Lee, Sadie Sanchez, and Jasmine Perez each earned commendations for excellent performance in committee.

Michael Lehavi earned an "Outstanding Delegate" award, representing China in the Security Council.

The team of 21 students earned their third straight "Best Delegation" award at the conference in the small class division, solidifying their status as one of the top Model UN teams in the nation.

To view our photo gallery of the conference, click here.

3,800 students.  120 high schools from all over the world.  When Spring Valley's Model UN team arrived in New York City at the 2015 National High School Model UN Conference (March 4 - 7, 2015), it appeared the team, comprised of junior and seniors, had met their match.  

After six months of research and preparation, the 18 delegates of SVHS represented the African nation of Gabon in eleven UN-style committees for four days of intense debate and diplomacy.

At the closing ceremonies, held in the General Assembly hall of the UN headquarters, the Spring Valley team was recognized with the "Award of Merit" for outstanding performance as a delegation.  The distinction places them among the top performing Model UN programs in the nation.

For additional information on the 2015 NHSMUN conference, see Best Delegate's article.

To view photos of the trip, view our NHSMUN 2015 gallery.

On a sunny Saturday, February 21st, over 200 students (in business suits) representing 10 Nevada and Utah high schools converged on the beautiful campus of Spring Valley High School to participate in the second annual Las Vegas Model UN Conference.

The conference featured five UN style committees with over 70 nations debating 10 different topics of international relevance.

Fourteen of Spring Valley High School's junior and senior "varsity" MUNers served as the secretariat, led by secretary-general Meriem Messaoudi.  The conference included a UN style General Assembly, World Health Organization, Economic and Social Council, Security Council and a UN Human Rights Council, added this year due to 25% growth in participation.

After a full day of debate, closing ceremonies included recognition of excellence in individual and school participation.  For the second year in a row, Silverado High School was awarded Best Delegation in the small category. Advanced Technologies Academy took home the award for Medium Delegation while Spring Valley once again defended their title as Best Large Delegation.

Spring Valley's Michael Lehavi won the coveted gavel and was named Best Delegate in the UN Human Rights Council.  Meanwhile, Hannah Tran, Cindy Melendez, and Anthony Lee received Outstanding awards.  Commendations were awarded to Jensen Roper, Jonathan Daniels, Taevian Jacobs, Skye Xu, Jae Lee, Jacob Geiger, Madison Hotze, and Ryan Hines.

Research awards were bestowed on Jensen Roper, Michael Lehavi, Jonathan Daniels, Hannah Tran, Cindy Melendez, and Skye Xu.

A special thanks to all who made this event possible.

To view our photo gallery of LVMUN II, click the following link:  LVMUN II

Over the Veteran's Day weekend, 26 of Spring Valley's Model United Nations students traveled to Los Angeles for one of the most competitive high school conferences in the western United States, BruinMUN at UCLA. 

Representing Australia, Togo, and Slovenia in 13 committees, our Grizzlies held their own while competing against over 1,500 students from 55 different high schools.

Michael Lehavi and Aleta Dignard-Fung won honorable mentions for outstanding representation of Australia in the 6th Legal Committee.

Meriem Messoudi, representing Australia in the highly competitive Security Council Crisis Committee won "Outstanding Delegate" after helping forge solutions on the topics of international terrorism and Crimea.

Congratulations to all for another successful conference!

Click here to view our photo album from BruinMUN 2014.

Spring Valley High School's award winning Model UN team visited Southern California over Memorial Day weekend to compete in the 22nd Annual UC Irvine Model United Nations Conference.

Our students represented France, South Korea, Jordan, and Haiti in eight UN committees which included over 600 other high school students from 25 high schools.

Cindy Rivera, Tyler Teresi, Meriem Messoudi, Cody Clarke, and Vijittra Puckdee each took home research awards for excellence in research and writing.

Cody Clarke, Meseret Ambachew, Isaiah Reyes, and Nathan Brantley earned Commendations for distinguished performance in their committees.

Meriem Messaoudi, Aron Csiki, and Matthew Mondschein earned "Outstanding Delegate" awards in their committees.

Lindsay Richey, representing France in the UN Environment Committee, won the gavel and was named "Best Delegate."

Capping off a winning season, our team of 31 students won a "Best Delegation" award in its class (for the second consecutive year at UCI) based on the highest overall number of individual awards earned.

Spring Valley High School Model UN would like to give special thanks to UC Irvine's MUN program for serving as our mentor university for the past three years and visiting Spring Valley annually to support our students as part of their Outreach Program.

Visit our photo gallery of UCIMUN 2014

Eight of Spring Valley's finest Model UN students faced 98 other high schools this past weekend for the most prestigious and competitive Model UN conference in the western United States: The 62nd Annual Session of Berkeley Model UN (BMUN), held on the UC Berkeley Campus.

The three-day conference featured over 1,500 students in 20 committees debating a broad range of world affairs topics with our Spring Valley students representing Columbia and South Korea.

The competition was fierce, but our Grizzly MUNers had an outstanding debut:

Cindy Rivera and Aron Csiki won Research Awards
Mackenzie Leavitt and Samantha Wolk won Commendation Awards
and Tyler Teresi and Mereim Messaoudi won Best Delegate Awards

At the closing ceremonies, our school won "Best New School" for outstanding overall team performance.  Special thanks to Matthew Mondschein and Katherine Reed for contributing to the team's big win!

Visit our Photo Gallery of Berkeley MUN

Spring Valley High School Model UN made history on Saturday, February 22nd by hosting the first high school Model UN conference in Southern Nevada.

Nine high schools and a grand total of 180 students representing 70 different UN member nations in four committees met on the campus of Spring Valley High School for a full day of debate, resolution writing, diplomacy, and academic competition.  

Twelve of Spring Valley varsity Model UN students and their two advisors worked for six months to plan, prepare, and manage the conference.  Despite the fact that Model UN is a new phenomenon in Southern Nevada, Palo Verde High School, Silverado High School, Southwest Career & Technical Academy, Advanced Technologies Academy, CSN High School, and Liberty High School each formed groups of excited and well-prepared students to participate.

Faith Lutheran High School, Wasatch Academy (coming all the way from Utah), and Spring Valley's novice and intermediate Model UN group also competed at the event.

At the day's closing ceremonies, after committee chairs awarded special recognition to 32 individual delegates, Secretary General Tyler Teresi announced the three "Best Delegation" awards which went to Silverado High School, Faith Lutheran High School MUN, and Spring Valley High School.

Conference organizers were delighted with the success of LVMUN I and look forward to planning next year's event.

Visit our Photo Gallery of Spring Valley HS Model UN students at LVMUN I

Now in its 13th year, the Paris Model United Nations conference boasted 900 students from 62 high schools representing nearly every continent in the world for a three-day academic simulation of the real United Nations.  

This year was the third visit for Spring Valley, one of only two US schools to participate at the conference this year, representing the countries of China and Kenya in nine different committees, from the General Assembly to the Security Council.

Prior to the conference, seniors Samantha Wolk and Virginia Gallagher were accepted as conference officers; Wolk was selected as Vice President of the International Court of Justice and Gallagher held the position of Press Officer.

The 15 Spring Valley High School students made to trip to France one week in advance to participate in an exchange program with their sister high school, Lycee Jean Jaures in the city of Reims, whose students also participate at the Paris Model UN conference.  

Congratulations to our students who were a credit to our school, city, state, and nation!


Visit our Photo Gallery of our trip to Paris and Reims 

On Halloween night, 26 of our Spring Valley High School Model UN students traveled by bus to Provo, Utah to participate in the 24th annual Brigham Young University Model UN Conference held on November 1st.

In addition to seven individual research awards and four outstanding delegate awards, the teams representing Ireland and Russia were recognized with "distinguished" and "outstanding delegation" awards respectively.

Special congratulations go to Aron Csiki and Meriem Messaoudi, who were named outstanding delegates in each of their committees, and to Cindy Rivera and Kevin Vargas, who dominated the all Spanish-speaking Organization of American States while representing Cuba.

2013 marks the second year that Spring Valley MUN was awarded the highest overall delegation award at the BYU conference, honoring the eight students who represented the Russian Federation.  

Visit our photo gallery of the conference to see our students in action.