College News and Awards

Model UN Team Continues Winning

California State University, Chico Model United Nations delegation of the Political Science Department won an Outstanding Position Paper Award and the second level Distinguished Performance Award at the National Model United Nations Conference held in New York City, April 6-10, 2004. Approximately 3,000 students from more than 200 colleges located in 23 different countries attended the conference. The Chico delegation represented the Russian Federation. It was the only representative of a "Big Five" country (United States, United Kingdom, France, China, and the Russian Federation) to win an award. Big Five countries are assigned based on prior high performance. The Chico delegation has won Outstanding Position Paper awards every year for the five years and six countries it has represented. Outstanding Position Paper awards are given to only 8 percent of delegations. Outstanding Performance awards are given to about 8 percent of delegations; Distinguished Performance awards are given to another 8 percent. In addition to the Outstanding Position papers, the Chico delegation has won three outstanding and three distinguished presentation awards every year for the five years it has participated.

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